- The House of Stuart, originally Stewart, was a European royal house that originated in Scotland. The dynasty's patrilineal Breton ancestors had held the office of High Steward of Scotland since the 12th century, after arriving by way of Norman England. The royal Stewart line was founded by Robert II, and they were Kings and Queens of Scots from the late 14th century until the union with England in 1707. Mary, Queen of Scots, was brought up in France, where she adopted the French spelling of the name, Stuart. Her son, James VI of Scotland, inherited the thrones of England and Ireland upon the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Except for the period of the Commonwealth, 1649–1660, the Stuarts were monarchs of the British Isles and its growing empire, until the death of Queen Anne in 1714.[note 3] In total, nine Stewart/Stuart monarchs ruled Scotland alone from 1371 until 1603. James VI of Scotland then inherited the realms of Elizabeth I of England, becoming James I of England and Ireland in the Union of the Crowns. Following the Glorious Revolution in 1688, two Stuart queens ruled the isles: Mary II and Anne. Both were the Protestant daughters of James VII and II by his first wife. Their father had converted to Catholicism and his new wife gave birth to a son in 1688, who would be brought up a Roman Catholic and would precede his half-sisters; so James was deposed by Parliament in 1689, in favour of his daughters. But neither had any children who survived to adulthood, so under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Act of Security 1704, the crown passed to the House of Hanover on the death of Queen Anne in 1714.
- Nemo me impune lacessit was the Latin motto of the Royal Stuart dynasty of Scotland from at least the reign of James VI when it appeared on the reverse side of merk coins minted in 1578 and 1580. It is the adopted motto of the Order of the Thistle and of three Scottish regiments of the British Army. The motto also appears, in conjunction with the collar of the Order of the Thistle, in later versions of the Royal coat of arms of the Kingdom of Scotland and subsequently in the version of the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom used in Scotland. It means No one "cuts" (attacks/assails) me with impunity, and has been loosely rendered in Scots as Wha daur meddle wi' me? (in Scottish Gaelic Cha togar m' fhearg gun dìoladh, Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [xa t̪okəɾ mɛɾak kuɲ tʲiəl̪ˠəɣ]). It is also alternatively translated into English as No one can harm me unpunished.
- Duke of Rothesay (Scottish Gaelic: Diùc Baile Bhòid, Scots: Duik o Rothesay) is a dynastic title of the heir apparent to the British throne, currently Prince Charles. It was a title of the heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707, of the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1707 to 1801, and now of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is the title mandated for use by the heir apparent when in Scotland, in preference to the titles Duke of Cornwall(which also belongs to the eldest living son of the monarch, when and only when he is also heir apparent, by right) and Prince of Wales (traditionally granted to the heir apparent), which are used in the rest of the United Kingdom and overseas. The Duke of Rothesay also holds other Scottish titles, including those of Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland. The title is named after Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, Argyll and Bute, but is not associated with any legal entity or landed property, unlike the Duchy of Cornwall.
- Earl of Forfar is a title of Scottish nobility, referring to Forfar, the county town of Angus, Scotland. The Earldom of Forfar was first created in 1661 in the Peerage of Scotland and became extinct as a title in 1715.[3] It was a subsidiary title to the Earldom of Ormond. The dignity of Earl of Forfar in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was granted to Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex in 2019 on the occasion of his 55th birthday.[1] The title was given in addition to those received on his wedding day and affords Prince Edward and his wife Sophie a Scottish title to use when in Scotland.[3]Unlike his brother (Prince Andrew, Earl of Inverness) and nephews (Prince William, Earl of Strathearn and Prince Harry, Earl of Dumbarton), Prince Edward did not receive a Scottish title on the occasion of his marriage. The County of Forfar, renamed Angus in 1928, contains Glamis Castle, the seat of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne, from whom Prince Edward's grandmother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was descended.
Devolution
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21696519-devolving-tax-powers-benefits-scotland-more-rest-britain-may-do-little-keep
arbroath
- Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.King William gave the Abbey independence from its mother church and endowed it generously, including income from 24 parishes, land in every royal burgh and more. The Abbey's monks were allowed to run a market and build a harbour. King John of England gave the Abbey permission to buy and sell goods anywhere in England (except London) toll-free. The Abbey, which was the richest in Scotland, is most famous for its association with the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, believed to have been drafted by Abbot Bernard, who was the Chancellor of Scotland under King Robert I.The Abbey fell into ruin after the Reformation. From 1590 onward, its stones were raided for buildings in the town of Arbroath. This continued until 1815 when steps were taken to preserve the remaining ruins.
Ayrshire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, pronounced [ˈʃirˠəxk iɲiˈɾʲaːɾʲ]) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire to the north-east, Dumfriesshire to the south-east, and Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire to the south. Like many other counties of Scotland it currently has no administrative function, instead being sub-divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire and East Ayrshire. La région a été lourdement industrialisée, avec des aciéries, des mines de charbon et différents produits manufacturés à Kilmarnock, dont le whisky Johnnie Walker. Plus récemment, Digital Equipment avait une importante usine près d'Ayr à partir de 1976, quand la compagnie est rachetée par Compaq en 1998. Certaines entreprises s'étaient développées pour approvisionner ce site, dont l'usine IBM à Greenock dans le Renfrewshire.Hunterston héberge depuis les années 1950 une centrale nucléaire (Hunterston A), fermée en 1990. L'exploitation de la centrale de Hunterston B commença en 1976.L'industrie aérienne écossaise a longtemps été basée autour de Prestwick et son aéroport international, et bien que la fabrication d'avions cesse à l'usine de la British Aerospace en 1998, un nombre significatif de compagnies aériennes sont encore basées sur le site de Prestwick. Toutefois, le chômage est important dans la région, au-dessus de la moyenne nationale.
- famous people
- 伯克的麥理浩男爵夫人麥鄧麗娉，CStJ[?]（英語：Margaret Noël MacLehose, née Dunlop, Baroness MacLehose of Beoch，1920年12月26日－2020年2月16日） 麥理浩勳爵夫人出身蘇格蘭艾爾郡大戶人家，父親托馬斯·查理斯·鄧洛普爵士在當地營辦報業。
班夫 Banff is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The origin of the name is uncertain. It may be derived from the Scottish Gaelic banbh meaning "piglet"; buinne, a stream; or a contraction of Bean-naomhmeaning "holy woman" (as reflected in the burgh's coat of arms which features the Virgin Mary).[3] William J. Watson writes: "It is true that Banff is Banb in the Book of Deer and Banbh in modern Gaelic — one syllable. On the other hand, banbh, a suckling pig, is not appropriate — one might say it is impossible — as the name of a place or district."
Nairn (/ˈnɛərn/ NAIRN; Gaelic: Inbhir Narann) King James VI of Scotland visited the town in 1589 and is said to have later remarked that the High Street was so long that the people at either end spoke different languages, Scots and Gaelic. The landward farmers generally spoke Scots and the fishing families at the harbour end, Gaelic. Nairn, formerly split into Scottish Gaelic- and Scots-speaking communities, was a town of two halves in other ways. The narrow-streeted fishertown surrounds a harbour built by Thomas Telford while Victorian villas stand in the 'West End'. It is believed that the Duke of Cumberland stayed in Nairn the night before the battle of Culloden. In 1645, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the battle of Auldearn was fought near the town, between Royalists and Covenanters.Nairn has an expanse of sand beaches that were used extensively in training exercises for the Normandy landings during World War 2. The beaches around Nairn had landmines planted, during clearance operations in 1945 by 11th Company, Bomb Disposal, Royal engineers. High pressure water jetting was used to displace shingle on top of mines to make clearance easier. Notably during this period two German spies who had been dropped by U-boat in the Moray Firth were arrested at Nairn railway station attempting to board a train to Inverness.
- William Whitelaw, the British deputy Prime Minister 1979–88, was born in Nairn and has a street named after his family.
- hk
- Princess Margaret Road (Chinese: 公主道; Jyutping: gung1 zyu2 dou6; Cantonese Yale: gung1 jyu2 dou6; lit. "Princess Road") is a road in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Originally called Nairn Road (楠道) with the English name after a town in Scotland and the Chinese name after the nanmu trees that grew there,[1] the road was renamed to commemorate the 1966 visit to Hong Kong of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon of United Kingdom.
- Dating back to around 3600 BCE, the Knap of Howar is the oldest building in the world and is most likely the oldest house still standing. The Knap of Howar consists of two stone-built houses that were discovered in the 1930s when erosion revealed parts of the stone walls. Soon after, the site was excavated and archaeologists discovered that the two structures were linked by a passage through the joint walls.Archaeologists believe that the larger of the two buildings was used as a main house and the smaller structure served as workshop or barn. There is evidence that the smaller building was divided into three smaller areas. Eventually, whoever lived in the buildings closed up the entrances to the smaller house but continued to use the main house for several years. Additionally, archaeologists think the site had been for centuries and that the current structure was built on the remains of an earlier building.https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-oldest-building-on-Earth
- Twatt is a small settlement in the parish of Birsay on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
- https://www.quora.com/What-does-twatt-mean-in-England
羅撒西Rothesay /ˈrɒθ.si/ (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Bhòid) is the principal town on the Isle of Bute, in the council area of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It can be reached by ferry from Wemyss Bay which offers an onward rail link to Glasgow. At the centre of the town is Rothesay Castle, a ruined castle which dates back to the 13th century, and which is unique in Scotland for its circular plan.In modern Scottish Gaelic Rothesay is known as Baile Bhòid meaning "town of Bute" The English language name, described as "Rothersay" in 1321, "Rosay" c. 1400 and "Rothissaye" about 1500 originally referred to the castle. This structure had a moat connected to the sea and the name may have originally meant "Rother's Isle" (Old Norse -ey meaning "isle") or be a corruption of the Gaelic rath meaning "fort".
- During the Victorian era, Rothesay developed as a popular tourist destination. It became hugely popular with Glaswegians going "doon the watter" (lit: down the water, where the 'water' in question is the Firth of Clyde), and its wooden pier was once much busier with steamer traffic than it is today. Rothesay was also the location of one of Scotland's many hydropathic establishments during the 19th century boom years of the Hydropathy movement.[6][7] The town also had an electric tramway - the Rothesay and Ettrick Bay Light Railway - which stretched across the island to one of its largest beaches. However, this closed in the mid-1930s. The centre of activities was the Winter Gardens building (built 1923) which played host to some of the best known music hall entertainers of the day.
Scone (/ˈskuːn/) (Scottish Gaelic: Sgàin; Scots: Scuin) is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The medieval village of Scone, which grew up around the monastery and royal residence, was abandoned in the early 19th century when the residents were removed and a new palace was built on the site by the Earl of Mansfield. Hence the modern village of Scone, and the medieval village of Old Scone, can often be distinguished. Both sites lie in the historical province of Gowrie, as well as the old county of Perthshire. Old Scone was the historic capital of the Kingdom of Alba (Scotland). In the Middle Ages it was an important royal centre, used as a royal residence and as the coronation site of the kingdom's monarchs. Around the royal site grew the town of Perth and the Abbey of Scone.In Gaelic poetry Scone's association with kings and king-making gave it various poetic epithets, for instance, Scoine sciath-airde, "Scone of the High Shields", and Scoine sciath-bhinne, "Scone of the Noisy Shields".[3] Scotland itself was often called or shown on maps as the "Kingdom of Scone" (or "Sconiana"), Righe Sgoinde.[4] A comparison would be that Ireland was often called the "Kingdom of Tara", Tara, like Scone, serving as a ceremonial inauguration site.[5]Scone was therefore the closest thing the Kingdom of Scotland had in its earliest years to a "capital".
- according to portillo, caledonian kings were crowned there
- Scone Palace /ˈskuːn/ is a Category A listed historic house and 5 star tourism attraction near the village of Scone and the city of Perth, Scotland. Built of red sandstone with a castellated roof, it is one of the finest examples of late Georgian Gothic style in the United Kingdom. A place steeped in history, Scone was originally the site of an early Christian church, and later an Augustinian priory. In the 12th century, Scone Priory was granted abbey status and as a result an Abbot's residence - an Abbot's Palace - was constructed. It is for this reason (Scone's status as an abbey) that the current structure retains the name "Palace". Scone Abbey was severely damaged in 1559 during the Scottish Reformation after a mob whipped up by the famous reformer, John Knox, came to Scone from Dundee. Having survived the Reformation, the Abbey in 1600 became a secular Lordship (and home) within the parish of Scone, Scotland. The Palace has thus been home to the Earls of Mansfield for over 400 years. During the early 19th century the Palace was enlarged by the architect William Atkinson. In 1802, David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, commissioned Atkinson to extend the Palace, recasting the late 16th-century Palace of Scone. The 3rd Earl tasked Atkinson with updating the old Palace whilst maintaining characteristics of the medieval Gothic abbey buildings it was built upon, with the majority of work finished by 1808.
- Scone Palace /ˈskuːn/ is a Category A listed historic house and 5 star tourism attraction near the village of Scone and the city of Perth, Scotland. Built of red sandstone with a castellated roof, it is one of the finest examples of late Georgian Gothic style in the United Kingdom. A place steeped in history, Scone was originally the site of an early Christian church, and later an Augustinian priory. In the 12th century, Scone Priory was granted abbey status and as a result an Abbot's residence - an Abbot's Palace - was constructed. It is for this reason (Scone's status as an abbey) that the current structure retains the name "Palace". Scone Abbey was severely damaged in 1559 during the Scottish Reformation after a mob whipped up by the famous reformer, John Knox, came to Scone from Dundee. Having survived the Reformation, the Abbey in 1600 became a secular Lordship (and home) within the parish of Scone, Scotland. The Palace has thus been home to the Earls of Mansfield for over 400 years. During the early 19th century the Palace was enlarged by the architect William Atkinson. In 1802, David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, commissioned Atkinson to extend the Palace, recasting the late 16th-century Palace of Scone. The 3rd Earl tasked Atkinson with updating the old Palace whilst maintaining characteristics of the medieval Gothic abbey buildings it was built upon, with the majority of work finished by 1808.
Shetland /ˈʃɛtlənd/, also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago that lies northeast of the island of Great Britain and forms part of Scotland, United Kingdom. The oldest version of the modern name Shetland is Hetlandensis, the Latinised adjectival form of the Old Norse name recorded in a letter from Harald count of Shetland in 1190,becoming Hetland in 1431 after various intermediate transformations. It is possible that the Pictish "cat" sound forms part of this Norse name. It then became Hjaltland in the 16th century. As Norn was gradually replaced by Scots, Hjaltland became Ȝetland. The initial letter is theMiddle Scots letter, "yogh", the pronunciation of which is almost identical to the original Norn sound, "/hj/". When the use of the letter yogh was discontinued, it was often replaced by the similar-looking letter z, hence Zetland, the misspelt form used to describe the pre-1975county council. This is also the source of the ZE postcode used for Shetland.
- Twatt is a settlement in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. It is located on the Shetland Mainland, The name Twatt is similar to the common English expletive "Twat," (a vulgar word for vulva and also an insulting term meaning a weak or contemptible individual). For this reason, Twatt remains a source of amusement to people from outside the parish.
