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It was 160 years ago this month, on 9 May 1860, that James Matthew Barrie was born at Kirriemuir in Angus. Remembered today as the ‘Peter Pan man’, a story which has delighted children …
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SKITE v dart, shoot through the air, fall or be driven in a slanting directionSkite is one of these Scots words that defies translation into English. We find it used of the unimpeded slanting …
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Janet Thomson was born in Shotts parish in 1795, the daughter of James Thomson and Mary Brownlee. At the age of seven her family moved to Langloan in Old Monkland parish and she remained there the rest …
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John Goldie was born in Ayr in 1798 and was educated at the academy there. He later went to Paisley and then Glasgow where he owned a china and stoneware shop. In 1819 he joined the volunteer rifle corps …
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In direct violation of the Treaty of Union, English treason law was now used in Scotland, and an English barrister, John Hullock, was sent to conduct the prosecution, despite his having no legal …
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It was two hundred years ago – in April 1820 – that Scotland’s last attempted uprising took place. While you have no doubt heard of the Jacobites, of the 1745, and Bonnie Prince …
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The rumblings of discontent so obvious in Paisley at the end of 1819 had spread to Ayrshire by early 1820. At various places throughout the south western Lowlands, crowds clashed with overbearing …
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Thochts anent the unique role o the Scots leid in Scotlands bygane, and whit wey it haes a gey special role tae play in communicatin Scotlands heritage the day. Scots is Scotlands past Scots can niver …
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smeddum n. spirit, energy, drive, vigorous resourcefulnessSmeddum (2001) is the apt title of recent collection of works by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, a writer whose brief but intense writing career was marked …