Caledonia Heritage

No one celebrates New Year like the Scots do and we even have our own name for it! Hogmanay! But what does it mean?
The actual linguistic origin of the word is unclear but it is likely derived from a number of possibilities: the Gaelic oge maidne (New Morning), Anglo-Saxon Haleg Monath (Holy Month), or [...]

Ni fallat fatum Scoti quocunque locatum; Invenient lapidem, regnare tenentur ibidem
(As long as the fate plays fair; Where this Stone lies the Scots shall reign)

On 30 November 1996, the Stone of Destiny, the stone upon which generations of Scottish kings were crowned, was finally returned to Scotland after a 700 year absence. Thousands of people [...]