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Salisbury's first attempt at taking the castle centred on catapulting huge rocks and lead shot against the ramparts, but this was met with disdain by the Countess, who had one of her ladies-in-waiting dust off the ramparts with her kerchief. [4] The English employed a siege structure called a sow in an attempt to bypass the castle's defences ...
Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll (1574–1607), attributed to Adrian Vanson. Women in early modern Scotland, between the Renaissance of the early sixteenth century and the beginnings of industrialisation in the mid-eighteenth century, were part of a patriarchal society, though the enforcement of this social order was not absolute in all aspects.
Black Scottish people (also referred to as African-Scottish, Afro-Scottish, or Black Scottish) are a racial or ethnic group of Scottish who are ethnically African or Black. Used in association with black Scottish identity, the term commonly refers to Scottish of Black African and African-Caribbean descent. The group represents approximately 1.2 ...
In the original records written in the Scots language, the word "More" or "Moir" refers to people of African origin. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] An early reference to people of African origin at the Scottish court relates to a group of young women or children in November 1504, recorded as the "More lasses".
Mary Barbour. Mary Barbour (née Rough; 20 February 1875 [1] – 2 April 1958) was a Scottish political activist, local councillor, bailie and magistrate.Barbour was closely associated with the Red Clydeside movement in the early 20th century and especially for her role as the main organiser of the women of Govan who took part in the rent strikes of 1915.
Margaret Wilson (c. 1667 – 11 May 1685) was a young Scottish Covenanter from Wigtown in Scotland who was executed by drowning for refusing to abandon her support for the National Covenant. She died along with Margaret McLachlan. The two Margarets were known as the Wigtown Martyrs. Wilson became the more famous of the two because of her youth.
Agnes Maclehose (26 April 1758 [2] – 23 October 1841 [3]), or Agnes Craig, known to her friends as Nancy [4] and to Robert Burns followers as Clarinda, was a Scotswoman who had an unconsummated affair with Burns during 1787-88, on which he based the 1791 song "Ae Fond Kiss".
Women retained the original surname of their family of origin at marriage and marriages were intended to create alliances between kin groups, rather than a new bond of kinship that joined two families together. [1] In the Borders, on both the English and Scottish sides, there were extensive bonds of kinship, often reflected in a common surname ...