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Header Slides

Today's header slides are of a boat moored near Eoligarry jetty near the northern end of the island of Barra in the Western Isles; and one of the magnificent painted ceilings on view at Delgatie Castle in Aberdeenshire.

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In Focus

Dunfermline Abbey & Palace Dunfermline Abbey can trace its roots back to 1070. That was when King Malcolm III married Queen Margaret in a ceremony in a church at Dunfermline. She decided to set up a religious community here, bringing in Benedictine monks from Canterbury to form its core. In 1587 James VI took control of the remaining assets of the Abbey, and in 1589 he granted the Abbey buildings to his wife, Queen Anne, Anne of Denmark, for use as a palace. ( More ...)

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On This Day

14 January 1529: After a long legal dispute, Euphemia Leslie secures her position as Prioress of Elcho near Perth.

14 January 1831: The death in Edinburgh of Henry Mackenzie, a novelist and a leading member of the city's literary scene in the decades either side of 1800.

14 January 1872: The death of Greyfriars Bobby, the Skye Terrier who is said to have spent 14 years tending his master's grave in Greyfriars kirkyard in Edinburgh.

15 January 1968: A hurricane strikes Strathclyde leaving 2,000 people homeless and killing 20.

Featured Book

Book Cover Bloody Orkney by Ken Lussey (29 June 2021). Bloody Orkney is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. It’s November 1942. Bob Sutherland, Monique Dubois and the Military Intelligence 11 team fly in to review security in Orkney, home to one of the most important and most heavily defended naval anchorages in the world. But an unidentified body has been found. It becomes clear that powerful men have things they’d rather keep hidden and MI11’s arrival threatens the status quo. Then Bob stumbles over a ghost from his past and things get far too personal.
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Scottish Resources

English Borders Index South Central Index Edinburgh Index Fife Index West Central Index Argyll Index Glasgow & Stirling Index Western Isles Index Western Isles Index West Highlands Index Argyll Index East Lothian Index Angus Index West Central Index South-West Index North Central Index Aberdeenshire Index Sutherland Index Caithness Index Orkney Index Shetland Index