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HAMILTON - Marcus Daly, the mining magnate who founded Hamilton in 1890, was Irish. James Hamilton, the friend Daly hired to lay out the new community, was Scottish. Why, wondered Eric Campbell, ...

On January 23, 1570, the 1st Earl of Moray James Stewart was riding his steed through the West Lothian town of Linlithgow, Scotland. Suddenly, a gunshot was heard, wounding him just below the navel.

The bloody skirmish that took the lives of between 70 and 300 people when the Hamiltons and Douglases clashed on Edinburgh’s High Street in 1520 is one of many violent chapters in the Capital’s long ...