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This Week In Scottish History

12 October 1929 - This day 1929 saw the birth of Magnus Magnusson, writer and broadcaster. Born in Iceland, Magnus moved to Scotland when only a baby »

13 October 1713 - On this day Allan Ramsay, the Enlightenment painter was born raquo;

14 October 1788 - Today in 1788 the first steamboat experiment was held on Dalswinton Loch. Robert Burns was farming at Ellisland, just outside Dumfries, when he was invited by his landlord, Patrick Miller, to go out in a small experimental steamboat. The boat, which was fitted with an engine designed by William Symington, was the first paddle-propelled steamboat in the world, and Robert Burns was one of its first passengers »

The Selkie Bride
There is a widespread belief that seals can become human, and that on those magical nights, they shed their sealskins to sing and dance on the shore. This is a story of man's love and the lengths he'll go to keep his selkie bride ... read full story »

Feature Scottish Clan

MacLean / MacLaine

Lachlan MacLean married the daughter of the Earl of Argyll. The match was not a happy one and Lachlan took drastic action by stranding his wife on a rock and leaving her to drown. She was rescued by passing fishermen, and her kinsmen later avenged her by stabbing her husband to death.
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