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Neil Oliver (born 21 February 1967) [citation needed] is a Scottish television presenter, author, and conspiracy theorist. [2] He has presented several documentary series on archaeology and history, including A History of Scotland, Vikings and Coast. He is also an author of popular history books and historical fiction.
Episode Title Airdate 1 The Last of the Free: 9 November 2008: At the dawn of the first millennium, there was no Scotland or England. In the first episode Oliver reveals the mystery of how the Gaelic Scottish Kingdom - Alba - was born, and why its role in one of the greatest battles ever fought on British soil defined the shape of Britain in the modern era.
M. James Macdonald (British Army officer) John MacGillivray; John MacGregor (sportsman) Kenneth N. MacKenzie; Aeneas Mackintosh; Charles Rawden Maclean
Hemmed in by Heiltsuk war canoes, he wrote a message on a rock near the water's edge of Dean Channel, using a reddish paint made of vermilion and bear grease, and turned back east. The inscription read: "Alex MacKenzie / from Canada / by land / 22 d July 1793" (at the time the name Canada was an informal term for the former French territory in ...
Major Alexander Gordon Laing (27 December 1794 – 26 September 1826) was a Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu, arriving there via the north-to-south route in August 1826. He was killed shortly after he departed Timbuktu, some five weeks later.
Captain William Penny (1809–1892) was a Scottish shipmaster, whaler and Arctic explorer. He undertook the first maritime search for the ships of Sir John Franklin . In 1840, Penny established the first whaling station in the Cumberland Sound area on Kekerten Island .
[2] [3] Landing from a small boat, with one or two native followers, at the confluence of the Niger and Benue, he instead chose Lokoja as the base of his future operations, it being the site of the model farm established by the Niger expedition of 1841 , and abandoned on the death of most of the white settlers (see Capt. W. Allen , R.N., and T ...
Pages in category "Scottish explorers of North America" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.