Scottish History

A lively new history from one of Scotland's brightest young historians.

Take a tour of Aberdeenshire's curious and bizarre past. From the story of the Beatles'...

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

Irvine is probably the town in Ayrshire which has experienced the most changes in it...

The south of Scotland has a long and turbulent geological past. Perhaps most notably,...

Blair Atholl is next to the A9 road, which links Perth to Inverness and is the main...

The search for a Northwest Passage, connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific was one of...

Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a...

It is easy to overlook how much of our history is preserved all around us - the way the...

Featuring 21 stories of murder, myth and mystery from Lochaber's dark past, from the...

The harbours and piers of Ayrshire have a long and interesting history. The old creeks...

This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland as it has never been told...