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On this day 19 July 1333 saw the Battle of Halidon Hill at Berwick, where an English army, led by Edward III and Edward Balliol, defeated the Scots forces under the command of Sir Archibald Douglas ('Tyneman').
The defeat was mainly down to the English archers who devastated the Scottish ranks, inflicting terrible losses, including six…
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Last week, I was helping a researcher who was looking for details of C K M Douglas.
Today there has been a "meteorological tsunami" - meteotsunami in Spain - a phrase coined by C K M Douglas who was a meteorologist.…
Added by William Douglas on July 18, 2018 at 18:32 — No Comments
Ian Douglas has been fascinated by Scottish history for over forty years. He has just published a short biography of Mary, “Mary Queen of Scots – a Brief History” and is the author of “Exploring History in the Scottish…
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On the tombstone, in St Magnus Cathedral, of George Douglas, who died 1611, and Elizabeth Douglas, his spouse, who died 1630, is a shield bearing :—Quarterly, first and fourth, three piles; second and third, a heart ; over all as many mullets
in fess.
Who was he?
The Douglas family played a significant tole in Orkney in the 17th and 18th centuries,…
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