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May 14, 1685 the news of Argyll's departure from Orkney arrives in Edinburgh. It is sent by fast packet boat to Whitehall. The Militia is mobilised and Scotland prepares for war.

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2020-05-14

We offer again the arms of the Royal College of Nursing to mark International Nurses Day and thank them for all their wonderful work. The arms were matriculated for use in Scotland in 1969.

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2020-05-13

It's another challenge! Each week we'll be posting items from our archives from A to Z! Today is A for Architect drawings... hand drawn, unique and very colourful. We've quite a collection of these North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board scheme drawings!

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2020-05-12

My Comic ‘On The Rocks’ was based on Irish Selkies from the Gaelic myths of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and some parts of England.

You can read some of it here 😆: https://t.co/kZyAx8f68E

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2020-05-11

we can’t travel or visit art galleries so time for a wee look at the permanent collections of a selected few of UKs temples of Starting with The National Gallery of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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2020-05-11

The Stoor Worm, a huge sea monster, terrorised the West
of
It was killed by burning peat thrust into its liver.
In its death throes, its teeth flew out and become the islands of and the

All this was a long time ago.

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2020-05-11



It's windy outside
Still the birds sing, the sun shines
Sunday, in Scotland

Happy Sunday (not Mother's Day over here)

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2020-05-10

Alright, here's West Adder. He's a draconian (a dragon person) from Scotland who has a soft spot for animals.

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2020-05-09

This one's not for viewers in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland...

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2020-05-08

L is for Loch Ness Monster
Affectionately known as “Nessie”, the Loch Ness Monster was first ‘officially’ photographed in the Scottish Highlands in 1934.

Artwork (c) Lizzie Cavanagh

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2020-05-08

Orazio Borgianni.1574-1616. Saint Christopher carrying the Infant Christ.1615. National Gallery of Scotland.

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2020-05-08

whenever I make it over to scotland I v much want to go here

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2020-05-07

OTD 1598 Geffrey Fenton calls to block shipments of arms to Tyrone from Scotland 'great quantities of powder and other provisions for him and O'Donnell...considering the King's former favourable dealings with Tyrone, cannot but think the King is a secret supporter'

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2020-05-07

3 piece Gazza set I’ve been working on recently of that goal for England v Scotland at Euro 96.

Tried a bit of a simpler style with these & pretty happy with how they’ve turned out.

Acrylic on 500x600mm canvas
🦁🦁🦁

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2020-05-07

6th day of IRISH
I like a lot Ireland, history, tradition, folklore... So I drew a
This myth is widespread in Orkney and Shetland islands, Scotland, Ireland, the Faroe Islands and, to a lesser extent, Iceland and Norway.

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2020-05-06

This was drawn in the midst of me moving to Scotland, so my focus was getting work done, not necessarily posted on the interwebs.

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2020-05-05