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	<title>The World of the Blue Bells Trilogy &#187; Scottish History</title>
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	<description>Discover the world of medieval Scotland</description>
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		<title>Iain The Pict on Scottish Heroes</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2012/03/ian-colville-on-scottish-heroes/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2012/03/ian-colville-on-scottish-heroes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please welcome today my friend Ian Colville.  In a virtual case of It&#8217;s a Small World, I &#8216;met&#8217; Ian, as best as I can remember (Ian will hopefully correct me if I&#8217;m wrong), when he stopped by my blog or facebook author page and said hello, having read my book.  On checking out his site, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Kingdom Without Castles</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/08/a-kingdom-without-castles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217; Bhonnaich  or the Battle of Bannockburn, sending England&#8217;s Edward II, his pride and his army crushed, home to think again. But at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Day in Scottish History: The Abdication of John Balliol</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/07/this-day-in-scottish-history-the-abdication-of-john-balliol/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/07/this-day-in-scottish-history-the-abdication-of-john-balliol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrew de Moray]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, we have a winner!  An e-mail has been sent out to the winner of the Freedom Hop. ~~ &#160; 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&#8217;s greatest kings, there was John Balliol, king of Scots.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Not Quite Battle of Irvine</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/07/the-not-quite-battle-of-irvine/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/07/the-not-quite-battle-of-irvine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bishop Wishart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout history, the story of the American colonists&#8217; fight for freedom has been repeated: small and weak countries fighting against those bigger and larger.  The Scottish Wars of Independence are one such example. Since 1286, Edward I, king of England, had involved himself in Scotland&#8217;s affairs, claiming to be overland of the country.  With the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day, Sir James!</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/02/happy-valentines-day-sir-james/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/02/happy-valentines-day-sir-james/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bannockburn]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/?p=776</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first Valentine&#8217;s Day thoughts, as we know them weren&#8217;t sent until hundreds of years after the death of the Good Sir James.  Nonetheless, it seemed a good title for a piece on how James spent February 14, 1316. He spent it fighting what he later called the hardest fight of his life, the battle of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture of the Week: Castle Finlairig</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/01/picture-of-the-week-castle-finlairig/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/01/picture-of-the-week-castle-finlairig/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/?p=727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s picture in the sidebar is of Castle Finlairig, an unexpected find during my trip to Scotland. When I knew I was going to make the trip, I carefully planned my itinerary to include the places Shawn, Niall, and Amy would see and experience.  One of Shawn&#8217;s first experiences, on arriving in 1314, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unfortunate Adam Newton</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/01/the-unfortunate-adam-newton/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/01/the-unfortunate-adam-newton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Minor Actors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/?p=717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was not Adam Newton&#8217;s day.  He must have wondered, when he heard that he would be the next messenger to Robert the Bruce, what he had done to anger the clerics above him.  The previous messengers, sent by the cardinals Luke and Jocelin, probably in early September 1317, had been pleasantly but firmly sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knights Templar and Bluebells</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/11/knights-templar-and-bluebells/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/11/knights-templar-and-bluebells/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bannockburn]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/?p=649</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The legendary Knights Templar and the dainty bluebell: an unlikely pair.  However, the Knights Templar are among the research topics of which I have skimmed the surface, in writing the Blue Bells Trilogy.  Of course, the trilogy is not directly about the flower.  In fact, not at all, really.  The title comes from a piece of standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blogs and Medieval Berwick</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/10/guest-blogs-and-medieval-berwick/</link>
		<comments>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/10/guest-blogs-and-medieval-berwick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past days have continued to be busy on the blog tour. Blog O&#8217; the Irish  posted my guest blog on the shared culture of Scotland and Ireland, including Edward Bruce&#8217;s brief stint as the last (Scottish) High King of Ireland, and posted a review, saying, in part: &#8220;I love a good time travel story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle of Methven</title>
		<link>http://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/08/battle-of-methven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A battle which begins with the Oath of the Swans and ends with a full commitment to guerrilla tactics: this is the Battle of Methven, a disaster in the short run for Robert the Bruce, but perhaps a learning experience for him that eventually led to much greater disaster for England.  On February 10, 1306, [...]]]></description>
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