When Stirling was temporarily under Anglo-Saxon sway, according to a 9th century legend, it was attacked by Danish invaders. However the sound of a wolf, roused a sentry, who alerted his garrison, who forced a Viking retreat. This led to the wolf being adopted as a symbol of the town. Even today it appears with a goshawk on the council's coat of arms along with the recently chosen motto: "Steadfast as the Rock". Once the capital of Scotland, Stirling is visually dominated by Stirling Castle. Stirling also has a medieval parish church, the Church of the Holy Rude, where, on 29 July 1567, the infant James VI was anointed King of Scots by the Bishop of Orkney with the service concluding after a sermon by John Knox. The poet King was educated by George Buchanan and grew up in Stirling. He was later also crowned King of England and Ireland on 25th July 1603, bringing closer the countries of the United Kingdom. One of the principal royal strongholds of the Kingdom of Scotland, Stirling was created a royal burgh by King David I in 1130. In 2002, as part of Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee, Stirling was granted city status.
- note the wolf seal - ancient coat of arms
- Famous residents have included Mary, Queen of Scots; King James VI of Scotland; Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Strathclyde (Srath Chluaidh in Gaelic, meaning "strath (valley) of the River Clyde", pronounced [s̪t̪ra xɫ̪ɯi]) was one of nine former local government regions of Scotland created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and abolished in 1996 by the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994. The region was named after the ancient British or Brythonic Damnonii Kingdom of Strathclyde. The kingdom broadly covered the northern end of the region, except an area now covered by the Scottish Argyll and Bute council area and the Isle of Arran, which is now within the Scottish North Ayrshire council area, plus the Scottish Dumfries and Galloway council area and part of the English county of Cumbria.
Ulva (Scottish Gaelic: Ulbha, pronounced [ˈulˠ̪u.ə]) is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, off the west coast of Mull. It is separated from Mull by a narrow strait, and connected to the neighbouring island of Gometra by a bridge. Much of the island is formed from Cenozoic basalt rocks, which is formed into columns in places.
- The owner of a Hebridean island has spoken of his family’s reluctant decision to sell up after 70 years. Jamie Howard put Ulva up for sale for offers over £4.25 million over the summer but has been instructed by the Scottish government to take it off the market to allow a community buyout bid to be explored. http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/11/02/b05-1102.pdf
- An entire island has passed into the hands of its community after being privately owned. Ulva in the Inner Hebrides once had a population of more than 800, but now has fewer than ten people who permanently live on the island. The site was officially bought by the North West Mull Woodland Company (NWMWC) on Thursday after former owner Jamie Howard decided to put the estate on the market. The community right to buy scheme was granted for the bulk of the estate, valued at £4.65 million, following a complex process. Now the official handover to the people who live on the Inner Hebridean island has taken place. The bulk of the purchase price and assistance with project management over the first two years has come from the Scottish Land Fund, which provided an unprecedented £4.4m towards plans to repopulate the island and transform it into a vibrant site in the future. Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/tiny-island-of-ulva-officially-transferred-to-community-ownership-1-4758496
Institution
- political
- european movement in scotland http://www.euromove.org.uk/index.php?id=6604
- Scottish Bakers Bakers House www.scottishbakers.org
- meat
- quality meat scotland www.qmscotland.co.uk, www.scotchbeefandlamb.com
- seafood scotland www.seafoodscotland.org
- scottish salmon producers organisation www.scottishsalmon.co.uk
- label rouge scottish salmon www.saumonecossais.com
- Scotch whisky association www.scotch-whisky.org.uk
- Royal Conservatoire of Scotland http://www.rcs.ac.uk/
- asia
- asia scotland institute http://www.asiascot.com/
- The Highland Society of Scotland, established in 1784 (and still in existence today as the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland), had the improvement of the Highlands and Islands among its core aims. It also intended to preserve the Gaelic language, its literature and music. Support for the language included the Society’s annual poetry and piping competitions.Overseas societies of the Highland Society of London included Madras (founded 1814), Bombay (1822), Canada (1818) and Nova Scotia (1838), the last two having their own branch societies. Other overseas societies included Comunn na Fèinne (Fingalian Club), Geelong, Victoria, Australia, which was established in 1856.
- By the early decades of the twentieth century, Glasgow Highlanders felt the lack of a physical focal point for the many Highland-related organizations and events taking place in the city. It was felt there should also be an identifiable meeting place for those newly-arrived from the Highlands. By working together on fundraising, Glasgow’s Highland societies and associations were able to purchase a property in Elmbank Street which opened in 1925, known as Aitreabh nan Gàidheal / The Highlanders’ Institute.
Company
- scottish power
- A group of MPs has demanded ScottishPower is held to account over a "mis-selling scandal" it says has left 625,000 consumers out of pocket to the tune of £75m. http://news.sky.com/story/1681814/mps-scottishpower-in-mis-selling-cover-up
- CYBG plc is a holding company that owns Clydesdale Bank, Yorkshire Bank and the app-based bank B in the United Kingdom. It was formed by National Australia Bank (NAB) in February 2016, in advance of the divestment of its UK business through a stock market flotation. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and Australian Securities Exchange; it is also a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44517752 The owner of Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank, CYBG, has agreed to buy Virgin Money for £1.7bn. Under the deal, all the group's retail customers will be moved to Virgin Money over the next three years. It will be the UK's sixth-largest bank, with about six million customers, but 1,500 jobs are likely to go. CYBG said it had agreed with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group to license the Virgin Money brand for £12m a year, rising to £15m later.
- Clydesdale Bank plc is a commercial bank in Scotland. Formed in Glasgow in 1838, it is the smallest of the three Scottish banks. Independent until it was purchased by Midland Bank in 1920, it formed part of the National Australia Bank Group (NAB) between 1987 and 2016. Clydesdale Bank was divested from National Australia Bank in early 2016 and its holding company CYBG plc, trades on the London and Sydney stock exchanges. CYBG plc's other banking business, Yorkshire Bank operates as a trading division of Clydesdale Bank plc under its banking licence. As with two other Scottish banks, the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank retains the right to issue its own banknotes. In 1863, Clydesdale acquired the more successful Eastern Bank of Scotland, like Clydesdale, also founded in 1838. Based in Dundee it was to have two separate offices and boards, one in Dundee, the other Edinburgh. Before opening for business it acquired the Dundee Commercial Bank to serve as its Dundee office. Difficulties with the two boards working together led to the Edinburgh bank being wound up and the Eastern became an essentially Dundee bank; its acquisition gave Clydesdale its first interests north of the River Tay. Clydesdale Bank registered as a limited liability company in 1882. In 1917 the Bank was approached by London City and Midland (later Midland Bank) and, although initially resisted, Clydesdale Bank was sold in 1920. However, it continued to operate independently and was always referred to as an affiliate, not a subsidiary. The Glasgow banks suffered more than others in the depressed economy of the inter-war period. In 1989 National Australia Bank bought the Clydesdale bank for £420m. Fred Goodwin, an accountant working for Touche Ross, worked on the acquisition. In 1995 Goodwin, with little direct banking experience, was appointed deputy CEO of the Clydesdale until 1997. National Australia Bank confirmed in October 2014 that it planned to exit the UK, and was considering a number of options for Yorkshire and Clydesdale Banks, including a possible stock market listing.[10] In October 2015, NAB confirmed it would float Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in February 2016 through an initial public offering,[11] with an aim of raising £2bn.
- food
- issued a £20 note to mark Glasgow's celebrations as UK City of Architecture and Design, featuring a portrait of Glaswegian architect Alexander "Greek" Thomson; on the reverse is an illustration of the Lighthouse building by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the dome of Thomson's Holmwood House (1999)
- Keiller's marmalade is named after its creator James and Janet Keiller (nee Mathewson, 1737-1813), and is believed to have been the first commercial brand of marmalade in Great Britain. It was made by James Keiller in Dundee, Scotland, later creating James Keiller & Son, a brand name which became iconic in the 18th and 19th centuries, and has been sold several times.
- note the curious case of dundee cake
- food+tourism
- salmonacademy.com
- press cutting
- mccallum media monitor http://www.press-cuttings.com/
- eco village
- The Findhorn Foundation is a Scottishcharitable trust registered in 1972, formed by the spiritual community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, one of the largest intentional communities in Britain.[1] It has been home to thousands of residents from more than 40 countries. The Foundation runs various educational programmes for the Findhorn community; it also houses about 40 community businesses such as the Findhorn Press and an alternative medicine centre.
- Mentioned at gift talk on 30sep16, will visit hk the week after
Clans
- [future learn]The clans existed throughout the north and west of Scotland in the centuries between approximately 1200 and 1800. They were also Scots Gaelic speaking. Known in Gaelic as the Gàidhealtachd, or more usually by its geographic label of the Highlands and Islands, this region encompasses the central and western areas of the north of Scotland and the Inner and Outer Hebrides.
- From the late twelfth century onwards, the Clan Donald Lords of the Isles rose to dominate the Inner and Outer Hebrides and the west coast of the Highlands. From their power base in Finlaggan on Islay, successive Lords of the Isles issued laws and regulated the various subordinate clans. They presided over a flourishing of classical Gaelic learning and art, and acted as patrons of extended family groups like the Beatons, who specialized in medical knowledge, and the MacMhuirichs, who provided bards (poets) and advisers. This was an expansive and confident society. Clan Donald sought to extend their territories in the later fourteenth and early- to mid- fifteenth centuries. In a useful example of the role of women in the age of the clans, Donald of Islay’s marriage to Mairead, sister of Alexander, earl of Ross enabled him to prosecute his claim to one of the largest lordships in the North of Scotland. This led to warfare along the eastern frontier of the Highlands, pitched battles such as that of Harlaw near Aberdeen in 1411 and the burning of the royal burgh (town) of Inverness in 1429. Another result was growing tensions within Clan Donald. Successive Stewart Kings of Scots increasingly exploited these internal divisions, while rallying other clans such as the Campbells of Argyll and Clan Chattan to their cause. In 1476 King James the Third ordered the forfeiture (the removal of any claim to legal ownership) of lands belonging to Lord John of the Isles. Although later returned to him (minus the earldom of Ross and Kintyre) further internal dissension between John and his Tànaistear (heir apparent) Aonghas Òg (Young Angus), ruptured Clan Donald cohesion.nCivil war ensued and political and military instability spread across the Gàidhealtachd. Key western clans such as the Macleans, Macleods and Macneils, supported Lord John. However, major branches of Clan Donald, such as Clanranald, Keppoch, and Sleat, backed Angus. Arguably, it was the growing failure to ensure peace and stability, rather than any innate anti-Gaelic policy, which led King James the Fourth in 1493 to order the final forfeiture of the Lordship. Writing in 1549, the Gaelic cleric Dean Munro of Lismore looked back to the Lords of the Isles as an age of legitimate justice and cultural achievement. It was a legacy which compared favourably with the anarchic misrule brought on by the destruction of the Lordship and the Stewarts’ subsequent mismanagement of the Gàidhealtachd. Yet it was in this more fluid and uncertain context that a much wider range of clans would now flourish. During the centuries covered by this course, fifty major clans dominated life and locality across the Scottish Gàidhealtachd. Numerous associated kin groups lived under the protection of these larger clans. Their fluid and flexible kin and social arrangements were reimagined in the Victorian era as a rigid ‘system’ of ‘septs’.
- learned clans - In twelfth-century Ireland a revolution took place which saw Gaelic elite culture move its basis from the church to the courts of the aristocracy. Aristocratic patronage was now the means by which the learned class acquired land, wealth and status in exchange for their professional services. However, they were less servants than equals, fellow aristocrats who could be friends, tutors and mentors to their employers. They possessed their own power based on words, knowledge and creation. They were also a civil service which devised and used its own language, a sophisticated literary dialect of Gaelic. In theory they and their associates possessed a form of diplomatic immunity. They traveled the Gaelic-speaking world and beyond as reporters, advisers and ambassadors. They were mediators between different languages and cultures, different social groups, the past and the future, the living and the dead. Of foremost importance were the poets whose most prestigious output was panegyric [meaning ‘to praise’] poetry of praise and condemnation. By pronouncing upon the worth of the aristocracy the poets created lasting reputations. Ultimately the learned classes were arbiters and legitimizers of the social structure and keepers of the bonds which animated clan society. They reminded the elite of its rights and responsibilities.Gaelic Scotland shared in this ‘classical’ revolution by taking practitioners, education and inspiration from Ireland. The MacMhuirich poet-historians may have brought the revolution to Scotland, and over 18 generations between 1200 and 1800 they became the longest-lived poetic dynasty in Europe. The Beatons practised medicine between 1300 and 1750. They spread from Achadowey near Coleraine and created around twenty branches in Scotland. They provided a minimum of 76 physicians trained in the classical tradition and enjoyed high status within the Gaelic and wider Scottish worlds. Beatons were patronised by every monarch of Scotland from Robert the First (1306-1329) to Charles the First (1625-1649).In Ireland the prime practitioner of classical verse or dàn was the filidh. This practitioner was superior to the bàrd. In Scotland the bàrd was a poet whose repertoire could include classical forms of verse; but he was best known for composing in vernacular Gaelic a type of verse called iorram. This type of composition used ‘stressed’ rather than ‘syllabic’ metre and probably predated and certainly outlasted the classical era. (The ‘stressed’ metre method uses patterns of emphasis and non-emphasis on syllables. ‘Syllalbic’ uses fixed syllable patterns to structure the poem). It is likely that between 1200 and 1800 most cultural and learned professionals in Gaelic Scotland were of Scottish origin. In Scotland there were poet-historians rather than poets and historians as in Ireland. There was also a distinctive evolution in musical expertise from the clàrsach or harp to the bagpipe.Legal clans such as the Morrisons seem only to have functioned within the Macdonald Lordship of the Isles, perhaps reflecting the pervasive influence of Scottish common law. Although Gaelic high culture was very male-dominated, in Scotland after 1600 there is evidence for high-status female clan poets. It may be that gender was another point of difference with Ireland.After around 1600, social change meant that chiefly support for high Gaelic culture was no longer guaranteed. The classical tradition gradually died out, but the vernacular tradition adapted and thrived. It is likely that from 1200 to 1800 culture at the lower levels of Scottish clan society was as valued and vibrant as its elite counterpart. Elite and popular culture were united by oral transmission, and the cultural professions were organised into hierarchies which reached into the ranks of the general population. Culturally the taigh-chèilidh or ceilidh house was the popular equivalent of the chief’s court, and it continued to act as the cultural dynamo of Gaelic Scotland when the chiefly court ceased to exist.
- An armigerous clan is a Scottish clan, family or name which is registered with the Court of the Lord Lyon and once had a chief who bore undifferenced arms, but does not have a chief currently recognized as such by Lyon Court. Before 1745 all chiefs had arms; however, not all of these are recorded in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, which was only established in 1672. In Scottish heraldry only chiefs or heads of clans, families, or names bear undifferenced arms. A clan is considered a "noble incorporation" because a clan chief is a title of honour in Scotland and the chief confers his or her noble status onto the clan. Because armigerous clans do not have such chiefs, they are not recognised as noble communities and have no legal standing under Scots law.
