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This is where you'll find a comprehensive resource on Scottish accommodations. Electric Scotland's Article Service where you can both read articles and post your own. Beth's Newfangled Family Tree is a monthly publication giving genealogy advice as well as what's hapening on the Scottish Scene around the world. This is where you'll find around 300 books on Scottish history that we've published on the site. Our pages where you'll find books and articles about Robert Burns and his work. Gives you some information on the business scene in Scotland. This is where you can view Scottish events around the world and add your own. Learn about the history of Clans and Families of Scotland and the Scots-Irish. The personal site of Alastair McIntyre where he's posted his own mini biography as well as his travel journals. 5 volumes worth of biographies relating to Significant Scots. A weekly newsletter about the political scene in Scotland from the Scots Independent Newspaper. Lots of Scottish recipes along with contributions from our visitors. Play our collection of online games. 6 volume Gazetter on the place names of Scotland. This is our page for trying to give you advice on Genealogy. A FAQ where you go to get answers to frequently asked questions. Information and pictures about Historic places in Scotland such as castles and other properties. Main index page for our very large history section. Children resources including over 800 children's stories and lots of online and offline games. A bit of a catch-all page where you find loads of pages about music, haggis, scots language, culture, religion, humor and lots more. Our nature page where you can explore information on Scottish Wildlife, Plants, Flowers and lots more. Our weekly newsletters archive. Thousands of pictures of Scotland for you to enjoy. Loads of poetry and stories for you to enjoy with many contributions from visitors to our site. Our very own Webcard program which you can use to send online postcard to friends and relatives. Huge resources about the Scots Diaspora around the world and here is where you can find this information. A continually building information resource on the Scots-Irish who emigrated to Ulster and then onto many parts of the world, especially the USA. Create your own family tree with our special software. You can also import and export gedcom files. Our web-based scottish search engine which is a free resource for Scottish companies as well as Scottish organisations around the world. Current Scottish News headlines and links to Scottish news resources. A range of services, both big and small, that we currently offer. Our Tartan pages, giving you access to information on Tartans as well as tartan search engines. Sponsored by House of Tartan. Our travel section where we have loads of suggested tours of Scotland as well as old historic travel books. A wee collection of videos some of which we've produced ourselves. Learn about the last 100 pages we've added to our site which is updated daily.


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  • Scots in the 21st Century
    Talk given by Irene McGugan at the Symposium on Language and Politics - Belfast (23 - 25 August 2001)

  • The Nature of Scottish Nationalism
    Paul Scott recently gave a paper to a conference in Strathclyde University on the nationalism of three 18th century poets, Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns, and on the nature of Scottish nationalism. These are the concluding paragraphs of the paper.

  • Men of Bute
    The 705 anniversary of the Battle of Falkirk.
  • William Wallace & Robert Burns
    This was a talk given to the Society of William Wallace at Elderslie Village Hall on Tuesday 19th February 2002 by David Brown.
  • Scottish Parliament
    The following is an edited version of the address given by Irene McGugan. MSP (SNP) at Trinity College, Dublin on the 26th. Nov. at a meeting organised by An Comhaontas Ceilteach (Celtic Alliance, TCD) and the Irish branch of the Celtic League (with early assistance from our Scottish branch).

  • Stewart Hosie's maiden speech
    Stewart Hosie, SNP MP for Dundee East, made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on Monday 23rd May 2005

  • Conference Speeches, Dundee
    Speeches by Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, taken from the SNP pre-election campaign conference in Dundee, March 2005.

  • Conference Speeches, Aviemore
    Speeches by Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, taken from the SNP conference in Aviemore, September 2005.

  • Conference Speeches, Dundee
    Speeches by Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, taken from the SNP conference in Dundee, April 2006.      John Swinney’s tribute to Margaret Ewing.

  • Conference speeches, Perth
    Speeches by Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, taken from the SNP conference in Perth, October 2006.

  • Conference speeches, Glasgow
    Speeches by Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, taken from the SNP conference in Glasgow, March  2007.