Famous Scots

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

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

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

This book is a celebration of the extraordinary career of one of the most intriguing...

Mackintosh's chosen tour of Italy is one of the best-documented periods of his career...

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