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The historic kirk with links to King James VI has been listed for disposal by the Church of Scotland after 2027.
In the 1590s, King James VI of Scotland's fear of witchcraft ... have been felt at the most local level: In western Scotland, in the parish church of Dundonald, for example, on November 8, 1629 ...
A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being released to memorialise some of those who were tortured and killed.
During the great migration from Scotland in the early 1600s the first members of the Vans family from Barnbarroch in ...
The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and ...
The Coldstream Guards have made a symbolic return to their roots in Berwick-upon-Tweed by train, 375 years after the regiment was formed in the border town.
The King's aide and former senior bodyguard to Queen Elizabeth II quietly married Ms Lewis last Saturday at the quaint St ...
By D.G. Martin  “The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years ...
Readers respond to former prime minister Scott Morrison’s receiving the Companion of the Order of Australia, and the US riots ...
On the 9th June 1311, the largest and most magnificent altar panel ever created was revealed to an excited crowd which gathered outside the ...
Why 1649 was a time of bewildering transformation. We killed a king and created a republic. It was all over by 1660, but ...
Although the astronomers royal post is largely honorary today, it has long been a title awarded to the most prominent ...