Scottish History

Scotland’s history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This...

When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into...

The Isle of Arran dominates the Firth of Clyde. A favourite haunt of holidaymakers, it...

Paul Murton has long had a love of the Viking north - the island groups of Orkney and...

'Coffin roads' along which bodies were carried for burial are a marked feature of the...

Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in...

Scapa Flow was one of the world's great naval bases and the scene of many of the major...

The Isle of Skye offers a magical combination of wild land and breath-taking natural...

On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles...

Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and...

In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial...

The mutual influences of people and environment, and the recent history and current...