The Broons - Wikipedia
WEBThe Broons (English: The Browns) is a comic strip in Scots published in the weekly Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post. It features a Brown family, which lives in a tenement flat at 10 Glebe Street (since the late 1990s) in the fictional Scottish town of Auchentogle or Auchenshoogle.
Blog | HAPPY HOGMANAY, WITH THE BROONS
WEBDec 30, 2017 · In the small, fictional, Scottish town of Auchenshoogle live a family of eleven, whose exploits have entertained the nation since 1936. The Broons have, in their own unassuming way, become national treasures, with a comic strip appearing each week in the national newspaper the Sunday Post, and collected biannually at Christmas.
The Broons (Comic Strip) - TV Tropes
WEBNew Year Has Come: Hogmanay is a fairly regular thing for the Broons, despite the years never moving on. No Name Given: Paw, Granpaw, one of the Twins and the Bairn. Even in a flashback to before Paw had any children, Granpaw's wife is still identified as Granmaw.
How Scotland became the home of Hogmanay | The Herald
WEBDec 31, 2023 · For modern Scots, the traditions of Hogmanay can seem like something straight from The Broons: packet of shortbread to soak up the booze, potted hough and oatcakes, gran’s stovies singeing away...
The Broons and Oor Wullie 1939-1945: The Lighter Side of …
WEBSep 18, 2016 · A rock-solid facet of Scottish popular culture from the start, the first Broons Annual (technically Bi-Annual) had appeared in 1939, re-presenting the best of the Sunday strips; followed and replaced with Oor Wullie the next Christmas.
When Hogmanay was bigger than Christmas in north Scotland
WEBDec 30, 2023 · The Broons and Oor Wullie cartoon strips captured many aspects of the occasion perfectly. The ceilidhs, the first-footing – arriving at a neighbour’s house with a piece of coal and a dram – and...
Happy Hoggo-nott?: The 'lost' meanings of Hogmanay - BBC News
WEBDec 31, 2012 · Some traditions and meanings of Hogmanay are being lost, according to Dr Donna Heddle, director of the Centre for Nordic Studies at Orkney and Shetland College UHI. Here she explains why first ...
The Broons | Tropedia | Fandom
WEBThe Broons is a Scots comic strip that has been published in the weekly newspaper The Sunday Post since 8 March, 1936. Created by writer and editor R. D. Low and artist Dudley D. Watkins for Dundee publishers DC Thomson, the …
The Broons . Glasgow, 1950. WP.med.15 - digital.nls.uk
WEB1950 - The Broons. For generations of Scottish families, the adventures of 'Oor Wullie' and 'The Broons' have been essential Sunday-morning reading. First published in The Sunday Post in 1936, these comic strips, drawn by Dudley D. Watkins, were instant hits with the Scottish public and have continued to appear in the paper every week.
The Broons - Wishin' ye a' a richt Happy Hogmanay! Here's tae …
WEBWishin' ye a' a richt Happy Hogmanay! Here's tae ye, an' a' the very best for 2023!