Category: castles

Iain The Pict on Scottish Heroes

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Please welcome today my friend Ian Colville.  In a virtual case of It’s a Small World, I ‘met’ Ian, as best as I can remember (Ian will hopefully correct me if I’m wrong), when he stopped by my blog or facebook author page and said hello, having read my book.  On checking out his site, […]

Category:Alexander III, Andrew de Moray, Authors, Chester, Douglasdale, Dumfries, Edward I, Fife, Ian Colville, James Douglas, Places in Scotland, Plantagenets, Politics, Robert Bruce, Robert Bruce the Competitor, Scottish History, Sir William le Hardy
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A Kingdom Without Castles

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It was a hot and muggy July in 1314 at Stirling Castle on the eastern coast of Scotland. Good King Robert, the Bruce, had just won a great victory at Blàr Allt a’ Bhonnaich  or the Battle of Bannockburn, sending England’s Edward II, his pride and his army crushed, home to think again. But at […]

Category:Authors, Bannockburn, Battles, castles, Edward I, Guest Posts, historical fiction, JR Tomlin, Medieval Weapons and Warfare, Robert Bruce, Scottish History, Stirling, Writers
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This Day in Scottish History: The Abdication of John Balliol

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Once again, we have a winner!  An e-mail has been sent out to the winner of the Freedom Hop. ~~   July 10 is a date that was to have great impact on the Scottish Wars of Independence.  Before Robert the Bruce became one of Scotland’s greatest kings, there was John Balliol, king of Scots.  […]

Category:Andrew de Moray, Battles, blog hops, castles, Churches, Dunbar, Dunbar, Edward I, Great Figures of Medieval Scotland, James Douglas, Robert Bruce, Stracathro, William Wallace
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The Green Lady of Stirling Castle

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Stirling is one of Scotland’s great castles, architecturally and historically.  It dates back at least a thousand years, with reports as early as the 1100’s of Alexander I endowing a chapel there.  Standing at a crossroads, it has been the site of many battles, and has associations with such great figures in history as Robert […]

Category:blog hops, castles, Giveaways, Haunted Scotland, Stirling
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