Robert Burns – Scottish Diaspora Icon
St Andrew's Day undoubtedly was one of the main celebrations in the annual events calendar of the Scots abroad. On equal footing stood, however, the celebration of Burns Night in…
Caledonian Games and New Year’s Day in New Zealand
The lusty sports of "Caledonia, stern and wild" have been celebrated in prose and verse by the greatest masters of both. They have a peculiar charm of their own. The…
The Global Saint: St Andrew’s Day Celebrations around the World
‘No saint in the calendar’, observed a reporter in the Hong Kong Daily Press in 1886, ‘receives the hearty and regular devotion paid to St Andrew by his flock in…
Forwards and backwards
In July 1909 the love story of Gabriel R. Gibson of Kilsyth – a small town halfway between Stirling and Glasgow – and Myrtle MacIntyre made headlines in the San Francisco Call.…
Celebrating Halloween in New Zealand
It's that time of the year again when people all over the world celebrate Halloween - a good moment to remember that Halloween has long since been one of the many cultural…
Caledonian societies in the Antipodes
Caledonian societies emerged as the primary driver of Scottish ethnic associationalism in the Antipodes, especially so in New Zealand, where the promotion of Caledonian Games was their very raison d’être —many societies were effectively…
A perfect associationalist
When Archie Crosbie Haig died in Mount Gambier, South Australia, in the spring of 1945, the local paper was full of praise for his involvement in the community, focusing in…
The Scottish Horse
A very specific politicization of Scottish ethnic associational activity is worth pausing over as we continue to remember the First World War: in that war the Scottish Horse played an important…
A Scottish Physician in Hong Kong
I am currently in Hong Kong for fieldwork and went for a meeting at Hong Kong University today. On the way up from the new HKU station panels telling the…
The Sons of Scotland in Canada
The Sons of Scotland association was established as a mutual aid society in Toronto in 1876 to provide insurance to its members, also including in its activities elements of sociability and the…
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