- Clan Strachan is a Scottish clan originating from Aberdeenshire, but once used to be located in the Howe O'Mearns (or Kincardineshire). The clan does not have a chiefnow, therefore it is considered by Court of the Lord Lyon and the Stand Council of Scottish Chiefs as an Armigerous clan.
- The Strachan Baronetcy, of Thornton, Kincardine, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1625 for Alexander Strachan, a favourite of King Charles I, and a Commissioner of the Exchequer. The title became dormant on the death of the sixth baronet, Richard Strachan in 1828. Their arms were; or, a hart, tripping, at gaze, azure, attired sable.
- note the curved knife in the clan's crest badge
- [future learn] Kintyre in in Southern Argyll was key to Clan Donald influence in Ireland, the Irish Sea and the Inner Hebrides. But they also held lands in Mid-Argyll and further north in Ardnamurchan and Lochaber.
- [future learn]The Morrisons were a kin group specializing in legal knowledge, a position that gave them considerable local prestige. But this position could also result in tensions and conflict with the dominant clan in the area, the Macleods of Lewis.Many Morrisons, particularly the North American diaspora, consider Dùn Èistean to be their ancestral home. In the early 2000s, the Dùn Èistean Archaeology Project began. The Clan Morrison Society and Western Isles council archaeologists worked with Glasgow University, using funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Historic Environment Scotland to begin digging. These excavations revealed the remains of a defended settlement, including a lookout tower, living quarters, ancillary buildings, a corn-drying kiln, rainwater pond, and defensive wall. The buildings were all built from turf walls lined with stone, with the upper walls and roofs built purely from turf resting on driftwood timbers, as indicated by finds of iron nails and rivets.
- clan fraser of lovat
- Clan MacLeod (/ˌklæn mᵻˈklaʊd/; Scottish Gaelic: Clann Mhic Leòid; Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈkʰl̪ˠan̪ˠ viʰkʲ ˈlɔːtʲ]) is aHighland Scottish clan associated with theIsle of Skye. There are two main branches of the clan: the MacLeods of Harris andDunvegan, whose chief is MacLeod of MacLeod, are known in Gaelic as Sìol Tormoid ("seed of Tormod"); the Clan MacLeod of Lewis and Raasay, whose chief is Macleod of The Lewes, are known in Gaelic as Sìol Torcaill ("seed of Torcall"). Both branches claim descent from Leòd, who lived in the 13th century.
- https://ugc.futurelearn.com/uploads/assets/17/60/hero_17605d2e-591e-47f5-90f7-91fd8e5b3065.jpg Caricature by William Hogarth of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat drawn prior to his trial and execution in London for treason. It is reputed that Hogarth shows Fraser listing off the clans that fought for the Stuarts.His command of a British army independent company in the 1720s and 1730s enabled him to train many of his own tenants in musket drill and close discipline. Ironically, the British government paid for the expertise of much of the Fraser manpower which performed so effectively in the Jacobite army in 1745-6.
- [future learn] The heirs of executed Jacobites, such as Simon Fraser, younger of Lovat, raised tenantry for the Seven Years War (1756-1763) and the American War of Independence (1775-1783).
- munros
People
- William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, KT, CH, MC, PC, DL (28 June 1918 – 1 July 1999), often known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretaryand de facto Deputy Prime Minister. He was Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1991.Whitelaw was born at the family house "Monklands" on Thurlow road, Nairn, in northeast Scotland. He never knew his father, William Alexander Whitelaw (born 1892), a member of a Scottish family of the landed gentry,[5][6] who was killed in the First World War when he was a baby. Whitelaw was raised by his mother, a local councillor in Nairn, and paternal grandfather, William Whitelaw (1868–1946), of Gartshore, Dunbartonshire, an Old Harrovian and alumnus of Trinity College, Cambridge,[7] landowner, MP for Perth 1892–1895, and chairman of the London and North-Eastern Railway Company.[8] His great-aunt, by marriage, Dorothy, was the niece of former Prime Minister and author Benjamin Disraeli.
- GlobalScot Network www.globalscot.com
- Henry Keswick
- [future learn] A British government report from 1744 welcomed the support of the Munros, noting that their military effectiveness involved rotating men into the Scots regiments in the service of the Netherlands. The men received training in drill, discipline and weaponry. Once back in their own localities these former soldiers enabled the Munros to fight in a combination of ways, including as a musket-based regiment.
People
- William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, KT, CH, MC, PC, DL (28 June 1918 – 1 July 1999), often known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretaryand de facto Deputy Prime Minister. He was Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1991.Whitelaw was born at the family house "Monklands" on Thurlow road, Nairn, in northeast Scotland. He never knew his father, William Alexander Whitelaw (born 1892), a member of a Scottish family of the landed gentry,[5][6] who was killed in the First World War when he was a baby. Whitelaw was raised by his mother, a local councillor in Nairn, and paternal grandfather, William Whitelaw (1868–1946), of Gartshore, Dunbartonshire, an Old Harrovian and alumnus of Trinity College, Cambridge,[7] landowner, MP for Perth 1892–1895, and chairman of the London and North-Eastern Railway Company.[8] His great-aunt, by marriage, Dorothy, was the niece of former Prime Minister and author Benjamin Disraeli.
- GlobalScot Network www.globalscot.com
- a network of business leaders, entrepreneurs and executives with a connection to Soctland
- Henry Keswick
- Reputation for Scottish good sense is a case for No http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/58e1baf8-3db2-11e4-b782-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3ECJsiC6p
- http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1599032/humble-scottish-merchant-writes-financial-times
- Sir Tom Hunter http://www.thehunterfoundation.co.uk/, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-469176/Biography-Sir-Tom-Hunter.html
- Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond (/ˈsæmənd/; born 31 December 1954) is a Scottish politician who served as the First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. Salmond was born in his parents' home at 101 Preston Road, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, on 31 December 1954.[8][9] He is the second of four children born to Robert Fyfe Findlay Salmond (1921–2017), and Mary Stewart Salmond (née Milne; 1922–2003), both of whom were civil servants.[10] Robert Salmond, who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War,[11] had originally worked as an electrician, and his family had been resident in Linlithgow since the mid-18th century.[12] Alex Salmond's middle names come from his family's tradition of naming their children after the local Church of Scotland minister, in this case the Reverend Gilbert Elliot Anderson of St Ninian's Craigmailen Parish Church in Linlinthgow.
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Independence
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Education
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21705866-scotlands-schools-were-once-among-best-world-what-went-wrong-not-so-bonny
schools
- Nairn Academy is a secondary school in Nairn, Scotland. The school was founded in 1832. Until 1953, the school had been known as Rose’s Academical Institution, in honour of an early benefactor, Captain James Rose, RN. From 1953 onwards it has been known as Nairn Academy and was formerly housed in what is now Rosebank Primary School. By 1969, the school had grown to outstrip its former site and a new building was planned and subsequently erected at the western end of the town. The new school was first occupied in January 1976, and was formally opened in June that year.
Whisky
- auchentoshan single malt scotch whisky (breakfast whisky) - pair with salmon
- benrinnes single malt scotch whisky - pair with crab
- highland park dark origins - pair with langoustine / seafood salpicon
Salmon
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20150906/00180_005.html英國蘇格蘭的三文魚養殖場，被指在二○一三至一四年間，獵殺了約一百七十條海豹，以阻止海豹吃掉三文魚。當中向英國馬莎百貨公司供貨的三文魚魚商，就因而獵殺了五十六條海豹。保育人士批評此舉不人道。有養殖場的漁夫表示，為了避免海豹破壞漁網及吃掉三文魚，惟有殺掉海豹。不過，保育組織發言人斯塔尼福德（Don Staniford）就反駁指，現時有八成七養殖場都未有安裝防捕食魚網，漁民並非別無選擇，組織計劃穿「海豹喪屍」服裝到馬莎百貨公司示威。三文魚買賣每年為蘇格蘭經濟帶來約四十三億港元收入，執政的蘇格蘭民族黨（SNP）自去年開始，就不再公開被殺海豹數目，直至上周法庭下令始公開數據。馬莎發言人稱公司與漁民均不願動物受害，一直致力避免此情況發生。
Razor clam
- http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/13771653.Razor_Clam_Wars__high_seas_battle_of_wits_to_stop_illegal__electro_fishing_/ They are one of the jewels in the crown when it comes to Scottish seafood. So prized are razor clams in kitchens around the world that a battle of wits is now being played out between skippers illegally hunting the molluscs using dangerous 'electro-fishing' techniques, and government inspectors intent on policing the trade in Scottish sea food. A group of fishermen caught illegally electrocuting razor clams earlier this month during a night-time raid are now facing prosecution or fines of up to £10,000. As enforcement officers from Marine Scotland approached a boat in the Sound of Jura in the early hours of September 10, fishing gear was unceremoniously dumped overboard. It has since been recovered by divers and confiscated.
- http://countryside-alliance.org/scot/ca-scotland-news/scottish-government-to-tackle-illegal-electro-razor-clam-fishing Tougher licensing measures have been brought in to clamp down on the illegal practice of electro-fishing for razor clams. It follows an increase in complaints received by Marine Scotland over the last 18 months. Fishermen and other interested parties have been raising concerns about the impact electrofishing may have on razor fish stocks and the wider marine ecosystem around the Scottish coast, something which Marine Scotland Science is currently studying. It is legal to fish or dive for razor clams, but the practice of electrofishing by passing an electric current into the seabed is against the law.
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160207/00180_007.html 由於亞洲對蟶子需求甚殷，英國蘇格蘭的非法撈捕蟶子業日漸猖獗。蘇格蘭警方近日要求有營運相關航線的航空公司，停止運送新鮮蟶子到中國內地及香港等市場，以打擊非法捕撈蟶子業。英國本土對蟶子需求不大，當地捕獲的蟶子主要外銷至中國內地及香港。根據警方統計，不法分子以電力捕魚等非法捕撈手法，每日撈捕五百至六百公斤蟶子，對海洋生態造成極大損害。這些蟶子會透過黑市外銷，日入可達五十七萬港元。為保新鮮，捕獲的蟶子必須盡快送到目的地，故不法分子必須每日將新鮮蟶子空運到亞洲。英國警方相信，只要在蟶子空運到外地市場時作出堵截，就可有效打擊非法捕撈蟶子業，亦可減少電力捕魚造成的生態損害。目前英國警方已要求至少一間國際航空公司，暫停將蟶子由蘇格蘭西岸運至遠東地區。
水怪
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20151102/00180_027.html 疑幻似真的蘇格蘭尼斯湖水怪傳說，據稱最早於十九世紀七十年代出現。至今雖未明確顯示湖中確有巨物，卻每年為當地帶來逾三億六千萬港元收益。最近有英國史學家指，傳說原來是一九三○年代的蘇格蘭酒店東主，為振興經濟而製造的廉價謊言。英國布里斯托爾大學的科學歷史學家威廉斯推出新書，指上世紀三十年代全球陷入經濟大蕭條，蘇格蘭一眾酒店東主為救低迷的旅遊業，出價近一千八百港元，找到名叫杰拉蒂的男子構思吸引遊客的方法。杰拉蒂及其公關團隊，遂於倫敦一酒吧炮製出「尼斯湖水怪」。據稱首次目擊水怪是發生於一八七一年，有男子聲稱在湖中發現像巨木的生物，不過威廉斯稱傳說是來自加拿大一隻虛構的水怪。他稱為令傳說更可信，杰拉蒂更安排水怪「現身」，讓傳說繼續發酵。威廉斯指一九三○年前，極少有關目擊水怪的說法，間接證明他的論點。
Arts
- The Glasgow School was a circle of influential artists and designers that began to coalesce in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1870s, and flourished from the 1890s to around 1910. Representative groups included The Four (also known as the Spook School), the Glasgow Girls and the Glasgow Boys. They were responsible for creating the distinctive Glasgow Style. Glasgow experienced an economic boom at the end of the 19th century, resulting in an increase in distinctive contributions to the Art Nouveau movement, particularly in the fields of architecture, interior design and painting.
costume
- The word ‘tartan’ refers to both a fabric and a pattern – as a pattern it is a multi-coloured, checked design where different coloured yarns are woven in equal proportions. Before the invention of synthetic dyes in the mid-nineteenth century, all colours used in tartan were from natural dyestuffs. Some of these were native to Scotland while others, such as cochineal used to make red, were imported from South America. This made red more expensive and thus high status, and it explains why a number of elite men in particular are depicted in tartan with a lot of red.In the eighteenth century tartan became a symbol of Jacobite support in the Rising of 1745 led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart. This association was so strong that when the Jacobites were defeated, Highland dress was banned in Scotland from 1746/7 to 1782 as part of the Proscription Act. While tartan itself was not actually banned, the fact that most, if not all, Highland dress was made of tartan meant it developed rebellious or loyal connotations (depending on which side you were on).The Proscription Act was repealed in 1782 and by the turn of the nineteenth century a number of clubs and societies existed that were concerned with preserving what they saw as Highland culture. These ‘Highland societies’ were set up by elite men who would meet to discuss Highland poetry, literature and music. Members were encouraged to wear tartan and Highland dress to these meetings and it is at this point that we start to see more references to ‘clan tartans’.
- The Balmoral (more fully the Balmoral bonnet in Scottish English or Balmoral capotherwise, and formerly called the Kilmarnock bonnet) is a traditional Scottishhat that can be worn as part of formal or informal Highland dress. Developed from the earlier blue bonnet, dating to at least the 16th century,[clarification needed] it takes the form of a knitted, soft wool cap with a flat crown. It is named after Balmoral Castle, a royal residence in Scotland.
- see you jimmy hathttps://www.quora.com/Is-it-offensive-if-I-make-a-jacket-that-says-nemo-me-immune-lacessit-and-has-thistles-on-it-if-I-am-not-Scottish
- Trews (Truis or Triubhas) are men's clothing for the legs and lower abdomen, a traditional form of tartan trousers from ScottishHighland dress. Trews could be trimmed with leather, usually buckskin, especially on the inner leg to prevent wear from riding on horseback. Tartan trews shared the fate of other items of Highland dress, including proscription under the Dress Act of 1746 that banned men and boys from wearing the truis ("Trowse") outside of military service. The Dress Act lasted until 1782 when it was repealed under the reign of King George III.The tartan truis or trousers date back to 1538 as a medieval style of woven tartan cloth trousers[1] as a garment preferably used during the Highland winter where the kilt would be impractical in such cold weather.[2] The word is triubhas in Scottish Gaelic. Truis or trews are anglicised spellings meaning trousers.Traditional trews were form-fitting garments, similar to the footed hose of the Renaissance, from which they probably evolved. (However, Tacitus says that in 69 BCE, the Roman general, Caecina, was considered, by his wearing of the foreign trews when meeting with toga-clad Romans, to show indication of a haughty spirit.[5]) They could be cut as Knee-breeches or full length. These trews were cut on the cross-grain (US bias), which allowed the fabric to stretch sufficiently to mould to the body, and placed the tartan "sett" on the diagonal. Traditional trews are actually long hose. These hose came all the way up to the waist and were attached to a linen cloth (NB: These were not trousers). They were fastened at the lower leg, below the knee, by a garter (the precursor to the flashes of the Highland Dress) as can be seen in the painting by David Morier of the Battle of Culloden. It is said in Scottish traditional folklorethat these triubhas were actually the common garment of the 16th to 18th Centuries in the Highlands.[6] It is also a fascinating note that when travelling, in order to avoid getting the trews wet when crossing streams, the Highlander would wear shorter hose, ones that would only reach up to the knee, and wrap his "bed-garments" around his waist, a form of the Great Kilt.
