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Earliest sporrans (circa 1710) (9 replies)
Some Tartan History (0 replies)
18th century scottish regiments (16 replies)
Today in History - August 15 (3 replies)
pre-1800 Highlander portraits (17 replies)
Looking 4 - Scottish dress cultural preservation groups/community organisations (0 replies)
Balmoral Highlanders silver (19 replies)
Charles' sporrans (1 replies)
Jacobite era kilt hose - knitted or sewn ? (5 replies)
Jacobite era kilt hose - knitted or sewn ? (16 replies)
Very interesting Pipers Tunic just had to share (5 replies)
when the change (15 replies)
Jacobite shirt origins? (13 replies)
Button Shape (6 replies)
interesting Gaelic child's sporran (1 replies)
Antique / Vintage Sporran Question (7 replies)
Remote Scottish village in Upstate New York (1 replies)
Bagpipes used to be classified as weapons of war, and that led to a modern twist (1 replies)
Sporran Question (20 replies)
The Battle of Newburn, fought 382 years ago on Aug 28, 1640 (0 replies)
Execution of William Wallace (2 replies)
New book (0 replies)
Did highlanders 'trouserize' their kilts during the bans? (12 replies)
Who made the Scottish people? series on Facebook (0 replies)
British militaria (1 replies)
Assaye parade (9 replies)
Where do clan crests come from? (3 replies)
Pipers at Balmoral 2021 (0 replies)
Regimental 'row' going into WWI trenches (7 replies)
Gab about guga (9 replies)
Best place to get Haggis in the US? (6 replies)
Edmund Burt's Letters... (7 replies)
Military Artwork Found (0 replies)
42nd highlander regiment double breasted doublet in Crimea..... (10 replies)
Vintage military kilt cloth query (16 replies)
Heritage Crafts Association (1 replies)
Seaforth officers' shopping list (24 replies)
Origin and Evolution of "Day" sporrans (2 replies)
79th foot regiment uniform details? (9 replies)
What is this dagger-like thing at the end of the sporran chain? (7 replies)
Toronto police pipe band- 1912 (7 replies)
post-WWII Scottish immigration to California (5 replies)
Highland costume in world context (7 replies)
Happy Anniversary US Army Veterans (0 replies)
The Highland Subaltern (16 replies)
the Saffron Shirt (0 replies)
the red hackle (6 replies)
Jim McIntosh RIP (0 replies)
P/m Crease follow up (11 replies)
P/M Tony Crease RIP (0 replies)
Portraits and Photographs - Piper to the 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane (11 replies)
Where can I find out about the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders during the Great War? (10 replies)
Royal Company of Archers (2 replies)
Interesting youth pipers photo (0 replies)
ISO old photograghs: Alec MacMillan and G.S. McLennan (4 replies)
Minden Day (0 replies)
Gaelic Language (0 replies)
RROS celebration (0 replies)
The 5 Dominant Families Of Scotland (8 replies)
June 6th (4 replies)
Victorian Piper's Kit on Campaign: Boer War Zulu War, etc. (14 replies)
What's in a name (21 replies)
New information re DW Stewart, author of Old and Rare Scottish Tartan's (1893) (6 replies)
6.5 yard box-pleated Cameron kilt (3 replies)
Did Lowland Scots have a different look than the Highland Scots during the Regency Pe (13 replies)
WW2 History and Piping connoiseurs (3 replies)
What is a Doublet? (13 replies)
To fellow pipers and British military history buffs. (3 replies)
another mislabelled Ebay photo (1 replies)
Isabella MacTavish Fraser wedding gown reconstruction (5 replies)
WW2 Action (7 replies)
273 Years Ago Today (0 replies)
Strathconas (6 replies)
Biography of DW Stewart, author of 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893) (14 replies)
Need some help with Glencoe Research from thos who live in the Highlands (2 replies)
Black Watch Pipers (6 replies)
Royal Canadian Legion's Periodical (7 replies)
Scots migrated to Arygll circa 500 AD - or was it the other way around? (4 replies)
Online article about the Romans in Scotland (2 replies)
Slaves in America wearing tartan (8 replies)
let's look at vintage check tweed (45 replies)
Question from the NLATD....... (23 replies)
Gathering of the Clans print (3 replies)
An extraordinary Highland Revival Coat (3 replies)
George V interesting kilt (3 replies)
