A new series of stamps by the Royal Mail have been issued, depicting the Stewart monarchs who ruled Scotland between 1406 and 1603, the year of the Union of the Crowns. The series starts with James I (1406-1437) and stops at James VI (1567-1603) who went on the become the king of England, uniting to […]
Sir James Whyte Black, inventor of beta-blocker drugs has died at the age of 85. His family made the announcement yesterday that he passed away after a long illness. Born in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, in 1924, Black was the fourth son of five of a Baptist family. He was raised and educated in Fife, first attending […]
Kay Ure was stranded for 30 days, kept away from her husband John and her home due to the severe winter snow and storms, and now a Hollywood movie company, Furst Films, has offered the Sutherland couple £40,000 for the rights to their story. On the 19th of December Kay Ure left her home in […]
The world record for the most kilted skiers and snowboarders to go down a piste has been set by more than 200 people on CairnGorm Mountain near Aviemore. All involved, a total of 235, skied down in a line from the Ptarmigan Top Station on the mountain, with two pipers and a drummer leading the […]
On the 4th of March, two of the ScotClans team (Amanda and Donald) went on a resource finding trip down and around the south west of Scotland. We took in a number of castles and places of interest along the way, as well as enjoying some beautiful scenery. When we set off from Edinburgh it […]
By the middle of the sixteenth century the Border Reivers had a strangle hold on the lands on each side of the English Scottish Border. None more so than the Elliots and Armstrongs of Liddesdale. Murder, theft, arson, blackmail and feud were the canker of the Border Marches. Whatever resources, initiatives or amendments to the […]
Atlantic Fast Food, in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire has been announced as the UK’s best Fish and Chip shop at a ceremony in London. Giovanni Fionda, the shops owner, was in London with his parents, who had ran the shop for many years, to accept the award. It’s the third time in as many years that a […]
With temperatures plumetting, a low of -22°C is expected, with some saying that parts of Scotland will be as cold as the South Pole. However, it is currently mid-summer for the southern hemisphere, and -22°C is probably considered as balmy by the penguins. The coldest temperature ever recorded in the UK was -27.2°C on the […]
On the 28th of December a man, dressed in a full Scottish Highland outfit, purchased what was believed to have been an empty record box for £3.99 in an Edinburgh Oxfam shop, but it turned out it was filled with the charity stores rarest and most expensive LPs. The rare vinyl records are estimated to […]
By 1593 the feud that had existed between the Maxwells and the Johnstones, the two most powerful families in south-west Scotland, was to reach its zenith. The feud was long-standing as it had existed for over a century. Whilst the culmination of the feud would result in the Battle of Dryfe Sands which has already […]