- kilt
literature
- Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.Lang's earliest publication was a volume of metrical experiments, The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872), and this was followed at intervals by other volumes of dainty verse, Ballades in Blue China (1880, enlarged edition, 1888), Ballads and Verses Vain (1884), selected by Mr Austin Dobson; Rhymes à la Mode (1884), Grass of Parnassus (1888), Ban and Arrière Ban (1894), New Collected Rhymes (1905).
scots, scottish
- Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond (/ˈsæmənd/; born 31 December 1954) is a Scottish politician who served as the First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. Salmond was born in his parents' home at 101 Preston Road, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, on 31 December 1954.[8][9] He is the second of four children born to Robert Fyfe Findlay Salmond (1921–2017), and Mary Stewart Salmond (née Milne; 1922–2003), both of whom were civil servants.[10] Robert Salmond, who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War,[11] had originally worked as an electrician, and his family had been resident in Linlithgow since the mid-18th century.[12] Alex Salmond's middle names come from his family's tradition of naming their children after the local Church of Scotland minister, in this case the Reverend Gilbert Elliot Anderson of St Ninian's Craigmailen Parish Church in Linlinthgow.
- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-45350594 The first minister said complaints could not simply be "swept aside because of the identity of the person involved". And she said the priority should be ensuring "truth and justice prevail". Mr Salmond, who strongly denies the allegations against him, quit the SNP on Wednesday evening.The former first minister is taking court action against the Scottish government over its handling of the complaints.Mr Salmond also launched a crowdfunding appeal to pay his legal costs, which surpassed its £50,000 target in a few hours but has been heavily criticised by opposition parties.
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1845375/nicola-sturgeon-visiting-china-and-hong-kong-keeps-raising
- architect
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macdonald, was influential on European design movements such as Art Nouveau and Secessionism and praised by great modernists such as Josef Hoffmann. Mackintosh was born in Glasgow and died in London.He changed the spelling of his name from 'McIntosh' to 'Mackintosh' for unknown reasons, as his father did before him, around 1893.[6] Confusion continues to surround the use of his name with 'Rennie' sometimes incorrectly substituted for his first name of 'Charles'. The modern use of 'Rennie Mackintosh' as a surname is also incorrect and he was never known as such in his lifetime; 'Rennie' being a middle name which he used often in writing his name. Signatures took various forms including 'C.R. Mackintosh' and 'Chas. R. Mackintosh.' He should thus properly be referred to as "Charles Rennie Mackintosh" or "Mackintosh" - if a shortened form is needed. "Rennie Mackintosh" is incorrect.
- Robert Neil MacGregor, OM, AO, FSA (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and former museum director. He was the editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to 1987, then Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, Director of the British Museum from 2002 to 2015,[1] and is currently the founding director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
- asia related
- hkej 5jun19 shum article
- Sir Patrick Manson, GCMG, FRS (3 October 1844 – 9 April 1922), was a Scottish physician who made important discoveries in parasitology, and was the founder of the field of tropical medicine. He graduated from University of Aberdeen with degrees in Master of Surgery, Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Law. His medical career spanned Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and London. He discovered that filariasis in Humans is transmitted by mosquitoes. This is the foundation of modern tropical medicine, and he is recognized with an epithet "Father of Tropical Medicine". His discovery directly invoked the mosquito-malaria theory, which became the foundation in malariology. He eventually became the first President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He founded the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (subsequently absorbed into the University of Hong Kong) and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Manson was inflicted with gout during his service in China.[4] His recurring condition worsened with age. He died in 1922.
- eurasian
- Patrick Manson was inspired by his elder brother, David Manson, who worked in Shanghai in medical service, to join medical officer post in the Customs Service of Formosa (now Taiwan). Manson traveled to Formosa in 1866 as a medical officer to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, where he started a long career in the research of tropical medicine. His official daily duty involved inspecting ships docked at the port, check their crews and keep the meteorological record. He also attended to Chinese patients in a local missionary hospital where he was exposed to a wide variety of tropical diseases for his postgraduate training without any supervision. His only research tool was a combination of clinical skill, hand lens and good record keeping. He was in good terms with the native Chinese, learning Mandarin and befriending them. However, due to political conflict between China and Japan over the occupation of the island, he was advised by the British Consul to leave. After 5 years in Formosa, he was transferred to Amoy, on the Chinese coast where he worked for another 13 years. Once again he again served the local Chinese patients at the Baptist Missionary Society's Hospital and Dispensary for the Chinese. His brother David joined him for 2 years.
- From 1883 to 1889, Manson worked in Hong Kong. He was the first to import cows from his native Scotland to Hong Kong and thus establish a dairy farm in Pok Fu Lam in 1885 and the company Dairy Farm in Hong Kong. However his most significant works are in medical education. He was the founder of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, where Sun Yat-sen was one of his first pupils.
- Eric Cumine was born in Shanghai at 8D, Avenue Road (now Beijing Road West) on 16 June 1905 to parents whose families both had very early connections with Shanghai and Scottish origins. They were married in Hong Kong on 30 July 1904. Eric’s mother Winifrid was the eldest daughter of Alexander Ryrie Greaves (1856 – 1927), a Scottish tea taster who married Josephine Ng, a woman from southern Guangdong Province in China. Eric’s father was Henry Monsel Cumine (1882 – 1951). He too was from a well known Scottish family. Henry’s father, Alexander George Thomas Cumine arrived on the south coast of China in the summer of 1865 following the death of his brother Charles. Eric’s father an architect by profession was in the mould of a stereotypical Victorian patriarch, ruling with an iron fist. Eric’s niece, Beatrice Greaves, the mother of the famous Australian broadcaster Jane Hutcheon recalled that Henry’s whole family were terrified of the larger than life Henry Cumine. He ‘set the style’ ensuring his direct and wider family had to sing Scottish songs out of respect for his Scottish rather than Eurasian heritage. http://www.treatyportsport.com/person-4---eric-byron-cumine.html
- hk related
- 葡京酒店於1970年6月11日落成啟用，是澳門首家五星級酒店。這座由黃、白色相間、外貌極像「鳥籠」的建築，一直流傳著考究過風水，令入場的賭客十賭九輸，筆者是很近期才知悉葡京的建築師是中英混血兒甘洺 (Eric Cumine 1905-2002，享年97)，而香港已拆卸的富麗華酒店及北角邨也是他的傑作。鍾寶賢小姐在2009年出版的著作《商城故事 – 銅鑼灣百年變遷》有數頁是介紹甘洺的生平和建築作品。他生於上海，父親來自蘇格蘭。甘沼在15歲時，從上海負笈英倫，在建築學會建築學院 (Architectural Association School of Architecture) 修讀建築。學成後返回上海，1937年日軍侵佔上海，他被關進集中營；天性樂觀、幽默的他仍在營內創作漫畫。1949年，他南下香港，得友人利孝和之助，開展建築所業務，愈做愈成功，成為香港十大建築師之一。1974年，他獲頒OBE榮銜。他跨越中、西的文化背景，講得一口流利的上海話、廣東話和英語，加上交遊廣闊的性格，使他成為建築界內響噹噹又廣受尊重的人物。邵氏清水灣片廠的行政樓也是他的大作 (見下圖)，各窗戶外觀均呈不同樣貌，簡約之餘、亦見特色。他為傅老榕(1894－1960) 家族設計、於1973年落成啟用的富麗華酒店 (Furama) ，Furama這字是由傅Fu和美麗華Mirama這二字合併而來。酒店頂層的旋轉餐廳La Ronda曾長期成為中環地標，是城中人士喜歡的美食場所，也是觀賞迷人夜景的浪漫地方。可惜，這酒店在2001年年底拆卸、重建為今天的一座保險大廈。甘洺也參與香港五十年代公屋的設計，著名的北角邨和蘇屋邨，均是他的名作。前者是他主力設計，後者則是他集合數個華人建築師樓的集體創作。據維基資料顯示，1957年11月25日，當時的香港總督葛量洪爵士主持北角邨的開幕典禮。1958年1月全邨完成，當時被譽為「亞洲最壯麗的工程」，亦是當時香港最大型的住宅項目，主要為小康家庭提供優質居所，其特色是每戶均有獨立廚房及廁所，更有露台和固定間隔房間，並設有升降機，有社區禮堂、商店、巴士總站、郵政局及碼頭。這種種設施是香港公營房屋首次出現的。位於油麻地窩打老道的基督教香港信義會真理堂，是筆者過去三年返的教堂，原來也是甘洺在六十年代初的佳作。據稱，其建築設計意念是來自聖經裏的「挪亞方舟」。支撐殿的天花板是「船底的骨架」、聖壇背後彩色玻璃的外面頭頂，則是「船舵」、殿頂上是「船的龍骨」。在七十年代末、八十年代初，甘洺設計了尖沙咀的海港城，惜這座商場因地積比問題，業主興起法律訴訟，成為他晚年的重大挫折。https://timothyfan.blogspot.hk/2013/02/blog-post_19.html
- Scmp 2oct17
- James Stuart Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane CBE (17 May 1936 – 31 March 2020) was a Scottish businessman and manager.The son of James Gordon and Elsie Riach, he was educated at the St Aloysius' College, Glasgow and the University of Glasgow, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in classics in 1958.
- 他生前創立克萊德電台，是國會跨黨派關注香港局勢小組成員。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200404/00180_010.html
Independence
- Against
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21614176-scottish-firms-worry-lot-about-separation-talk-about-it-less-grouse-more
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21615584-leader-scotlands-unionist-campaign-has-made-strategic-mistake-loneliness-alistair
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1594115/denied-vote-frustrated-expat-scots-watch-homelands-fate-decided, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/02/scots-scotland-vote-on-independence, http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/scots-expats-will-not-get-to-vote-in-independence-1114214, http://www.expatsblog.com/news/1509146286/expat-scots-cut-off-from-referendum
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11115314/Scotland-gets-its-own-web-domain.html
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/18/scottish_government_declares_independence_online/
Education
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21705866-scotlands-schools-were-once-among-best-world-what-went-wrong-not-so-bonny
schools
- Nairn Academy is a secondary school in Nairn, Scotland. The school was founded in 1832. Until 1953, the school had been known as Rose’s Academical Institution, in honour of an early benefactor, Captain James Rose, RN. From 1953 onwards it has been known as Nairn Academy and was formerly housed in what is now Rosebank Primary School. By 1969, the school had grown to outstrip its former site and a new building was planned and subsequently erected at the western end of the town. The new school was first occupied in January 1976, and was formally opened in June that year.
Whisky
- auchentoshan single malt scotch whisky (breakfast whisky) - pair with salmon
- benrinnes single malt scotch whisky - pair with crab
- highland park dark origins - pair with langoustine / seafood salpicon
Salmon
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20150906/00180_005.html英國蘇格蘭的三文魚養殖場，被指在二○一三至一四年間，獵殺了約一百七十條海豹，以阻止海豹吃掉三文魚。當中向英國馬莎百貨公司供貨的三文魚魚商，就因而獵殺了五十六條海豹。保育人士批評此舉不人道。有養殖場的漁夫表示，為了避免海豹破壞漁網及吃掉三文魚，惟有殺掉海豹。不過，保育組織發言人斯塔尼福德（Don Staniford）就反駁指，現時有八成七養殖場都未有安裝防捕食魚網，漁民並非別無選擇，組織計劃穿「海豹喪屍」服裝到馬莎百貨公司示威。三文魚買賣每年為蘇格蘭經濟帶來約四十三億港元收入，執政的蘇格蘭民族黨（SNP）自去年開始，就不再公開被殺海豹數目，直至上周法庭下令始公開數據。馬莎發言人稱公司與漁民均不願動物受害，一直致力避免此情況發生。
Razor clam
- http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/13771653.Razor_Clam_Wars__high_seas_battle_of_wits_to_stop_illegal__electro_fishing_/ They are one of the jewels in the crown when it comes to Scottish seafood. So prized are razor clams in kitchens around the world that a battle of wits is now being played out between skippers illegally hunting the molluscs using dangerous 'electro-fishing' techniques, and government inspectors intent on policing the trade in Scottish sea food. A group of fishermen caught illegally electrocuting razor clams earlier this month during a night-time raid are now facing prosecution or fines of up to £10,000. As enforcement officers from Marine Scotland approached a boat in the Sound of Jura in the early hours of September 10, fishing gear was unceremoniously dumped overboard. It has since been recovered by divers and confiscated.
- http://countryside-alliance.org/scot/ca-scotland-news/scottish-government-to-tackle-illegal-electro-razor-clam-fishing Tougher licensing measures have been brought in to clamp down on the illegal practice of electro-fishing for razor clams. It follows an increase in complaints received by Marine Scotland over the last 18 months. Fishermen and other interested parties have been raising concerns about the impact electrofishing may have on razor fish stocks and the wider marine ecosystem around the Scottish coast, something which Marine Scotland Science is currently studying. It is legal to fish or dive for razor clams, but the practice of electrofishing by passing an electric current into the seabed is against the law.
