Famous Scots

Join Robert Burns on a wide-ranging journey of poetry, prose and song through every day...

Mary Stuart became queen of Scotland when she was only five days old. This is the...

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was the first collection of poetry produced by...

When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that...

At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength...

Robert Burns is more than Scotland's national poet. He has become a symbol of Scottish...

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

An infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a...

The iconic figure of Robert the Bruce has gone down through the centuries as one of the...

This major work is fully illustrated with many contemporary photographs specially taken...

Funny, scurrilous, chilling and gloriously inventive, Tam o' Shanter is widely regarded...

This souvenir guide traces the life and work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scotland's...