Edward VII at Balmoral (10 replies)
Diced Glengarry. (58 replies)
Late 17th century portrait showing Highland Dress (16 replies)
Anniversary of Glencoe, Febuary 13. 1692. (36 replies)
Feast of St. Margaret Traditions (13 replies)
WW1 Scottish doublet tunic - information wanted (9 replies)
"Outlander" from a HISTORICAL perspective..... (28 replies)
Ubiquitous Sporran Anachronism (16 replies)
Range of Tartan and Historical Highland Dress (14 replies)
An early Victorian outfit (4 replies)
Robert Grant of Lurg (9 replies)
Sir Alexander Macdonald c1772 - an interesting outfit (11 replies)
Where is this portrait? (6 replies)
Highlanders and the American Revolution. (6 replies)
Art of Conflict (4 replies)
Blair history (10 replies)
The 42nd Foot/Blackwatch at Fort Ticonderoga (18 replies)
Anniversary of Culloden (12 replies)
Anniversary of Culloden (0 replies)
New(ish) theory about the battle of Culloden (5 replies)
Anniversary of Collden + two Canadian re-enactors (24 replies)
Bushyhead and Scotchie (2 replies)
Cape Breton 1970's (0 replies)
R.R. McIan print question "The Feud" (7 replies)
Welsh with Scottish history: Hen Ogledd and Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd (0 replies)
A kilted soldier's story. (9 replies)
Scottish Highland Christmas Traditions and Holiday food. (17 replies)
A collection of books (2 replies)
Photo of piper in Crimean War (4 replies)
Kelly wearing MacDonald tartan (12 replies)
Jacobite Living History - My Impression (29 replies)
Auld Dubrach (0 replies)
an old highland funeral (10 replies)
Argyle Hlders (B)? (12 replies)
Battle of Culloden's 270th anniversary to be marked (15 replies)
Outlander, s'more (19 replies)
Stone of Destiny a Lowlander? (0 replies)
what do you make of this sporran? (5 replies)
Penn York Highlanders (3 replies)
Sad day in Scotland's history (8 replies)
interesting 78th Highlanders photo (10 replies)
Vintage Lawrie & Other Sporrans, Patent No 174,788, & W.E. Scott (2 replies)
WWI Canadian Highland regimental photo (6 replies)
Highland, Lowland, evolution? (15 replies)
Interesting Collection in Melbourne Australia. (3 replies)
Thought provoking questions (14 replies)
Boston Highlander, curious pair (1 replies)
Anyone recognize the regiment, of this piper? (8 replies)
Dunans Castle gift box (5 replies)
Tartan Advertisement (0 replies)
more bogus Ebay "military officer's sporran" claims (7 replies)
kids in Highland military uniforms (12 replies)
military sporran challenge (23 replies)
Tobacco Highlander - which regiment? (8 replies)
what battalion? (RRS) (17 replies)
who are the Gilnockie Highlanders? (14 replies)
Hadn't seen this ... (6 replies)
Ebay listing a tad off? (3 replies)
"Military Officer's sporrans" on Ebay (12 replies)
The brave Highlanders (0 replies)
Lyon & Turnbull - Jacobite Sale 13 May (1 replies)
Culloden anniversary (7 replies)
Great War Cauldbaums (11 replies)
Rome Italy 1944 (5 replies)
Broadcloth in great kilts? (9 replies)
Black Watch 'tombstone badge' (6 replies)
By Appointment to the late King George V kilt (7 replies)
A question on holding the bagpipes. (7 replies)
DNA can change everything (72 replies)
"F.P.H."? Mystery Highland soldier (14 replies)
Australian Highland Dress in 1898 (17 replies)
MacInnes crest/coat of arms tattoo (18 replies)
The average Scot and Clan association or affiliation. (3 replies)
Order for Glencoe massacre goes on display (21 replies)
Here is an interesting auction (6 replies)
Great Estates of Scotland (2 replies)
A question on my claim of Scottish Heritage. (19 replies)
Major Duncan Campbell Black Watch of the Ghost story 1758 gets new headstone (7 replies)
Scottish clan map (13 replies)
farby ACW bagpiper figurine (6 replies)
CAMPBELLS IN THE APPIN MURDER AND TICONDEROGA and American Revolutionary War (2 replies)
Today in Stewart/Stuart history... (3 replies)
Culloden Homecoming: A Celebration Of Highland Culture (5 replies)
Gordon Highlanders WWI (4 replies)
My Scottish Ancestry (8 replies)
Two Canadian pipers, two different stories (3 replies)
On this day in Scottish history (Aug. 23) (5 replies)
Inverness Kilt Society (4 replies)
Evolution of Scottish National Dress in vintage catalog illustrations (78 replies)