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160207/00180_007.html 由於亞洲對蟶子需求甚殷，英國蘇格蘭的非法撈捕蟶子業日漸猖獗。蘇格蘭警方近日要求有營運相關航線的航空公司，停止運送新鮮蟶子到中國內地及香港等市場，以打擊非法捕撈蟶子業。英國本土對蟶子需求不大，當地捕獲的蟶子主要外銷至中國內地及香港。根據警方統計，不法分子以電力捕魚等非法捕撈手法，每日撈捕五百至六百公斤蟶子，對海洋生態造成極大損害。這些蟶子會透過黑市外銷，日入可達五十七萬港元。為保新鮮，捕獲的蟶子必須盡快送到目的地，故不法分子必須每日將新鮮蟶子空運到亞洲。英國警方相信，只要在蟶子空運到外地市場時作出堵截，就可有效打擊非法捕撈蟶子業，亦可減少電力捕魚造成的生態損害。目前英國警方已要求至少一間國際航空公司，暫停將蟶子由蘇格蘭西岸運至遠東地區。
水怪
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20151102/00180_027.html 疑幻似真的蘇格蘭尼斯湖水怪傳說，據稱最早於十九世紀七十年代出現。至今雖未明確顯示湖中確有巨物，卻每年為當地帶來逾三億六千萬港元收益。最近有英國史學家指，傳說原來是一九三○年代的蘇格蘭酒店東主，為振興經濟而製造的廉價謊言。英國布里斯托爾大學的科學歷史學家威廉斯推出新書，指上世紀三十年代全球陷入經濟大蕭條，蘇格蘭一眾酒店東主為救低迷的旅遊業，出價近一千八百港元，找到名叫杰拉蒂的男子構思吸引遊客的方法。杰拉蒂及其公關團隊，遂於倫敦一酒吧炮製出「尼斯湖水怪」。據稱首次目擊水怪是發生於一八七一年，有男子聲稱在湖中發現像巨木的生物，不過威廉斯稱傳說是來自加拿大一隻虛構的水怪。他稱為令傳說更可信，杰拉蒂更安排水怪「現身」，讓傳說繼續發酵。威廉斯指一九三○年前，極少有關目擊水怪的說法，間接證明他的論點。
Arts
- The Glasgow School was a circle of influential artists and designers that began to coalesce in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1870s, and flourished from the 1890s to around 1910. Representative groups included The Four (also known as the Spook School), the Glasgow Girls and the Glasgow Boys. They were responsible for creating the distinctive Glasgow Style. Glasgow experienced an economic boom at the end of the 19th century, resulting in an increase in distinctive contributions to the Art Nouveau movement, particularly in the fields of architecture, interior design and painting.
costume
- The word ‘tartan’ refers to both a fabric and a pattern – as a pattern it is a multi-coloured, checked design where different coloured yarns are woven in equal proportions. Before the invention of synthetic dyes in the mid-nineteenth century, all colours used in tartan were from natural dyestuffs. Some of these were native to Scotland while others, such as cochineal used to make red, were imported from South America. This made red more expensive and thus high status, and it explains why a number of elite men in particular are depicted in tartan with a lot of red.In the eighteenth century tartan became a symbol of Jacobite support in the Rising of 1745 led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart. This association was so strong that when the Jacobites were defeated, Highland dress was banned in Scotland from 1746/7 to 1782 as part of the Proscription Act. While tartan itself was not actually banned, the fact that most, if not all, Highland dress was made of tartan meant it developed rebellious or loyal connotations (depending on which side you were on).The Proscription Act was repealed in 1782 and by the turn of the nineteenth century a number of clubs and societies existed that were concerned with preserving what they saw as Highland culture. These ‘Highland societies’ were set up by elite men who would meet to discuss Highland poetry, literature and music. Members were encouraged to wear tartan and Highland dress to these meetings and it is at this point that we start to see more references to ‘clan tartans’.
- Tartan could be incorporated into many aspects of Highland dress but it is the feileadh mor (literally the ‘great wrap’) or great plaid that is perhaps the most distinct. The great plaid was made from 2 lengths of cloth sewn together to create a large expanse of material, approximately 70cm by 5 metres.
- The Balmoral (more fully the Balmoral bonnet in Scottish English or Balmoral capotherwise, and formerly called the Kilmarnock bonnet) is a traditional Scottishhat that can be worn as part of formal or informal Highland dress. Developed from the earlier blue bonnet, dating to at least the 16th century,[clarification needed] it takes the form of a knitted, soft wool cap with a flat crown. It is named after Balmoral Castle, a royal residence in Scotland.
- The Hong Kong Police Band bagpipes section wears a black and red version.
- see you jimmy hathttps://www.quora.com/Is-it-offensive-if-I-make-a-jacket-that-says-nemo-me-immune-lacessit-and-has-thistles-on-it-if-I-am-not-Scottish
- Trews (Truis or Triubhas) are men's clothing for the legs and lower abdomen, a traditional form of tartan trousers from ScottishHighland dress. Trews could be trimmed with leather, usually buckskin, especially on the inner leg to prevent wear from riding on horseback. Tartan trews shared the fate of other items of Highland dress, including proscription under the Dress Act of 1746 that banned men and boys from wearing the truis ("Trowse") outside of military service. The Dress Act lasted until 1782 when it was repealed under the reign of King George III.The tartan truis or trousers date back to 1538 as a medieval style of woven tartan cloth trousers[1] as a garment preferably used during the Highland winter where the kilt would be impractical in such cold weather.[2] The word is triubhas in Scottish Gaelic. Truis or trews are anglicised spellings meaning trousers.Traditional trews were form-fitting garments, similar to the footed hose of the Renaissance, from which they probably evolved. (However, Tacitus says that in 69 BCE, the Roman general, Caecina, was considered, by his wearing of the foreign trews when meeting with toga-clad Romans, to show indication of a haughty spirit.[5]) They could be cut as Knee-breeches or full length. These trews were cut on the cross-grain (US bias), which allowed the fabric to stretch sufficiently to mould to the body, and placed the tartan "sett" on the diagonal. Traditional trews are actually long hose. These hose came all the way up to the waist and were attached to a linen cloth (NB: These were not trousers). They were fastened at the lower leg, below the knee, by a garter (the precursor to the flashes of the Highland Dress) as can be seen in the painting by David Morier of the Battle of Culloden. It is said in Scottish traditional folklorethat these triubhas were actually the common garment of the 16th to 18th Centuries in the Highlands.[6] It is also a fascinating note that when travelling, in order to avoid getting the trews wet when crossing streams, the Highlander would wear shorter hose, ones that would only reach up to the knee, and wrap his "bed-garments" around his waist, a form of the Great Kilt.
- kilt
- https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Scots-wear-kilts-What-was-the-practical-purpose A kilt was originally a blanket, worn by cattle drovers and shepherds, belted at the waist, and could be unrolled and used as a blanket at night to sleep in.The kilts you see nowadays with their pressed pleats and fancy embellishments are largely a Victorian invention, that has evolved from the original working man’s blanket-garment.
literature
- Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.Lang's earliest publication was a volume of metrical experiments, The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872), and this was followed at intervals by other volumes of dainty verse, Ballades in Blue China (1880, enlarged edition, 1888), Ballads and Verses Vain (1884), selected by Mr Austin Dobson; Rhymes à la Mode (1884), Grass of Parnassus (1888), Ban and Arrière Ban (1894), New Collected Rhymes (1905).
scots, scottish
- https://www.quora.com/Where-did-the-Scottish-come-from
scottish(language)
- 蘇格蘭兩種獨有本土語言中，蓋爾語（Scottish Gaelic）多年前因被禁止在校教授，一度瀕臨滅絕邊緣；另一本土語言蘇格蘭語（Scots language）則因與英語屬同一語族、共行發展而變成英語方言。當地政府早年開始挽救蓋爾語，卻對蘇格蘭語愛理不理。有當地作家坦言能否傳承乃至平反，則是路途遙遠。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191028/00180_023.html
- "-burgh"
scottish(language)
- 蘇格蘭兩種獨有本土語言中，蓋爾語（Scottish Gaelic）多年前因被禁止在校教授，一度瀕臨滅絕邊緣；另一本土語言蘇格蘭語（Scots language）則因與英語屬同一語族、共行發展而變成英語方言。當地政府早年開始挽救蓋爾語，卻對蘇格蘭語愛理不理。有當地作家坦言能否傳承乃至平反，則是路途遙遠。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191028/00180_023.html
- "-burgh"
- Old English burg, burh "a dwelling or dwellings within a fortified enclosure," from Proto-Germanic *burgs "hill fort, fortress" (source also of Old Frisian burich "castle, city," Old Norse borg "wall, castle," Old High German burg, buruc "fortified place, citadel," German Burg "castle," Gothic baurgs "city"), which Watkins derives from from PIE root *bhergh- (2) "high," with derivatives referring to hills, hill forts, and fortified elevations.The Scottish form is burgh. The Old English dative singular byrig survives in many place names as -bury.https://www.quora.com/If-Edinburgh-is-pronounced-Edimborough-why-dont-English-speakers-pronounce-other-burg-cities-the-same-E-g-Hamburg-Gothemburg-Saint-Petersburg-Pittsburg-etc
- foreign influence
- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Scottish-people-use-so-many-French-derived-words-in-normal-conversation-e-g-bonny-coup-grand-etc
- http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandssongs/index.asp
wee red book
- '101 Scottish Songs' published by Collins in 1962
- also an annual pocket-sized Scottish football publication by the Glasgow-based Evening Times
festival, celebration, events
- braemar gathering
- While there have been Gatherings of one sort or another at Braemar since the days of King Malcolm Canmore, nine hundred years ago, the Gathering has been run in its present form since 1832. During much of that time large crowds have come each year to acclaim their Monarch as Chieftain of the Braemar Gathering. The organisers of the gathering are the Braemar Royal Highland Society which was initially established as the Braemar Wright Society in July 1815, constituted in 1816 and formal registration in 1817, it remains the oldest surviving Friendly Society in the country. In 1826, the name of the Society was changed to the Braemar Highland Society and in 1866, Queen Victoria ordered that the title “Royal” should be added to the name of the Society. Since 1848, The Gathering has been attended regularly by the reigning Monarch and members of the Royal Family. The foot races at The Gathering are world’s oldest, having been organised on a regular basis by the same body since 1832.https://www.braemargathering.org/
- feud
- [future learn] Confessional coercion is evidenced in competing Clan Campbell and Clan Donald interests among the Macleods. In 1577, a party of Macleods sailed to the Isle of Eigg to seek revenge for the death of a kinsman. When they found the Macdonald population hiding in a cave, they set a large fire at its mouth, suffocating nearly 400 people, men, women, and children. Three years later, the Macdonalds enacted their revenge. Sailing around the head of Dunvegan on a Sabbath morning, they found the Macleods worshiping here in Trumpan Church.Barring the doors, they set fire to the roof, killing all but one lone survivor. The brutality of killing unarmed worshippers in a church has left an indelible mark on the memory of the clans. But religion may have had a part to play in this tragedy. Both these acts are rooted in revenge and blood feuds, but they were also fueled by the competition for territory around the Sea of the Hebrides. Perhaps what we see in the massacre at Trumpan is Macdonald rage against Macleod acceptance of Clan Campbell support. But more than that, it is possible that the Macleods had also accepted Protestantism at this point.only 6 of the 50 principal clans maintain their Catholic identities into the Jacobite period. They remain committed to Catholicism into the turbulent political years of the 18th century, partly because it provided political currency and upheld their distinctive identities. The influence of the Reformation was not wholly divisive. The [Colquhoun] Lairds of Luss, here, appear to have retained Catholic ministry for more than a decade after the Reformation, with the installation of a Protestant minister not occurring until 1574. Finally, on another note, through the Clearances of the late 18th and early-19th centuries, the religious cohesion of the clans eroded.
christianity
- [future learn] through the nascent kingdom of Dál Riata that Christianity entered the Western Isles and the north of Scotland.
celtic church
- [future learn] by the Middle Ages, leading clans sought to negotiate their Celtic religious past with the growing centralised nature of Catholicism as it came to be normalized along continental lines in the 12th century. To assert his claims to the lordship of the Isles, Donald, son of Somerled, travelled to Rome after killing his rival.According to one version, upon evidencing his contrition, the pope absolved Donald for the murder and granted him titles to his lands in Argyll, Kintyre, and the mainland. This authority was understood to exceed that of the Scottish crown and represented a claim greater than his original grant of the lands from the king of Denmark. At the same time, Clan Donald embraced and developed the tradition of the Celtic Church.
protestantism
- [future learn] Under the fifth earl of Argyll, Clan Campbell adopted a strong Protestant identity that served to align it to crown interests and position them as a leading client clan of the crown to be employed against unruly neighbours, particularly Clan Donald, the descendants of the lordship of the Isles abolished in 1493. The fifth earl of Argyll enthusiastically supported his chaplain turned bishop of the Isles, John Carswell, in the production of the first book ever printed in Gaelic, a Gaelic version of [John] Knox's Liturgy. Clan Donald came to identify crown and Campbell aggressions as being carried out under a banner of Protestantism. This served to reinforce cooperation among branches of the clan and enhance their espousal of Catholicism.
church of scotland (the kirk)
- established in 1560 by scottish parliament, in defiance of french catholic influence in edinburgh castle
- decidedly calvinist in both theology and ecclesiology
- in 1637 working with anglican archbishop william laud, charles I forcefully introduced a slightly modified scottish version of the anglican book of common prayer as the exclusive basis for protestant religious worship in scotland. This was met with a howl of official presbyterian protest.
- general assembly in 1638
- 修士門教堂 The Kirk of the Canongate, or Canongate Kirk, serves the Parish of Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town, in Scotland. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The parish includes the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Scottish Parliament. It is also the parish church of Edinburgh Castle, even though the castle is detached from the rest of the parish. The wedding of Zara Phillips, the Queen's granddaughter, and former England Rugby Captain, Mike Tindall, took place at the church on 30 July 2011. The Canongate was a separate burgh before it was formally absorbed by Edinburgh in 1856. By the late 1970s, the lower part of the Royal Mile, including the Canongate, had become unfashionable and run down. The local population was declining. The Kirk was threatened with closure, which was successfully resisted by the minister and congregation. Since then, circumstances have changed radically - notably with the construction of new flats in the vicinity as well as the new Scottish Parliament building.The church was founded in 1688 and completed in 1691.The Canongate Churchyard is the resting place of several Edinburgh notables including the economist Adam Smith, the philosopher and Smith's biographer Dugald Stewart, Agnes Maclehose (the "Clarinda" of Robert Burns), by tradition David Rizzio, the murdered private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the poet Robert Fergusson, whose statue in bronze by David Annand stands outside the kirk gate. Bishop James Ramsay is also buried here.
Anglican church
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20160907/PDF/b14_screen.pdf 一七四六年查爾斯．愛德華．斯圖亞特王子在悲烈的卡倫頓戰役（Battle of Culloden，又譯：卡洛登戰役）中被英格蘭打敗後，蘇格蘭聖公會陷入被壓迫時期，受一系列刑法規條管制打壓，監督實施刑法的軍人正是姊妹教會英國國教的教徒。蘇格蘭聖公會教徒，只能祕密做禮拜。直到一七九二年壓迫性法規才被廢除。一八一七年威廉堡才建成第一座聖公會教堂，一八七六年，日久失修的教堂被拆除，在原址以花崗巖再築聖安德魯教堂。
trees
- https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Scotland-so-treeless
Jacobitism (/ˈdʒækəbaɪˌtɪzm/ jak-ə-beye-tiz-əm;[1][2] Irish: Seacaibíteachas, Séamusachas, Scottish Gaelic:Seumasachas) was a political movement in Great Britain and Ireland that aimed to restore the Roman Catholic Stuart KingJames VII of Scotland, II of England and Ireland, and his heirs to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland. The movement took its name from Jacobus, the Renaissance Latin form of Iacomus, the original Latin form of James. Adherents rebelled against the British government on several occasions between 1688 and 1746.
