... worked with those in the piping fraternity in Canada and Scotland to ensure that his wish of bequeathing the instrument would come true. ... of Campbeltown. In an interview reported on BBC Scotland Calum said: "It just makes you think how lucky you are to learn an ...
Douglas MacQueen - Dec 30 2016 - 3:49pm - 0 comments
... work, from 1900 she was an active campaigner for suffrage in Scotland. Elsie Inglis, who was already honorary secretary of the Edinburgh ... St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh on 29 November. Outside of Scotland she is also particularly remembered in Serbia where she worked with ...
Douglas MacQueen - Nov 15 2017 - 2:06pm
... our understanding of the early histories of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man……When using these materials it is always ... to record the pre-Christian traditions of Ireland and Scotland on the one hand and their religious hostility to those ...
Emmett McIntyre - Aug 4 2017 - 4:01pm
... an Act of the British Parliament which came into effect in Scotland on 1 August 1746 in an attempt to crush the Scottish Clan system and ...
Douglas MacQueen - Sep 21 2016 - 1:29pm - 0 comments
... (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann), the capital city of Scotland (Alba) is preparing to celebrate Robert Louis Stevenson Day. This is ...
Douglas MacQueen - Nov 6 2016 - 2:23pm - 0 comments
... of the transport of nuclear waste by air from Dounreay in Scotland to the United States is to be highlighted at the Scottish parliament ... last year (link): http://www.bbc.co.uk/…/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-386365… The concerns about the suitability ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jan 16 2017 - 3:13pm - 0 comments
... "constructive discussions". Full report here at the BBC Scotland web site: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ …/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-47088… Seven airports could be affected. ...
Bernard Moffatt - Feb 3 2019 - 4:57pm
... is making a bid to buy the remotest mainland pub in Scotland. It is located in the village of Inverie (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir ...
Douglas MacQueen - Feb 24 2021 - 6:27pm
... from climbers stuck on the sheer North Face of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest mountain (1344m/4409ft), to canoeists stuck in inaccessible ...
Douglas MacQueen - Mar 24 2017 - 11:16am
... Outer Hebrides (Na h-Eileanan Siar) off the west coast of Scotland. Lionacleit in Benbecula is one of more than 20 recorded sites of ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jan 19 2019 - 2:28pm