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Caerlaverock Castle Hit By History Bug At Spectacular Jousting

by Admin Added 7 years ago 633 Views / 0 Likes

Symptoms of the History Bug now include the sound of thundering hooves and the clashing of steel. That’s what you’ll get at our jousting tournament at Caerlaverock Castle, the medieval stronghold on the Solway Shore where noble knights will battle it out
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Border Reivers | Stuff That I Find Interesting

by Admin Added 6 years ago 630 Views / 0 Likes

https://www.patreon.com/Jabzy https://twitter.com/JabzyJoe Music - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjMZjGhrFq_4llVS_x2XJ_w
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Highlands - Episode 1

by Admin Added 9 years ago 620 Views / 0 Likes

John Michie begins his cross country journey at a reconstructed 17th century township in the Highland Folk Museum in Newtonmore in the Cairngorms and visits Castle Urquhart on the banks of Scotland's most famous loch, Loch Ness, to discover what life was
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Battle Of St Valery 70th Anniversary Tribute.wmv

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This video is a tribute to all those killed or captured at the Battle of Saint Valery in 1940. In order to be able to evacuate at Dunkirk the 51st Highland Division were ordered to fight a reaguard action drawing Rommel's troops down to St Valery En Caux
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New Research Finds Astronomical Connection To Scotland's Stone Circle

by Admin Added 6 years ago 607 Views / 0 Likes

University of Adelaide research has for the first time statistically proven that the earliest standing stone monuments of Britain, the great circles, were constructed specifically in line with the movements of the Sun and Moon, 5000 years ago.http://proxy
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Swords And Stairs At The Wallace Monument

by Admin Added 7 years ago 606 Views / 0 Likes

For Josh, wherein I bore you with (mostly incorrect) history and (wannabe/pseudo) intellectual conjecture. Featuring the lovely Lex, who's videos are far shorter, far more instructive and far less boring: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Xr4liwa8fFyT53y
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Crime Scene Scotland 101

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Scotland: Rome's Final Frontier (BBC)

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Were the ancient Scottish tribes too much for the Roman Empire? Or was Scotland simply not worth conquering? Archaeologist Dr Fraser Hunter looks back on three centuries of contact and conflict with the Roman invaders. The first Tay Bridge, the first depi
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The Reivers - Making Of The Borders Alistair Moffat

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The entire 6 part series as seen on ITV Border. From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a consequence of
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The Border Reivers

by Admin Added 6 years ago 598 Views / 0 Likes

A short extract from Jim Webb's documentary - 'Born Fighting - How the Scots-Irish Shaped America' about the culture of the Reivers of the borderlands between Scotland & England, many of whom were exiled to Ulster in King James' Plantation. Please visit:
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History Repeating? Land Grabs And The Highland Clearances

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200 years ago thousands of small holder farmers were forcibly evicted from their land in Sutherland during the Highland Clearances. Two centuries on, there are clear parallels to the wave of land grabs taking place across the developing world. Sign up to
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Auld Argylls

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