- [future learn] Although eventually defeated by a British government army on 16 April 1746 at the Battle of Culloden, Jacobitism was not doomed to failure. It was a resilient, adaptable movement. While the Stuarts’ enemies deliberately emphasised the Catholic faith of the deposed dynasty, Scottish Jacobitism was largely Protestant in character. The Lowland Scots and Highlanders that fought for the Stuarts between the first military rising of 1689 and the last in 1745-6 did so for a variety of reasons. The Catholic clans remained loyal partly on religious grounds.Much greater numbers supported the Scottish Protestant Episcopal Church and the rights of the exiled royal family. After the 1707 Union between Scotland and England Jacobites also hoped to restore Scotland’s independence and parliament. The Union was unacceptable for other reasons. It excluded the Stuarts from their god-given birth right. The Union also consolidated the power of the Presbyterian Kirk, which became Scotland’s state church in 1692 after the fall of King James.This rejection of the Union explains why the largest of the Jacobite campaigns occurred after 1707. The risings of 1715-16, 1719 and 1745-6, as well as the attempts of 1708 and 1744 tried to end the Union, rearrange the balance of power between Scotland’s two Protestant churches, and restore the Stuarts.
- note the jacobite steam rail is the hogwarts express in harry potter
- Count Carl Gyllenborg (7 March 1679 in Stockholm – 9 December 1746 in Uppsala) was a Swedish statesman and author. After serving in the Polish War, he was sent to London as secretary of legation. There, he married the Jacobite Sara Wright. In 1715, he was made minister plenipotentiary, and two years later was imprisoned for five months because of his participation in the plot to reinstate the House of Stuart.
diaspora
- [future learn] The collapse in kelp and cattle prices and problems in the fishing industry after the 1810s culminated in the failure of the potato crop in 1846. This induced a short-lived famine and resulted by a series of forcible evictions and emigrations from the north west Highlands and islands. As a result, emigrants arrived in places such as the United States, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Canada. The aftermath of clanship resulted in the global dispersal of Highland Scots. Gaelic speakers migrating into the industrial cities formed organizations based on wider county and island identities rather than older kin-based loyalties. Family links did however remain an vitally important part of informal urban-Gaelic networks. Meanwhile, mass emigration between c.1760 and c.1960 resulted in approximately 3.2 million Scots settling in countries such as Australia, Argentina, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States. These large-scale population movements directly influenced the origins and nature of modern Highland games and clan societies.
- https://www.quora.com/How-did-Scottish-Gaelic-go-from-being-the-3rd-most-spoken-language-in-Canada-to-only-being-spoken-by-some-people-in-parts-of-Scotland Prince Edward Island was essentially 100% Scottish immigrants.
History
- The Wars of Scottish Independence between England and Scotland began in 1296 and initially the English were successful under the command of Edward I, having won victories at the Battle of Dunbar (1296) and at the Capture of Berwick (1296).[10] The removal of John Balliol from the Scottish throne also contributed to the English success.[10] The Scots had been victorious in defeating the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297, however this was countered by Edward I's victory at the Battle of Falkirk (1298). By 1304 Scotland had been conquered, but in 1306 Robert the Bruce seized the Scottish throne and the war was reopened. Edward II of England came to the throne in 1307 but was incapable of providing the determined leadership that had been shown by his father, Edward I, and the English position soon became more difficult. Stirling Castle was one of the most important castles that was held by the English as it commanded the route north into the Scottish Highlands. It was besieged in 1314 by Robert the Bruce's brother, Edward Bruce, and an agreement was made that if the castle was not relieved by mid-summer then it would be surrendered to the Scots.
- The Barons' Letter of 1301 was written by seven English earls and 96 English barons to Pope Boniface VIII as a repudiation of his claim of feudal overlordship of Scotland. It was, however, never sent. The letter survives in two copies, known as A and B, both held in the National Archives at Kewunder the reference E 26. Historically they were held amongst the documents in the Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipt department. The seals of the signatories to the letter survive in excellent condition. Although they are now detached from the document, they form the earliest contemporary group of true coats of arms, the rules of heraldry having only been established at around the start of the 13th century, and were stated for that reason by Lord Howard de Walden to be of very great value to students of heraldry.[1] Many of the armorials also appear in the near contemporary Falkirk Roll of Arms made before the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 and in the near contemporaneous stained glass shields in Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire.
- The Battle of Bannockburn (Blàr Allt nam Bànag, often mistakenly called Blàr Allt a' Bhonnaich in Scottish Gaelic) (24 June 1314) was a significant Scottish victory in the First War of Scottish Independence, and a landmark in Scottish history. Stirling Castle, a Scots royal fortress, occupied by the English, was under siege by the Scottish army. The English king, Edward II, assembled a formidable force to relieve it. This attempt failed, and his army was defeated in a pitched battle by a smaller army commanded by the King of Scots, Robert the Bruce.
- [future learn] Efforts by the Stewart monarchs to impose tighter control over the Highlands and Islands in the century following the forfeiture of the Macdonald Lordship of the Isles (1493) were hampered by a lack of continuity and long periods of weak regency. Dissatisfaction with the Stewarts and Macdonald ambitions for a restoration of the Lordship of the Isles fuelled risings in 1505-06 and 1545-46.The development of the Gàidhealtachd and Galldachd along different social lines also hampered attempts at royal control. Lowland society has been described as feudal with strong kinship influence. The Highlands, in contrast, had kinship and clanship as the dominant social structure – touched lightly by feudalism. In the Lowlands many of the ‘civic’ structures we recognise today such as courts, burghs, councils, parliament, sheriffs were the accepted, ‘civilised’ way of organising society. The language of civility was Scots, not Gaelic.King James the Sixth came of age in 1587 with well-defined views on his disorderly and ‘uncivil’ subjects in the Gàidhealtachd.Old ideas of making clan chiefs personally accountable for the actions of their followers were revived. A comprehensive list was made in 1587 of the heads of all the kindreds in the Highlands and Islands: 107 individuals were obliged to guarantee the good behaviour of their kinsmen under the pain of heavy fines and of legal proceedings against them in person. This policy was reiterated in 1594. The financial obligations created by these guarantees could result in debt and further legal sanctions.James set out his principles for kingship in his political manifesto, the Basilikon Doron of 1597. This includes one passage describing two types of Highlander: barbarous but capable of reform or ‘all-utterly’ barbarous and beyond redemption. This latter category – including Macgregors, Macleods of Lewis, and Macdonalds of Islay - needed to be rooted out, even exterminated. More amenable subjects were to be planted in their place. Plantation had been on James’s mind since 1589. A scheme was devsied to eradicate Macleod insubordination, nurture Lowland civility and develop the fishing industry in Lewis. This plan fell through, but James persevered and found a willing group of merchants to carry this out in 1598: the Fife Adventurers. These Lowland ‘planters’ were to establish civic outposts which would then ensure the barbarous Gaelic hinterlands imitated Lowland practices. Clan Macleod of Lewis defeated this group by 1602. Even after the Lewis scheme failed again in 1605-07, James persisted. By 1610, the island was conquered by the neighbouring Mackenzie clan, who pointedly referred to themselves as planters.The other projected plantation schemes met with mixed success. Lochaber never experienced any real attempt. But clan Donald south, in Islay and Kintyre suffered, like the Macleods, from clan disunity. Kintyre was granted to the Campbells in 1604. Despite resistance Islay followed, being granted to Argyll’s kinsman, Campbell of Cawdor in 1615.
- The Bishops' Wars (Latin: Bellum Episcopale) were conflicts, both political and military, which occurred in 1639 and 1640 centred on the nature of the governance of the Church of Scotland, and the rights and powers of the Crown. They constitute part of a larger politicalconflict across Scotland, England and Ireland, and are often considered a prelude to the English Civil Wars. They were so named due to the central conflict between Charles I, who favoured an episcopal system of church government for Scotland (that is, with bishops), and the desire of much of the polity of Scotland for a presbyterian system of governance (without bishops).
- wars of three kingdoms
- [future learn] The Wars of the Three Kingdoms were a series of conflicts which spread across the British and Irish Isles in the mid-seventeenth century.While the wars were rooted in the discontent generated by the rule of King Charles the First, they were also symptomatic of the structural changes occasioned by the Crown of Ireland Act in 1542, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the Plantation of Ulster in 1609. In Scotland the tipping point proved to be the imposition of the Book of Common Prayer in 1637. This was greeted with rioting in Edinburgh and the emergence of a protest movement led by disaffected nobles, gentry, burgesses (the urban merchant elite) and clergy.The movement was then consolidated by the drafting, circulation and subscription of the National Covenant the following year. The rivalry between the Campbells and Macdonalds was a significant component of the fighting which took place in Scotland between 1645 and 1647. The Campbells, and the Rosses and Munroes in the northern Highlands, supported the presbyterian agenda of the Covenanting movement. Conversely, Randal MacDonnell, marquis of Antrim and Irish chief of clan Donald south, aimed to recover his lost estates in Kintyre and revive the Lordship of the Isles. Meanwhile, the political stance of John Gordon, earl of Sutherland saw the Mackays join the Royalists to protect their lands in Strathnaver. Similarly, the operations of George Gordon, second marquis of Huntly in the central Highlands persuaded the Frasers and Grants to join the Covenanters.
- The Battle of Culloden (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart were decisively defeated by loyalist troops commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. Queen Anne died in 1714, with no living children; she was the last monarch of the House of Stuart. Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, she was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, a daughter of James VI and I. The Hanoverian victory at Culloden halted the Jacobite intent to overthrow the House of Hanover and restore the House of Stuart to the British throne; Charles Stuart never again tried to challenge Hanoverian power in Great Britain. The conflict was the last pitched battle fought on British soil.Charles Stuart's Jacobite army consisted largely of Catholics and Episcopalians, mainly Scots but with a small detachment of Englishmen from the Manchester Regiment. The Jacobites were supported and supplied by the Kingdom of France from Irish and Scots units in the French service. A composite battalion of infantry ("Irish Picquets") comprising detachments from each of the regiments of the Irish Brigade plus one squadron of Irish in the French army served at the battle alongside the regiment of Royal Scots (Royal Ecossais) raised the previous year to support the Stuart claim.[5] The British Government (Hanoverian loyalist) forces were mostly Protestants – English, along with a significant number of Scottish Lowlanders and Highlanders, a battalion of Ulstermenand some Hessians from Germany and Austrians. The quick and bloody battle on Culloden Moor was over in less than an hour when after an unsuccessful Highland charge against the government lines, the Jacobites were routed and driven from the field.
- after the war
- [future learn] Glengarry tacksmen such as Alexander Macdonald of Aberchalder and his cousin John Macdonald of Scotus emigrated rather than accept the new economic order. Their departure, along with many other tacksmen gentry from across the Highlands and Islands, represented a key part of the disappearance of the clans as a living community. Many multiple tenants and subtenants left with them. In 1773 alone over 425 from Glengarry and Glenmoriston settled in upper New York. Group migration resulted in Highland settlements in Nova Scotia, Quebec province, and the Carolinas. It has been estimated that around 10,000 Highlanders migrated to British North America between 1763 and 1775.
- people
- Sir William Wallace (Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas;Norman French: William le Waleys; died 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knightwho became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in September 1297. He was appointed Guardian of Scotland and served until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk in July 1298. In August 1305, Wallace was captured in Robroyston, nearGlasgow, and handed over to King Edward I of England, who had him hanged, drawn, and quartered for high treason and crimes against English civilians. Since his death, Wallace has obtained an iconic status far beyond his homeland. He is the protagonist of Blind Harry's 15th-century epic poem The Wallace and the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scottand Jane Porter, and of the Academy Award-winning film Braveheart (1995).
- Sir Simon Fraser of Oliver and Neidpath,Knight Banneret fought in the Wars of Scottish Independence. For a time he fought alongside Andrew Moray, and after that man's death, William Wallace. He led the Scottish victory at the Battle of Roslin alongside John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch(also known as "Red Comyn"). Consequently the English King, Edward I, marched north through Stirling taking Perth. As Edward approached Dunfermline, the Bishop of St Andrewsand the bishop of Glasgow along with Red Comyn met his army and submitted. Simon refused to swear fealty to the English King and did not attend. This defiance would later lead to his execution.[citation needed] In 1304, Fraser fought with William Wallace at Happrew and was defeated. Later Fraser fought for King Robert I of Scotland. He escaped from the King's defeat at theBattle of Methven, but was captured in 1306 at a subsequent engagement at Kirkencliff near Stirling by Sir Thomas de Multon and Sir John Jose. Fraser was sent to London, and hanged, drawn, and quartered in September 1306. His head was impaled on a spike on London Bridge, as were those of his brother, John Fraser, and William Wallace.
- Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets,[nb 1] was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest.As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) "Auld Lang Syne" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and "Scots Wha Hae" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country.
- although never been to australia, there are statues of him there (mentioned in time walks, info of statues https://thescottishaustralian.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/statues-of-robert-burns-in-australia/)
- The Chronica Gentis Scotorum or Chronicles of the Scottish People was the first substantial work of Scottish history. It was written by the priest John of Fordun, starting in 1363 until his death around 1384.
- Record at st andrews and melrose abbey
- Each township, and more usually, several townships, were controlled by a fear-tacsa-- in English, the tacksman. Tack is simply the Scots word for a tenant lease. Tacksmen were the crucial linchpin between the chief and the bulk of the clan. Often able to trace a direct kin relationship to the chief's family, they formed the Daoine-uaisle-- the clan gentry. The role of the tacksman was broadly similar within each clan. Their political and military function involved defending the dùthchas or heritage, upholding the power of their chiefs, and mobilizing the male population of their farms in the event of an outbreak of feud or wider national conflict. Tacksmen, in other words, were the officers of the clans' military levy.Their ability to raise manpower directly related to their role as agricultural managers. They were the social class directly responsible to the chiefs for rents, and were usually the only individuals with a formal written lease. Tacksmen managed their own tenants, known in Gaelic as tuathanach and, through them, the rest of the population. Multiple tenant families farmed each township. A key responsibility of the tacksman was to allocate sections of run rig land to these tenants on the basis of fertility, accessibility, and widely accepted ideas of customary practise.Long-term residence on a township, often calculated at three generations, meant that secure access to land represented the tenants' own immediate vision of their dùthchas, or heritage Tacksmen would assist tenants with supplies of seed, equipment, and ploughing animals. He resolved disputes over grazing and manuring rights, and organized the collection of the tenants' cattle and their sale to drovers. The proceeds of such sales, along with the transfer of food surpluses-- eggs, hens, wool, yarn, and dairy products, like cheese-- enabled the payment of rent to the tacksman, who in turn paid part of the rent to the chief.
Genealogy
- https://www.scottishroots.com Scottish Roots was established in 1984 in Edinburgh by father and son team Tony and Stuart Reid, to provide an ancestral research service for those who wish to discover more about their Scottish forebears - who they were, where they lived and how they were employed. Scottish Roots now employ a team of researchers all of whom have at least 25 years of experience using records at New Register House, Edinburgh. Tony Reid was head of the Library and Reference division of the European Parliament in Luxembourg. Stuart Reid is an honours graduate in Communication Studies and is also an experienced researcher having used the records at New Register House since 1984.
