Biography & Travel Writing

Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He...

This is not a guide to the islands of Scotland; it's not a tour to be followed, nor is...

The British Isles are an Archipelago made up of two large islands and some 6289 smaller...

George's memory is inseparable from Orkney, where he was born the youngest child of a...

His name and image are everywhere - from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre...

For nearly forty years John Wilson travelled the length and breadth of Scotland as a...

The year is 1746. The Jacobite rebellion has failed catastrophically and Scotland is...

In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son...

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal...

Thomas Telford, the son of a shepherd, was born in Westerkirk, Scotland in 1757. At the...

Mike Edwards journeys across America to each of the five settlements which bear the...

Kellan MacInnes really needs to get away. Newly divorced, HIV-positive, flat broke and...