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Ordinary
of Arms vol III
compiled
by Dr Bruce Durie
Interest
in Scots heraldry is at an all-time peak.
Balfour
Paul's Ordinary of Arms (1903 edition) had some 5,500 entries covering
the 230 years from 1672 to 1902.
Reid
and Wilson's Ordinary volume II Added another 6,000, representing 72
years up to 1973.
Now,
almost another 5,000 Arms were granted or matriculated between
1971 and 2017.
In
addition there is considerable personal fascination with the field, not
least in the many corners of the globe where Scots are to be found.
This
new Ordinary was published to mark the 2022 Lyon Court
celebration of the 350th Anniversary of the Public Register of All Arms
and Bearings in Scotland.
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Companion
to the Ordinary
of Arms vol III
compiled
by Dr Bruce Durie
When
the Ordinary vol III was published to mark the 2022 Lyon Court
celebration of the 350th Anniversary of the Public Register of All Arms
and Bearings in Scotland, there was an expressed desire to see a volume
dedicated to Crests, Mottos, Supporters, Flags and Badges associated
with these Arms.
The idea is to provide details of Ensigns Armorial not readily available
anywhere else. There are also informative essays on the nature of
Crests, Mottos, Supporters, Flags and Badges.
Noted Scots heraldist Mark Dennis, in his Foreword, calls it a "Herculean
undertaking".
The coverage of this Companion is the same as Ordinary Vol. III:
Register v. 55 (1971) to v. 91 (2017) and part of v. 92.
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Your
Scottish-American Ancestry
(Limited Edition)
 Researching
your Scottish ancestry from America, with Family History sources,
musings on aspects of Scottishness, inheritance, migration, land and
maps, heraldry, DNA, hints and tips, and more.
This book emerged from courses taught at the universities of Strathclyde
and Edinburgh in
Scotland, and
Guelph in
Canada, and from many talks given in
Scotland, the USA and elsewhere.
This bestseller has proved to be a valued resource for anyone of Scots
ancestry, whether in America or anywhere else the Scots have migrated
and flourished.
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Songs
and Stories of the Jacobite times and the five Jacobite Risings - Words,
music and history -
compiled
by Dr Bruce Durie
The
five Jacobite Risings from 1689 to 1746 produced many songs - some pro-Jacobite,
some Whig, some outright satires, some recounting historical events, and
some spin and fake news.
Many of those now considered “traditional” were composed later,
during the Victorian rediscovery of all things Highland in the 1800s,
long after the events described.
Some were by well-known later poets including Robert Burns, Sir Walter
Scott and James Hogg, "the Ettrick Shepherd". Some have become
corrupted over the years. Some will be familiar, some less so.
These songs
form a crucial part of Scotland’s musical and folk culture, and
deserve to be sung and played today. This short book came out of an
invitation to sing some of these songs and tell the surrounding tales
and histories arising from Scotland during and after the Jacobite era.
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