EU
- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-35160396 The European Court of Justice ruling instead recommends the introduction of alternative tax measures. The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon have both welcomed the ruling. The legislation to bring in a minimum price of 50p per unit was passed by the Scottish Parliament in May 2012. A legal challenge was brought by the SWA, which argued the Scottish government's legislation breached European law.
russia
- 英國傳媒上周六引述外交事務專家報道，中國和俄羅斯利用蘇格蘭作為「後門」，從而影響英國內政及破壞該國穩定。報道又指，中國利用其國際學術網對西方民眾進行輿論導向，試圖影響他們的對華態度。中俄暫未回應有關報道。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190106/00180_006.html
Uk
- Ragman Rolls refers to the collection of instruments by which the nobility and gentry ofScotland subscribed allegiance to King Edward I of England, during the time between the Conference of Norham in May 1291 and the final award in favour of Balliol in November 1292; and again in 1296. Of the former of these records two copies were preserved in the Chapter House at Westminster Abbey (now in The National Archives (United Kingdom) at Kew), and it has been printed by Rymer (Foedera, ~i. 542). Another copy, preserved originally in the Tower of London, is now also in The National Archives. The latter record, containing the various acts of homage and fealty extorted by Edward from Balliol and others in the course of his progress through Scotland in the summer of 1296 and in August at the parliament of Berwick, was published by Prynne from the copy in the Tower and now in The National Archives (United Kingdom) at Kew (Piece reference C 47/23/3). Both records were printed by the Bannatyne Club in 1834.
- [future learn] After 1746 the chiefs understood their future would now be as part of the British landed class. An obvious sign of this realignment is the way they began supplied manpower to Highland regiments in the British army. The heirs of executed Jacobites, such as Simon Fraser, younger of Lovat, raised tenantry for the Seven Years War (1756-1763) and the American War of Independence (1775-1783).As the British Empire expanded across the globe between 1750 and 1815, about 37,000 to 48,000 Highlanders fought in places as diverse as Western Europe, North America, the Caribbean, Egypt, South Africa and India. Military service helped to transform their reputation from rebellious barbarian to loyal subject. The figure of clansman associated with a particular chief and territory was transformed into the generic cultural stereotype of the Highlander.
- The Edinburgh Agreement (full title: Agreement between the United Kingdom Government and the Scottish Government on a referendum on independence for Scotland) is the agreement between the Scottish Government and the United Kingdom Government, signed on 15 October 2012 at St Andrew's House, Edinburgh, on the terms for the Scottish independence referendum, 2014. hkej 25may17 shum article
Germany
- felix mendelssohn composed symphony no3 (scottish symphony) after visiting holyrood
catalonia
- https://www.enterprise-europe-scotland.com/content/international_innovation_partnerships/collaborative_r_d_with_catalonia/ Scottish Enterprise and The Catalan Trade and Investment Agency (ACCIÓ) and are working together to directly fund international collaborative innovation projects between companies from both regions. Scottish Enterprise will invest around £1 million to support the Scottish elements of the projects, with similar levels from ACCIÓ for Catalan elements.
Vatican
- Cum universi (Latin: With the yoke) is apapal bull written by Pope Celestine III, issued on 13 March 1192.[note 2] The bull ended the claim of the Archbishop of York to metropolitan jurisdiction in Scotland and established an independent national church, albeit one with no figurehead.
Japan
- Thomas Blake Glover (6 June 1838 – 16 December 1911) was born at 15 Commerce Street, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire in north east Scotland on 6 June 1838, the fifth of eight children to Thomas Berry Glover and Mary Findlay. His father was a coastguard officer. Six years later, the family moved to Bridge of Don, near Aberdeen, his father having been promoted to Chief Coastguard Officer, and he was educated at Fordyce Academy.[1] Upon leaving school, Glover took a job with the trading company Jardine Matheson.In 1859, Glover crossed from Shanghai to Nagasaki and worked initially buying Japanese green tea. Two years later, he founded his own firm, Glover and Co. (Guraba-Shokai). His business was based in Nagasaki, and it was here that he had his home constructed, the building that remains today as the oldest Western-style building in Japan.
- Thomas Blake Glover, the “Scottish Samurai,” arrived in Japan in 1859 and over the next 52 years made and lost more than one fortune. He helped set up Mitsubishi and Kirin, developed shipbuilding and coal-mining in Japan and arranged for the first steam train to be shipped to the country. He also supplied weapons to the Satsuma and Choshu clans and smuggled the famous Choshu 5 out of Japan so they could study in Britain in preparation for the uprising that would lead to the 1868 Meiji Restoration. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/09/03/books/book-reviews/pure-land-story-thomas-blake-glover-scottish-samurai/#.V82JHFcVGf3
chinese
- sino scottish business awards
- Bank of China, and Sanpower - the parent company of House of Fraser - were among the six winners of the China-Scotland Business Awards, which celebrates growing businesses connections between China and Scotland. The winners were announced during the Chinese Burns Supper 2018 at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow on Thursday. It was the first time the annual gala dinner has featured the awards. The event also boasted a fusion of Burns Night traditions and Chinese New Year customs. http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201802/03/WS5a75209ea3106e7dcc13a8e5.html
- 最近，愛丁堡旅遊行動組（ETAG）發起了名為「China Ready」的旅遊宣傳活動，希望以獨特的方式慶祝春節。計畫包括從本周五開始，用大紅色照射燈，將愛丁堡城堡、Jenners百貨、Balmoral酒店、「暗箱（Camera Obscura）」攝影技術及幻象藝術中心、蘇格蘭威士忌體驗中心（SWE）、聖安祖廣場等名勝照得通紅。https://www.facebook.com/singtaodailyeu/photos/a.224486677751110.1073741827.224484584417986/811780865688352
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- vessel kai-sow sailed from london to shanghai in dec 1869 (arriving in march next year), passengers include missionary grace ciggie scott
- ship info http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=22000
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150728/PDF/a16_screen.pdf “蘇格蘭中國合作伙伴簽約儀式”27日在京舉行。蘇格蘭首席大臣尼古拉．斯特金（Nicola Sturgeon）出席並宣佈了中國和蘇格蘭企業達成的一系列新的合作伙伴協議。這些協議由十家蘇格蘭企業與中國私營領域合作伙伴簽訂，預計將為蘇格蘭經濟貢獻經濟價值約合4315萬英鎊（約合5.2億港元），並在蘇格蘭創造70個就業崗位。 據中新網報道：尼古拉．斯特金表示，蘇格蘭有望受益於中國的創新戰略，因為在對於中國未來繁榮來説至關重要的領域中，我們有?長期的知識專長。我們世界級的高校和研究基礎以及在能源、生命科學、技術、金融服務、娛樂等領域不斷髮展壯大的蘇格蘭創新企業，與中國在這些領域的長期投資計劃不謀而合。簽約儀式中所宣佈的合作伙伴關係協議包括：為華髮電廠提供環保方案 KAL─這家世界領先的自動取款機（ATM）軟件公司，將其零售櫃員機（RTM）推向了中國市場，並與九思泰達簽訂了一份新的合作伙伴關係協議。 關愛惟士（Care Visions）是蘇格蘭的國際醫療保健技術公司，研究向個人、社區和機構提供創非藥理學痴呆解決方案。該公司將在北京開設其首箇中國辦事處，並與中國合作伙伴簽訂了兩份諒解備忘錄。 峯能（Sgurr Energy）可再生能源公司與中國激光雷達製造商上海波色科技（OASIS）簽訂了一份合作伙伴關係協議，這將對公司的風電場優化服務交付起到補充作用。 英國賽摩凱有限公司（GB Therma-Chem）宣佈了一項突破性的蘇格蘭技術試驗，將為中國發電廠提供具有成本效益且碳排放量更低的解決方案。 阿伯丁大學（University of Aberdeen）與哈爾濱工程大學聯合開設一個新的工程學位課程。 Calnex Solutions作為研發電信測試與測量解決方案的提供商與中國移動研究院簽訂了一份協議，將幫助中國移動對下一代移動網路所需的網路設備進行評估。 Distrify Media成為了在中國簽訂分銷協議的首家歐洲視頻點播服務提供商，公司宣佈與未來電視（Future TV/CNTV）就在線視頻交付達成協議。評估移動網路所需設備 微數據（we.data）作為專注於足球和體育運動的蘇格蘭數據捕獲和分析公司與一家由中國國家女足前任隊長創立的公司簽訂協議，旨在推出業內最新的數據分析技術。 TEFLOrgUK─這家英語語言培訓提供商與21世紀教育傳媒／中國日報集團簽訂協議，將提供在線語言培訓服務。 愛丁堡龍比亞大學（Edinburgh Napier University）與中國網路全球醫生組織（Global MD）簽訂諒解備忘錄，將提供臨牀研究方面的研究生學位課程。 蘇格蘭國際發展局亞太區執行總監朱利安．泰勒（Julian Taylor）表示：“國際貿易與出口是企業實現增長的最有效方式之一，而很多蘇格蘭企業都在中國建立了長期並盈利的合作伙伴關係。今天，新協議的簽訂彰顯了蘇格蘭的獨到豐富經驗和來自一系列領域的高質量產品已被越來越多的中國企業所青睞。在這裏，很多蘇格蘭企業都擁有重大的機會在中國市場實現業務增長。”
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170331/00180_016.html英國蘇格蘭財政部長布朗（Keith Brown）於去年安排首席部長施雅晴，與兩間中資企業簽訂價值一百億英鎊（約九百六十億港元）的投資了解備忘錄，但遭到反對派質疑有關公司的背景。有英國傳媒揭發，兩間合作華企疑有不良背景。布朗日前在國會認錯並致歉。
- http://www.scotchina.org/index.php/about-us a non-profit, non-political and non-sectarian organisation for people who have an interest in all aspects of Chinese life and civilisation. The SCA holds a wide range of cultural events in Glasgow and Edinburgh to foster friendship and understanding between the people of Scotland and China.
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- http://www.chinadailyasia.com/business/2015-07/13/content_15289427.html "The increasing demand from China and the wider Asia region has certainly had a huge impact on overall exports. Food exports to China in 2014 were up a massive 82 percent to 46 million pounds, mostly due to a 92 percent increase in exports of fish and seafood," said Susan Beattie, head of food and drink at Scottish Development International.
- http://www.vinexpo-newsroom.com/lower-scotch-tariffs-china/ The Chinese Ministry of Finance has announced a tariff cut to boost sales of quality spirits and speciality products.
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160323/00178_011.html 中國再大手投資英國。蘇格蘭政府首席大臣妮古拉‧斯特金在當地時間周一宣布中國企業將在當地開發綜合型基礎設施項目，包括政府資助房屋、清潔能源、高鐵、智能城市等，總投資額高達一百億英鎊（約一千一百一十八億港元），並在當日與中國中鐵三局集團有限公司和中富（英國）集團簽訂諒解備忘錄。
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-03/23/content_24029204.htm China's involvement in Scotland's infrastructure projects will help improve itsground commuting system and is expected to spur local employment, industryexperts said on Tuesday. Scotland signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday with Chineseinvestment group SinoFortone Group and China Railway No 3 Engineering Group,the largest construction company in the world, to bring about infrastructureprojects with a potential value of 10 billion pounds ($14.3 billion). "With high-speed trains traveling at a speed of over 300 kilometers per hour, itcertainly will help Scotland change the situation in which its ground commutingsystems long been dominated by automobiles. And related projects can generate alarge number of jobs and construction materials supplying businesses," said LuoRenjian, a researcher at the Institute of Transport Research at the NationalDevelopment and Reform Commission. Luo said that even though China is a latecomer to the field in comparison with itsGerman and French rivals, its railway infrastructure building ability and railequipment companies have thrived thanks to cost advantages, reasonable deliverytimes and flexible financing models. The latest agreement will pave the way for significant investment in fields such asclean energy, transport and affordable housing, analysts said. At the agreement signing ceremony, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wasjoined at Bute House by Peter Zhang, the managing director of SinoFortone Group,Sir Richard Heygate, senior adviser for China Railway No 3 Engineering Group, andChinese Consul General Pan Xinchun. "We have been cooperating and engaging with China since 2007 and I furtherprogressed Scotland's business credentials during my trip last year, and thisMemorandum of Understanding will strengthen our economic links with China in anumber of areas," Sturgeon said.
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201804/23/WS5add4106a3105cdcf6519da9.html Perfect World Education Investment Co Ltd, the education branch of Beijing-based global entertainment group Perfect World Investment & Holding Group, has announced a 10-year partnership with Abertay University in the United Kingdom, which is known for its expertise in computer games. The partnership is expected to help the Chinese gaming industry gain a foothold in the video game markets worldwide amid intensifying competition. Under the partnership, PWEI will work with Abertay to deliver a new executive master's program in games development. The course will launch early next year and train 100 Chinese game developers every year.
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2018-08/15/content_36765342.htm Later this month, Merchiston International School will open its doors as the first school in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, to offer student living arrangements along with a British education. The school is the first overseas campus for the 185-year-old Merchiston Castle School.
- Chinese in Scotland
- views on referendum singtao 14sept14 a17 (including Fujian association)
- singtao 18sept14 a26
- http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-09/18/content_18617874.htm Joseph Deng, director of the wind turbine manufacturer Shanghai Ghrepower Green Energy Co Ltd's UK subsidiary, said that Scottish independence would harm Chinese businesses in Scotland, such as his own, because they will no longer be able to receive subsidies from the UK government. Several other businesses and associations that China Daily contacted declined to comment, including the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, which is believed to have expansion plans for Scotland.
- chinese in uk happy with rational choice http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2014-09/20/content_18632053.htm
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20150811/00180_034.html 英國蘇格蘭民族黨內唯一的華裔議員金嚴紅美（Yen Hongmei Jin，音譯），聲稱因遭到黨員種族歧視，但該黨卻未能妥善保護她，企圖將事件「藏在地氈下」，遂於上月決定退黨。廿九歲的金嚴紅美為代表鄧弗里斯及加洛韋的議員，但在今年二月舉辦一場籌款活動後，被黨員批評「沒有蘇格蘭血統」。她其後收到一封言詞侮辱的電郵，當中「當自己是蘇格蘭人的混蛋，但我們還要忍受他們」。金嚴紅美形容，這對她而言是涉及種族的人身攻擊及歧視，質疑她的工作能力。金嚴紅美曾向黨內反映，但六個月後仍沒回音。她稱黨總部只要求她呈交原本的電郵，及後便置之不理。金嚴紅美退黨後，以獨立政客身份繼續政治生涯。蘇格蘭民族黨的發言人表示，事件目前已交由警方處理，因此拒絕再作回應。
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20160930/PDF/b20_screen.pdf 黃宽first chinese studying overseas
- 蘇格蘭有紀錄以來，第一名居蘇華人，並未被歷史遺忘。據檔案顯示，這名「華工」抵達蘇格蘭後從事家傭，僱主是一名退休外科專家，這名華工後來成為了愛丁堡最厲害的會計師之一，兼任蘇格蘭教會（Church of Scotland）長老。這名華人進入公眾眼簾，是因為一宗入稟案件。1707年工會法實施，令華人William Macao成為蘇格蘭人，但只保留了兩年時間。24個月後，該法被推翻，William Macao要等多接近兩個世紀，才重新獲得承認，以愛丁堡為最後的家。https://www.facebook.com/singtaodailyeu/photos/a.224486677751110.1073741827.224484584417986/815272095339229/
- Gavin Tat Fai LEE, JP, honoured in 2019 for services to the Chinese community in Scotland. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/807440/BD19_Queens_List__3_.pdf
- 曹雅直 George Stott (1835-1889) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China with the China Inland Mission. In China he is widely credited, alongside William Edward Soothill, for laying the groundwork for the large number of Christian adherents in Wenzhou, ZhejiangProvince.Born in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of John Stott, a crofter, and his wife, Jane Anderson.In early 1865, Stott learnt that James Hudson Taylor was looking to recruit pioneer missionaries for his non-denominational China Inland Mission. Stott was duly hired, provided with a new artificial leg and set sail for China on October 4, 1865. Arriving in Shanghai on February 6, 1866, Stott quickly relocated to the port city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, where Christian teaching had been previously unknown. The oldest church in the city, Chengxi Christian Church, still stands as a testimony to his work. Died in Cannes.
