War and the ancestral homeland
The ways in which military service could connect and re-connect soldiers with the Scottish homeland - an issue explored in more detail here - was not restricted to ex-servicemen: war…
Returning Soldiers
There were many reasons why Scots did not permanently settle overseas. One group of returnees among which the Scots are disproportionately highly represented is that of military pensioners, especially in…
Homecoming in the 1920s
It's another year of Homecoming - a good opportunity to explore an earlier example of it in the early twentieth century. It was then that a growing number of organised…