"Piece of Bonnie Prince Charlie's Tartan and Jacobite Ring on Auction" (8 replies)
OLD sporran how old ? (12 replies)
Highlanders' Territorials (8 replies)
Highland Regiment Uniforms When Deployed...Then And Now (18 replies)
98 Years Later: Memorial to be held for McCrae's battalion on anniversary of Somme (3 replies)
98 Years Ago Today: the London Scottish marching on the Doullens-Amiens Road. (0 replies)
Canadian Pipers at Mons, Belgium 1917 (6 replies)
96 years ago: 14 June 1918 Royal Highlanders at Arras, France (0 replies)
On this day in Scottish history (7 replies)
Sounds familiar (2 replies)
J&R Glen - Just before Closing (2 replies)
96 years ago today: Highlanders at a ruined shrine near Sailly-Labourse, France (2 replies)
Interesting Photo on that auction website (9 replies)
Light-hearted South African Highlanders in WW1 (5 replies)
Lord Lovat (9 replies)
Quest for Quaich knowledge (1 replies)
Use of the term "the Younger" (4 replies)
they did it ....woooohoooo (4 replies)
Culloden anniversary (9 replies)
96 years ago today: wounded Jock and others at Gézaincourt (4 replies)
96 years ago today: 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders in France (6 replies)
Dustman saves 5,000 rare First World War photos from rubbish dumps (4 replies)
On this day: Highland clearances began (9 replies)
Unknown Hunting Scene (28 replies)
Lost Bonnie Prince Charlie portrait found in Scotland (6 replies)
A Thread of History (12 replies)
Scotish Christmas Tree (0 replies)
Kilts and Covenanters (29 replies)
The Stuarts (5 replies)
Clann Iain Abrach: A Film and a Documentary (3 replies)
Charge of the London Scottish (0 replies)
Three Highland Officers circa 1901-1906, (0 replies)
Unusual kilt and outfit - GGG-Grandpa (9 replies)
New member - St. Andrews Society of Albany NY (4 replies)
Jacobite Exhibition in York (2 replies)
Scot ancestors, either Canadian military or Scot? (20 replies)
Black Watch in DC 1963 (5 replies)
Stephens as a Sept of Mactavish (1 replies)
Scottish and Native American pictures (16 replies)
Any Houstons from Scotland ? I need help! (0 replies)
Dicing on bonnets (16 replies)
A Friend of the Family and her Tartan (5 replies)
Looking for information about a clan chief. (7 replies)
Why Might A Clan NOT Have A Tartan? (32 replies)
Duelling Bagpipes in PEI! :) (6 replies)
Restoration of the Black Watch Cairn (1 replies)
Very interesting... Loyalist Highlanders in the American Rev. & Move to Canada (6 replies)
Australian Memorial To Highland Emigrants from Clearances! (1 replies)
Canada & The Scots: Memorial to Highlanders in Manitoba! :) (1 replies)
Family History: Ulster Scottish Immigration to the U.S.A. (12 replies)
The Cape Breton Highlanders (for TowGuy and other relatives/interested members) (3 replies)
Can anyone idenitify the regiment and/or city in this photo? (old) (23 replies)
Question for Americans please (re Scottish-American regiments??) (30 replies)
Captain John MacDonald of Glenaladale (0 replies)
A little bit of historical help. (8 replies)
Scottish Clearances (37 replies)
Happy Birthday, Robert the Bruce! (2 replies)
Canada and the Scots (25 replies)
Bannockburn 2014 (117 replies)
Online Course? (2 replies)
" 'Amazingly rare' letter written by Robert the Bruce to Edward II found" (9 replies)
My recent ancestral find (14 replies)
Gaelic culture on exhibit at Museum of Natural History (0 replies)
For the historian of all things Scottish (1 replies)
Gaelic Awareness Month (12 replies)
A History of Scotland (10 replies)
There's Gaelic in the fiddle and there's Gaelic in the pipes. (6 replies)
Gaidhlig Psalms from the Isle of Lewis (6 replies)
Gaelic show about Cape from 70's (3 replies)
The Blood is Strong Documentary (40 replies)
Commonwealth of Nations (58 replies)
Carmichae l Collection goes online! (5 replies)
Help from Shaw's in Texas (6 replies)
Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry, Ontario 1812 (5 replies)
Scots Language Wikipedia (20 replies)
stirring clockwise? (12 replies)
Battle of Flodden - 500th anniversary (7 replies)
Scottish cuisine (0 replies)
Giant Fiddle (3 replies)
An interesting bit of kilt-related historical ephemera (1 replies)
The Battle of Glenshiel (15 replies)