- w e soothill (蘇慧廉) translated 論語into english and edited a dictionary of chinese buddhist terms
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- James Legge (/lɛɡ/; 20 December 1815 – 29 November 1897) was a Scottish sinologist, missionary, and scholar, best known as an early and prolific translator of Classical Chinese texts into English. Legge served as a representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong (1840–1873) and was the first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University (1876–1897). In association with Max Müller he prepared the monumental Sacred Books of the East series, published in 50 volumes between 1879 and 1891.James Legge was born at Huntly, Aberdeenshire. He enrolled in Aberdeen Grammar School at age 13[1] and then King's College, Aberdeen at age 15. After studying at the Highbury Theological College, London, he went in 1839 as a missionary to China, but remained at Malacca three years, in charge of theAnglo-Chinese College there. The College was subsequently moved to Hong Kong, where Legge lived for nearly thirty years. A Chinese Christian, Wat Ngong, accompanied Legge when he moved in 1844. He returned home to Huntly, Aberdeenshire, in 1846–7, taking with him three Chinese students. Legge and the students were received by Queen Victoria before his return to Hong Kong. Convinced of the need for missionaries to be able to comprehend the ideas and culture of the Chinese, he began in 1841 a translation in many volumes of theChinese classics, a monumental task that he completed a few years before his death. During his residence in Hong Kong, he translated Chinese classic literature into English with the help of Wang Tao and Hong Rengan, among others. He was appointed headmaster of Ying Wa College in Malacca in 1839 and continued in that position until 1867, the college having removed to Hong Kong in 1844. He was pastor of the Union Church in Hong Kong from 1844 to 1867. He was third and final editor of the Chinese Serial, the first Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong. The paper closed in May 1856. In 1867, Legge returned to Dollar in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, where he invited Wang Tao to join him, and received his LLD from the University of Aberdeen in 1870. While in Scotland, he also revisited his native burgh, Huntly, accompanied by Wang Tao. He then returned to Hong Kong as pastor at Union Church from 1870 to 1873. While in Hong Kong he published The She King (Classic of Poetry) in 1871 which according to Peter France is the first substantial volume of Chinese poetry in English translation still in use. The work underwent a new edition in 1876 in verse. He took a long trip to North China, beginning 2 April 1873 in Shanghai, arriving at Tianjin by boat, then travelling by mule cart and arriving in Peking on 16 April 1873, where he stayed at the London Missionary Society headquarters. He visited the Great Wall, Ming Tombs and the Temple of Heaven, where he felt compelled to take off his shoes with holy awe. He left Peking, accompanied by Joseph Edkins, and headed for Shandong by mule cart to visit Jinan, Taishan, where they ascended the sacred Mount Tai, carried by four men on chairs. Leaving Mount Tai on 15 May, they visited Confucius Temple and the Forest of Confucius at Qufu, where he climbed to the top of Confucius' burial mound. Legge returned to Shanghai by way of the Grand Canal, and thence to England via Japan and the USA in 1873.
- Tartan
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/12/18/a35-1218.pdf
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1581833/chinese-tartan-yet-catch-among-scotlands-kilt-buyers
- hairy crab
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- investors from scotland
- Hong Kong migrants
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1600763/chinese-hairy-crabs-invading-scotlands-river-clyde-raise-environmental, http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-29350840
- https://www.facebook.com/singtaodailyeu/photos/pcb.496555503877558/496555287210913/?type=3 由國務院僑務辦公室文化司主辦，廣東省惠州市外事僑務局及英國中文教育促進會共同承辦的2016年「中華文化大樂園-蘇格蘭愛丁堡春令營」，4月4日在愛丁堡中學（Edinburgh Academy ）順利閉營。愛丁堡市政府代表Ann Roberson、教師團團長兼惠州市外事僑務局游小慧副局長，與十一名教師團成員、英國中文教育促進會會長伍善雄MBE、愛丁堡愛僑中文學校校董鄧其樂等中文學校代表，以及來自英國各地的一百八十多名學生和家長出席了閉營儀式。首先由會長伍善雄致詞。他感謝惠州市外事僑務局帶來的「優秀中的優秀」老師，以自己的耐心和愛心，向孩子們傳送文化，播下了一顆顆熱愛中國文化的種子。
- 中國燈會https://www.facebook.com/singtaodailyeu/photos/a.224486677751110.1073741827.224484584417986/713356248864148
- 愛丁堡動物園舉辦中式燈節https://www.facebook.com/singtaodailyeu/photos/a.224486677751110.1073741827.224484584417986/728827953983644
- http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-08/02/content_30327000.htm In August, the focus of the international arts world turns to Edinburgh, where Chinese acts will play a major role at the Edinburgh Festival. More than a dozen performers from China will put on shows throughout the month at the world's largest arts festival, including offerings of music, theater and dance. The Center for Shanghai International Film Festival has organized China Focus, a group of seven acts that will travel to Scotland with the support of China's Ministry of Culture and the Scottish government's international enterprise agency, Scottish Development International. http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-08/02/content_30327000.htm
- Zhang Yimou made the overseas premiere of his new conceptual performance in Edinburgh Fringe Festival last Saturday and Sunday.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/weekend/2017-08/19/content_30817430.htm
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- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20161209/PDF/b21_screen.pdf香港蘇格蘭教育聯盟（ HKSEC）創辦人方志基的熱心支 持及贊助仁濟學生遠赴蘇格蘭進 行交流活動。
- st andrew's society www.standrewshk.org
- britcham has a scottish business group
- The Hong Kong Centre for Carbon Innovation is ECCI’s Hong Kong base and part of the University of Edinburgh.It’s also a platform for ECCI and the University to create innovation, learning and research activities in East Asia. Launched in 2015 by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, HKCCI’s other partners include Edinburgh Napier University, BRE Scotland, and the Scottish Government (through Scottish Development International).
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- The Centre builds upon a 2013 Memorandum of Understanding between the Hong Kong Government and the Scottish Government, and on the extensive alumni networks of the University of Edinburgh and the Global Scot networks and activities, to develop closer partnerships between Hong Kong and Scotland to address the key challenges presented through climate change and our transition to a low-carbon economy.
- http://www.hkstp.org/zh-HK/News-Media-Events/Events-Seminars/2015/Scottish_delegation.aspx Networking Reception with Scottish Delegation on 30 jul15
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/09/13/a22-0913.pdf格拉斯哥大學代表團今年5月到訪港大建立新合 作機會，高為元（前排左四）與校長馬斐森（前排 左五）等與代表團見面洽談。
- Alexander dennis http://www.scmp.com/tech/innovation/article/1845131/scotlands-first-minister-sturgeon-opens-hong-kong-low-carbon
- http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201709/0903/HT04903CLYY.pdf wkcd international project in edinburgh, collaborating with british council, creative scotland, creative new zealand
- meeting target cases???
- https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2019/01/actelligent-marks-hong-kongs-first-fintech-move-to-scotland/ Financial services tech specialist Actelligent is the first fintech firm in Hong Kong to establish a base in Scotland following a campaign to attract more companies from the island. The company will receive £305,000 of Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) funding from Scottish Enterprise to support the creation of 20 fintech jobs in Edinburgh. Actelligent is developing an online platform that will act as a hub between investors, private fund managers and retail investors and connect investors with new opportunities in overseas investment markets. The company plans to make the Edinburgh office its UK and European base, from which it will build a team of software engineers and architects.
- investors from scotland
- 愛丁堡低碳創新研究中心昨日宣佈，在香港科學園設立中心發展先進低碳技術，配合其打入亞洲市場的計劃。香港科技園公司董事局主席羅范椒芬、蘇格蘭首席部長尼古拉．斯特金、愛丁堡大學校長奧謝爵士及投資推廣署署長賈沛年博士出席愛丁堡低碳創新研究中心轄下蘇格蘭香港低碳創新研究中心的開幕禮。蘇格蘭香港低碳創新研究中心由愛丁堡大學、愛丁堡龍比亞大學、BRE Scotland及蘇格蘭國際發展局資助，在愛丁堡低碳創新研究中心的帶領下，與香港政府、學界及商業合作夥伴分享成功經驗，在香港共同發展低碳技術。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/07/31/a10-0731.pdf
- Scotland Re:Designed invest in artwell (wool from inner mongolia) hket 27mar17
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- 數年前移居英國的Ricky，現時手上有七個位於英國蘇格蘭阿伯丁市（Aberdeen）的單位放租，未到30歲身家已近千萬元http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20180418/00269_001.html
- Hong Kong migrants
- 在蘇港人擔心經濟變差 http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20140909/PDF/a14_screen.pdf
- 本身在格拉斯哥大學研究低下階層住屋的香港明愛專上學院社會工作高級文憑課程主任賴建國表示，蘇格蘭舊區重建工作，目標是要留住社區原有居民及保存原有鄰里關係。做法往往是在重建大廈旁建一座大廈，讓居民遷入暫住，當新大廈建成，居民就可搬回新建樓宇，「絕對不是先趕人」，也不像香港般整片拆建，更不會話拆就拆，官員要落區跟居民溝通，用甚麼顏色油漆、房屋設計等，因此重建項目可能需時十年。http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20140916/18867543
- second generation hk migrants do not have right to vote in upcoming referendum singtao 17sept14 a26
- singtao 18sept14 a26
- http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20140919/18871065移民蘇格蘭22年的羅倩棱為了國家變得更公平、更公義，年初豁出去，成立群組「HkforYes」，在當地校園及街頭四處宣揚爭取獨立的訊息，在她眼中，香港和蘇格蘭的情況很相似，她鼓勵正為民主奮鬥的香港人不要恐懼，為了更好的未來，要勇敢站出來。羅倩棱舉家在1992年移民，由元朗新田人變蘇格蘭人，今年26歲的她，大學修讀法律，畢業後和父母經營餐館，今年2月她積極投入獨立運動 singtao 19 sept14 a22 吳錦良, 吳穎欣
- 蘇格蘭柯克利斯頓近日出了一位神童，年僅11歲半的香港移民男童王博盧(Wang Pok Lo，譯音)在今年的蘇格蘭高級高等教育證書純數科考試中，勇奪A級佳績。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/08/08/a18-0808.pdf由本港移民到蘇格蘭 的羅宏博（Lo Wang Pok），只花兩年便 讀完英國中小學數學課程，今年更以十三歲之 齡完成英國公開大學（Open University）的 數學學士學位課程，並以一級榮譽畢業，他將 以 兼 讀 形 式 在 雪 菲 爾 大 學 （Sheffield University）修讀統計與醫療應用碩士課程。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170914/PDF/a11_screen.pdf
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20160325/00176_071.html蘇格蘭政府近年力推「銀彈政策」，以四千英鎊（折合港幣約四萬四千元）的獎學金，吸引海外生包括港生到蘇格蘭升學，相等於豁免半年至一年學費；港生於當地完成醫科或藥劑學後，回港通過相關考試亦可在港執業，成為另類升學途徑。有升學專家提醒港生，在決定到海外攻讀專業課程前，應先評估院校在港的認受性及回港執業的成功率。
- Hong Kong students
- 在蘇格蘭愛丁堡大學留學的香港國際學生會會長曾迪斌指出，在蘇格蘭任何有故事的建築物，蘇格蘭人都不會把它拆掉。http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20140916/18867547
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20160329/00176_020.html現年二十一歲的格拉斯哥藝術學院學生彭天慧，自小學四年級起立志要當室內設計師，愛繪畫創作，在文憑試考獲一科5*及四科4成績，雖獲派理大的時裝設計學士課程；「但我始終想讀室內設計，所以放棄咗（學位），去英國讀書。」今年初，天慧參加英國Retail Design Expo比賽，為英國時裝品牌Topshop設計其位於美國洛杉磯的旗艦店。天慧的設計擊敗一百名來自不同設計學院的學生，贏得在格拉斯哥著名室內設計公司和Topshop實習的機會。她說奪獎是很大鼓舞，對日後入行有很大幫助，更重要是得到父母的認同。她計劃畢業後留在英國發展，累積經驗後可開設自己的室內設計公司。
- cny celebration
- 2月7日農曆新年除夕之夜，由蘇格蘭華僑華人社團共同舉辦的2016年蘇格蘭華僑華人猴年春節聯歡會在愛丁堡隆重舉行，全蘇華僑華人、留學生和中資機構以及當地友人近千人齊聚一堂，共慶中國新年。這次活動得到中國駐愛丁堡總領館和中國銀行的大力支持。中國駐愛丁堡總領事潘新春和蘇格蘭政府文化、歐洲和外事內閣部長希斯洛、鄧迪市長 、斯特靈市長、福爾柯克市長、南艾爾郡市長和中國銀行（倫敦）副行長等嘉賓出席聯歡晚會。當天，具有二百多年歷史的著名愛丁堡聚會廳煥然一新。喜慶的大紅燈籠、中國結等元素把這座古老的建築裝飾得別具特色，富於變化的高清投影背景展現了多彩的中國傳統文化和民俗。在歡快的舞龍和民族舞蹈開場後，中外主要嘉賓登台向旅蘇各界同胞以及蘇格蘭朋友拜年。https://www.facebook.com/singtaodailyeu/photos/pcb.472125299653912/472123419654100/?type=3&theater
- Allan murray
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/2016-07/25/content_26204460.htm
Thanks to the generosity of the late deceased financier and art collector Allan Murray ,there is a distinct Scottish flavor about the interiors of the exclusive Hong Kong Club .Some 120fine Scottish landscapes are displayed on the club 's walls .The images are on long-term loan from the Allan and Carol Murray Collection .
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12167216/Allan-Murray-Hong-Kong-stockbroker-obituary.html A last representative of the breed of resourceful, hard-living expatriate Scots who built Britain’s commercial presence in Asia, Murray made his name on the equity broking side of Jardine Fleming – a joint venture between the trading house of Jardine Matheson and the London merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. There for many years he wrote a daily market report that helped win large volumes of orders for Hong Kong shares from European and American investors.
- 居港蘇格蘭記者撐獨立http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20140918/18870043
- fiona mcleish
- scottish legacy
- scottish chinese model hk tatler mar19
- of bagpipes and ceilidh http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/2014-09/17/content_18610182.htm
- links
- 廠商會「蘇粉」多撐統 http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20140928/00176_088.html
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