I note Mark Rugg Gunn in the Introduction to his history writes

• 'the manuscript of Aeneas Gunn ... become lost' (page 1). That is not true. I have a copy of the Aeneas Gunn family trees discussed in Thomas Sinclair's 'Appendix' and a copy of the actual manuscript (including the trees) is in Australia. Aspects of the trees are on this site.
• 'It is to be hoped that the archives of Dunrobin Castle will one day be made available for historical resaerch ... and cannot fail to throw  much new light on Gunn history'. (page 7). The documents are available for research at the National Library of Scotland and some results  of my research can be found on this website - including material which challenges the normal 'history'.

In other words, real Gunn history is still being found, and old knowledge re-interpreted - those who think Gunn history is fixed, with all answers known, are just wrong.

I am thoroughly checking the 1896 Clan Gunn tree written by the well-known Captain Alexander Gunn, whose father was Donald Gunn the Sennachie of Braehour and Brawlbin. There is a lot of interesting and very useful information in the tree, not least the suggestion that the sister of the last two Chiefs (she married John Gunn in Kinbrace) may have been called Margaret. Lord Lyon records her as 'Unknown'...

Interesting to see in the Blaeu 1654 Atlas of Scotland that there is no mention of Clan Gunn castles, although other Caithness / Sutherland / Strathnaver  castles are detailed.  This further suggests that Gunn castles were not castles but fortified farmhouses / homesteads which is what their measurements suggests they were. 

See http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu/vision_of_scotland.html

For those interested in the Clan Gunn Family Convention and Lord Lyon's jurisdiction - or not - on this matter see http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/lordlyon.htm

I know I have written on the 'Clan Gunn was never from the Orkney Islands' issue before but I have added another entry on the topic. It is more tightly argued than before. See http://clangunn.weebly.com/clan-gunn-has-no-orkney-origin.html

I do not see the slightest academic logic for hoping that the Clan Gunn originated in the Orkneys... It's just romantic fiction...

Thought people would like to know that the trees which I have use here, and which Thomas Sinclair used in  his Appendix, will be discussed - along with the manuscript - in the next issue of Scottish Archives (being Vol.20).

See http://blog.whatscotlandthinks.org/2015/02/labour-still-deep-trouble/ for discussion of the next opinion poll showing  the Scottish Nationalist Party continuing to poll extremely highly. These polls are of increasing significance as there is a Westminster election in May of this year.