Famous Scots

One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh's finest work dates from about a dozen intensely creative...

Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine...

William Wallace came to fame through his active opposition to the aggressive...

Robert the Bruce is a man of both history and legend. In his lifetime he secured...

Much has been written about Robert Burns’s early days in Ayrshire and on his latter...

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

This Wee Book combines well kent and lesser known phrases, poems and songs to give folk...

Born into poverty in the Scottish Border country in 1757, Thomas Telford rose to become...

Part of a series of guides following key figures and themes, this book looks at the...

In 1801, some five years after Burns' death, nine of his friends sat down to dinner in...