Jura is another island that is one of the "best Scottish islands to visit" according to Sotheby's. With an area of just under 37,000 hectares but a population of around just 200, the Inner Hebrides ...

We’ve booked into The Tolbooth, which is housed in the oldest building in town, formerly a courthouse and prison, overlooking ...

A MASSIVE pit containing around 20,000 bits of shellfish has been discovered on the Scottish island of Orkney.

A magnificent Pictish stone that has stood for around 1,200 years and features some of the most impressive carvings of the ...

A host of historic sties across Scotland will share over 2,000 years of history as HES announced its 20-25 summer events ...

The Pictish symbol stones at Aberlemno are “perhaps the most extraordinary and beautiful of all carved stones in the British Isles”, according to Historic Environment Scotland. So the news that ...

The 17 of March is St Patrick’s Day. Who was St Patrick and why is he the patron saint of Ireland? This is the story ...

The Kingdom of Scotland was founded in 843 AD when Kenneth MacAlpin unified the Picts and Scots, though its story stretches ...

It was ‘terrarum fine’ - the end of the world - and for around 20,000 soldiers who had marched north, crossing hills, swamps and rivers to ...

Whenever I am asked a difficult question about Scottish history, I point out I am merely a history writer and not  a professional historian ...