Scottish History

Highland Folk Ways vividly describes the many aspects and artefacts of our ancestors...

Places and books like Rosslyn Chapel and 'The Da Vinci Code' have focused attention on...

Aberdeen has been inhabited for 8,000 years, since the first Hunter-Gatherers settled...

Dating from the thirteenth century, Hawick has a proud history as a market town and the...

The kingdom of Scots was the last of the non-Anglo-Saxon states of Britain to survive...

The Battle of Flodden in 1513 was the largest battle ever to take place between England...

The Fair City of Perth is aptly named. Situated on the banks of Scotlands longest...

A fascinating collection of old photographs of this Dumfriesshire town, accompanied by...

Dumfries has a long history, and much of it is well-recorded. As well known as much of...

‘The Scots’, said a censorious English member of Parliament in 1607, ‘have not suffered...

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

Smuggling in West Argyll & Lochaber is a remarkable account of the time, prior to 1745,...