Famous Scots

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

Valentine's Day, 1613. Elizabeth Stuart, the sixteen-year-old granddaughter of Mary,...

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

Raised in the English court under the medieval code of chivalry, Robert the Bruce in...

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...

Through his personality, ingenuity and ability, he initiated a resistance movement...

To know Sir Walter Scott as a man is as delightful and fruitful an experience as to...

The legend of Robert the Bruce's inspiring encounter with a tenacious spider,...

Mary Queen of Scots is perhaps the most romantic and tragic figure in British history....