Clans, Castles and the Scottish Borders

An occasional blog by Alastair Cunningham

Thursday, May 05, 2016

Flodden 1513

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The most recent Scots Heritage Magazine has a piece on the feud between the Montgomery and Cunningham families in the 15th/16th centuries. ...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2016

The Scots who migrated to Bath.

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The mineral-rich hot springs of Bath, Somerset, England still bubble away, as they did in Roman times. As they did in 1687 when Mary of Mod...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

General Hugh Mercer: Jacobite, Doctor, Symbol of the American Revolution

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General Hugh Mercer was a Jacobite who fought at the Battle of Culloden (1746) as a 20 year old surgeon and died as a general in George Was...
Thursday, August 06, 2015

Clashing Cultures

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I watched episode nine of the Outlander TV series last night... where Jamie takes his belt to Claire for her disobedience: "You've ...
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Sunday, July 12, 2015

Gallipoli 1915 and Culloden 1746

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My adopted town of Hawick remembers its dead. In May I visited the Gallipoli peninsular, scene of a disastrous campaign in 1915, where there...
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