Scottish History

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...

Knoydart - the northern edge of the 'Rough Bounds' is one of the most evocative names...

This long-overdue new history of Oban (An t-Òban, meaning 'the little bay' in Gaelic)...

In 1830, the little Hebridean island of Lismore was one of the granaries of the West...