Scottish History

Every year, ten men from Ness, at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis, sail...

For much of its history, Orkney had its own language, culture and institutions. The...

The Clearances are well known as one of the darkest periods of Highland history. Over a...

One of the great classics of Scottish history, The Drove Roads of Scotland interweaves...

Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off...

The small island archipelago of St Kilda, which rises majestically from the stormy...

Neolithic farmers, iron age settlers, clan dynasties and, in the 20th century, the...

"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other...

Arisiag and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the 'river-mouth bay' and the 'great water', part...

The Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotland's past but they were...

Beyond Fort William, on the road to the Isles, lies Morar, the 'Highlands of the...

The great travellers of the 17th century – Martin, Penant, Johnson et al – used the...