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Published today! The latest instalment from @ethylsmith of her #historical series that eloquently portrays the lives of ordinary men and women in 17th century #Scotland as they fought to survive in extraordinary times. #Covenanters

A review of Ann Shukman's 'Bishops and Covenanters: The Church in Scotland 1688-1691' - and an elegy for the Restoration Church of Scotland. https://t.co/anPcY48oSY

Make Your Way Forth - Darmead Covenanters Memorial Walk Starting at Black Law Windfarm entrance near Climpy, heading over to the remote Darmead Muir, or Darmead Linn as it is sometimes referred to. https://t.co/HGtwHjmHUU #CommunityEngagement #nature #walking

Yesterday was the anniversary of two Covenanters who were executed just outside Edinburgh. Robert Pollock and Robert Millar were tried on 19th January, found guilty and ordered to be hanged at the Gallowlee four days later. Pollock was a shoemaker from East Kilbride and Millar

Skeoch Hill, where over three days in the summer of 1678, 14'000 Covenanters met for worship and around 3000 took communion. The rows of stones they laid out for the communion are still in their exact locations after all these years. On the hillside opposite the King's troops

On this day 1666, seven Covenanters were all hanged at Ayr. They had all been captured at Rullion Green in November 1666. They were part of a group of twelve men brought from Edinburgh to Ayr to stand trial for their part in the rising. After the inevitable outcome, all were

Pedan stane ..covenanters preached here hiding from persecution from the Catholic kings army .A special place

Third time lucky - today I found the remains of Wishaw House. As the Thomas Hosmer Shepherd drawing shows, it was once a very substantial building. There's very little left now. In 1848, the composer Chopin visited Scotland, staying at the house. 1/2

I never thought I would say this, but can we have John Bolton on #Newsnight more often: "I do not expect Donald Trump to live up to the standards of Richard Nixon". Oft!

Over the summer, I went to the very North of the Isle of Lewis on a field trip to map the geology there with a close friend of mine. The google street view car went past. We had a geological hammer. The following masterpiece, now on google street view, was the result

@drmarkjardine @WingsScotland Neo-Celtic revival, perhaps?

This from @RMcAlpineOrg is painfully true. You need wit, guile and nerve to win, at the very least put your political opponents in a difficult position to counter your national narrative. Real suggestions on who has those qualities in @SNP? #Scotland

Sometimes you just find things. This is one. #History

@DavidDavisMP Thank you.

Exactly. And us the visible insurrection of 1,617,989 minds! #Scotland

Paying tribute to Alex Salmond, Conservative MP @DavidDavisMP says: "It was a tragedy at the end of his career that his own party, his own government, turned on him..." "Alex was a very proud son of Scotland but he was also a son of this House of which we should be proud."

😁Alex Salmond doing me a fun favour for the very pro independence, Alex M, of Back Lewis on his 80th birthday, a year last July. Alex M is a joiner/roofer & very active - so after asking once Alex Salmond sent this for Alex M's 80th. #class

There is now a distinct and monstrous possibility that the presidency will be taken by someone who loses the popular vote by many millions, even a landslide, and yet gains power; someone entirely without moral compass and wholly indifferent to the distinction between truth and

Of all the things said, this by @RMcAlpineOrg on #AlexSalmond is the best. #Scotland. "It is us now that must change the weather in his wake. We have much to live up to."

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. St Augustine