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This Land Ain’t Your Land (part 2)
Who owns the other 85% of British real estate? A group of families, about 189,000 of them, own about...
This Land Ain’t Your Land (Part 1)
The British Isles are comprised of 60 million acres of real estate. Who owns it all? The short is we...
The Stone of Who?
The stone of Destiny, on which the ancient Gaelic kings were crowned, was named ‘Scone’ after it...
Gone With the Windmills: the story of South Uist
South Uist, land of prehistoric mummies and a thousand years of human occupation, is now part of a...
Stone Circles of Scotland
Long before the first stone circle was built, and the Achara Stone erected near Keil Hill (see The...
Golf: The Game of Kings
Of all the inventions Scotland lays claim to, golf (or Gowf as the Scottish used to call it) has to...
The Cairngorms
The Cairngorms National Park in the middle of the Scottish Highlands is twice the size of the Lake a...
BANNOCKBURN Robert Burns (1759-1796)
2014 is the 700th year of the battle of Bannockburn where Robert the Bruce fought Edward II and won...
Doune Castle: History, Royal Visitors & Silver Screen
Photo by Alasdair / CC BY 2.0 Located close to the village of Doune, near to the city of and...