Scotland’s Lowlands were becoming increasingly urban and aligned with English culture, language and politics. The Highlanders, in contrast, were rural and still rooted in the centuries-old clan ...

The digital rendering of an ancient weaving machine enables visitors to experience the creation of the legendary brocade "Five Stars Rise in the Eastern Sky". [Photo by Gao Erqiang/China Daily] The ...

The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the Spanish Campaign and was the capital of Lusitania. The well-preserved remains of ...

The story of Michelle Mone should have been immensely inspiring: working-class Glaswegian woman leaves school with no qualifications and makes it in a male-dominated industry – and, eventually ...

Don Paterson is a celebrated Scottish poet, writer and musician. The essay below comes from a new anthology of Scottish writers called Irish Pages: Scotland, and is reproduced with his permission.

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