The Highland Heart of North America (34 replies)
One in ten Scots men descended from Picts (9 replies)
King Robert I (6 replies)
Saint Patrick (3 replies)
c1850 Cunningham sword on Antiques Roadshow (2 replies)
Question...from a newbie (10 replies)
Fergus I kilted image from 1792 (5 replies)
Canada Post releases stamp commemorating The Black Watch (RHR) of Canada (4 replies)
Pipes at a wake/funeral (11 replies)
Kirk, church, chapel? (35 replies)
Debateable Lands - In Search of the Border Reivers DVD (5 replies)
In Search of Robert Burns (3 replies)
The Highland Clans TV series (28 replies)
Question about kilts and freemasons (8 replies)
Welsh ancestry (13 replies)
Scotland's Jews (36 replies)
43rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot (17 replies)
Robert Roy MacGregor (9 replies)
Buchanan's Regiment (4 replies)
distinction between dress plaid and hunting plaid (32 replies)
1908 Scottish Postcard (3 replies)
Scottish Settlement of Darien, Georgia (30 replies)
( Ogle ) Border Reiver ? (8 replies)
Need help with a novel (17 replies)
St. Margaret of Scotland day! (0 replies)
Regional association with jacket cuff styles? (25 replies)
Canadian Scottish Regiment Centennial Parade (21 replies)
British Newspapers (3 replies)
Scottish man dies, taking town's dialect with him (2 replies)
Late-Medieval Aristocratic Landownership in Shetland and the "The lords of Norroway" (8 replies)
new scottish DNA study (76 replies)
Chief Walking Stick... (56 replies)
Black Watch Regimental History (3 replies)
Kilts in WW1 (14 replies)
Exhibition of Tartan Portraits (20 replies)
Trying to find info about a painting (6 replies)
Laying Down Of The Black Watch & 1/51 Colours (9 replies)
New Disarming Act (26 replies)
Visit to scotland (6 replies)
rite of passage (21 replies)
Assistance requested from the Historians amongst the Rabble! (3 replies)
How do I find out the clan? (5 replies)
Kilts and Falconry (18 replies)
Kilts in the old west (21 replies)
78th Highlanders and The Battle of Jersey (16 replies)
Scottish Pirates? (25 replies)
Jacobite sanctions to be lifted? (25 replies)
Info needed on Murder of Glencoe (9 replies)
Captain Cuninghame 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (20 replies)
Interesting book, "The Victorians and Edwardians at Play" (6 replies)
Highlander Kilts, 7 Years War, Ohio Valley (Osprey Book) (15 replies)
WWI Canadian Highlander Question (12 replies)
Historical Plain Dress with the Kilt? (34 replies)
Scottish and Irish Military (4 replies)
Help needed - Royal Aberdeenshire Highlanders tartan (8 replies)
History of immigration between Ulster and Caithness (15 replies)
St. Patrick's Day Blue??? (1 replies)
Scotland's National Attire (38 replies)
Murray/Blackwatch. Why so similar.? (16 replies)
Kilts and Cyclists (23 replies)
Clans Fraser & Fraser of Lovat (1 replies)
The Kilt's use in Irish Nationalism (135 replies)
Kilts in WWI (2 replies)
Culloden/'45 film? (3 replies)
Kilties in the Zulu Wars? (16 replies)
Deciding to stick with one clan (30 replies)
Glencoe Massacre ceremony (2 replies)
A proper address to the Haggis.... (8 replies)
Loyalists in the Revolutionary War (37 replies)
Clan Barclay: Yet Another Scottish Influence on America (1 replies)
Argentina (7 replies)
"History of Scotland" kaput (7 replies)
Help with Royal Scots Badges(?) Identification (5 replies)
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time (4 replies)
Clan MacMutt (16 replies)
FSA (Scot) (14 replies)
Traditional Healing Methods (6 replies)
Middle TN Scots (6 replies)
Clan Munro (3 replies)
Capt. David Gregg & David MacGregor (4 replies)
Tartan in the mid to late victorian era (12 replies)
History question (13 replies)
Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk (8 replies)
79th New York Veterans (6 replies)
Last of the Highland Brigade (4 replies)
Clan Mackintosh of North America annual brunch (5 replies)
Finding my heritage. (8 replies)
Need help finding the correct tartan, please. (14 replies)
Non-Scot is Gaelic Bard for first time (5 replies)
Argyll Colony (6 replies)
Where do I start!!! (9 replies)
Swords (36 replies)
Edwardian Sporran (1 replies)
Certificate of Irish Heritage (15 replies)
