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 Scenes of Scotland by David McConnell Hunter

Hello and Welcome to Electric Scotland
Hello, I'm Alastair McIntyre and welcome to my site which is mostly to do with the history of Scotland and the Scots.Here you will find tons of information on the history of Scotland, the Scots and Scots-Irish as well as people and places of Scots descent around the world. We also have lots of information on Scottish clans and families and their tartans and genealogy.

History is fun, exciting and tremendously interesting. When were chairs first used in Scotland?  How did people live in Scotland over 2000 years ago? What were our popular songs? How did our missionaries tame the Head Hunters? How did our pioneers go about settling North America?  Why did so many of them marry Native Indians? How did the clan system develop?  Answers to all that and much more can be found on the site. We can all learn from our history and Scotland in particular has a record second to none as it was in the forefront of building the British Empire. It's people emigrated to every country in the world and left an outstanding legacy.

Not only do we have general history but also more specific history on various areas such as the Scottish regiments, religion, missionaries, individual places in Scotland, history of our music, sport, education, legal system, medicine, nature, humour, social history, heraldry, and lots more including tons of information on Scots around the world.

Added to all this we have sections where we have over 800 children's stories, thousands of poems and stories sent in by our visitors, food, drink and recipes, many articles from our visitors on a range of topics.  We also have an Article Service where visitors can add their own articles on just about any subject they wish. A range of Services such as our Postcard service and ScotGenealogy Family Tree service. To this we have our own Electric Scotland Aois Celtic Community where visitors can engage in social networking and play any of our over 300 Arcade games.

We also have thousands of Pictures of Scotland for you to enjoy and our own 6 volume Gazetteer to look up places in Scotland. We also have our own Historic Places section with lots of pictures of castles and other historic buildings.

Electric Scotland publishes many antiquarian books to the site on Scottish history or subjects to do with Scotland and Scots around the world. For completed books see our Online Books Page. (We do announce each chapter added to the site on our What's New page). Should you be interested in keeping up to date with what's added each week you can also sign up for our weekly email newsletter.

Our menu in the header will take you to the major sections of the site where you can browse our 200,000 or so web pages but would also recommend using our site search engine to find information. We add content daily so do come back to see what we are getting up to or take our Get our RSS Feed here. You can also embed this feed in your own web site if you wish. feed to keep abreast with what's new on the site.

The site is so large that you'll never be able to read everything so we encourage you to dip into the site to find topics of interest and who knows where that may lead you :-)

Alastair McIntyre, KCTJ, FSA Scot
Director, Scottish Studies Foundation

 



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