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If I die, the truth will be lost for ever . . . I must pass on the secret. History...

In the court of Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is favoured above all...

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet....

Part of a trilogy on Scottish history, T.M. Devine's The Scottish Nation: A Modern...

An updated edition of the classic, definitive guide to malt whiskies, originally...

Although related to one of the ruling families of Ireland, Columba (c 521-97) became a...

Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and it...

Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on...

Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which...

For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an...

A vivid, wide-ranging and engrossing account of Scotland's history, composed of...

Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the...