King Robert the Bruce (18 replies)
Bhc (0 replies)
Evilbay find. (14 replies)
WW1 Cameron Highlanders Glengarry..... (8 replies)
scots' worldwide dispersion (2 replies)
Portrait of Sir James Duff, 5th Earl Fife (8 replies)
my visit to Culloden. (13 replies)
Portrait of Lachlan Macpherson of Glentruim, Laird of Glentruim (8 replies)
Cladh Hallan Mummies (7 replies)
World war 2 Black watch kilt (2 replies)
who kilt who? (10 replies)
Scots men 'more manly than English or Welsh' (7 replies)
Clan Maclellan or McClelland (0 replies)
Tower Guide (11 replies)
Robert Burns Poetry (11 replies)
best Burns Quotes?: I'm doing Research for Burns' Night! (8 replies)
Historic Districts of Scotland (8 replies)
Scots in South America (18 replies)
my i.d (13 replies)
Scots day - Fort Ticonderoga (7 replies)
Looking For MacDonald History (11 replies)
Memorial Day: Remembering the Scottish Generals of the US War of Independence (6 replies)
Not just another Confederate post...but (7 replies)
1865 Reproduction Riding Habit (15 replies)
Rab Wilson, a great Scottish bard in our midst. A review: (4 replies)
An Infantry Officer with the Eighth Army (6 replies)
The Cowboy and His Kilt (9 replies)
Can I "officially" where the tartan (12 replies)
American Monarchist?? (29 replies)
266 Years Ago... Yesterday (12 replies)
Born Fighting (3 replies)
Remembering Scotland at War (2 replies)
Medieval Castle in Arkansas??? (24 replies)
Historical Targe Images? (6 replies)
Please, enlighten me. (3 replies)
How accurate are the online tartan/clan locators? (19 replies)
Castle question (6 replies)
BBC 2,Scotland's Clans, Clan Cameron? (12 replies)
Superb Website (0 replies)
Lowlander Sword? (4 replies)
The History of Scotland Documentary (6 replies)
The Battle of Bannockburn. (6 replies)
How the Scots invented Canada - CBC podcast (11 replies)
Dunollie House - Opens this summer (4 replies)
Inverness Castle-Flora MacDonald (12 replies)
Presentation to Girl Scouts, for your review. (26 replies)
Good overview book on Jacobite uprising? (12 replies)
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum (4 replies)
Stone of Destiny on Netflix (6 replies)
Derrick's The Image of Irelande (1581) & Irish Clothing (36 replies)
Highland unit uniforms (12 replies)
Irish Saffron Kilt (37 replies)
Am Baile Digital Library (5 replies)
Finding myself through my ancestors... (39 replies)
The History of Scotland (full series) (15 replies)
History of Scotland series online (21 replies)
Scots colloquialisms (37 replies)
MacGregor hospitality (13 replies)
Lochaber Axe (7 replies)
Baron Alvis of Lee (0 replies)
Vikings afraid of Scots? (12 replies)
Celtic History?? (71 replies)
The Viking Thing (15 replies)
Rob Roy MacGregor's Sgian Dubh? (19 replies)
Culloden Battlefield (14 replies)
What to include? (7 replies)
I need info on the original 78th Highlanders (13 replies)
Lecture series in Vancouver (0 replies)
Scotland & the Wider World ~ Podcasts (1 replies)
New Scottish Military Site (4 replies)
"Highland Regiment"...? (18 replies)
The sgian as a weapon for fighting (108 replies)
Scottish Traditions (34 replies)
Castle Tioram Regiment (1 replies)
Historical Drummies' Question (12 replies)
Interesting 1773 Description of Kilt (22 replies)
Thirteen Moons (0 replies)
Lt.-Col. Macpherson and Clan Chattan Diaspora (1 replies)
Information on Kilts (12 replies)
Rory Bremner and the Fighting Scots (1 replies)
Jacobite Flag Raised by Angus Regiment at Culloden Goes on Display (3 replies)
The Scots Have Influenced My Culture, What Do I Do? (39 replies)
Favorite Historical Highland Place? (9 replies)
Kilted "Regiment" at Reading Air Show (20 replies)
Greatest Ever Scot (84 replies)
Scotland's Dining Heritage? (88 replies)
A forgotten hero of Canada (10 replies)
Hibernial dress, caledonial custom: A brief history of irish kilts & tartans (17 replies)
Hebridean Emigration (1 replies)
Scottish Enlightenment Interests? (13 replies)
Bagpipes vs. Trombones (7 replies)
Balanced treatment of Ulster history (74 replies)
Ethnic Group Recognition in Nova Scotia (4 replies)
"Leatherlungs" (9 replies)
John Stuart-Forbes, 7th US Cavalry (4 replies)
12th Illinois Infantry Regiment, USV (1 replies)
Thank You! (2 replies)