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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Scotland abolished its archaic system of feudal land ownership in 2000. Today, half of all the country’s private rural land is owned by a total of about 420 landowners. How much of Scotland ...

Russell also failed to convert earlier scores from Ben White and Huw Jones as Scotland dominated the first half, but only led by three points at the interval after Tommy Freeman hit back early for ...

Finn Russell missed a last-gasp conversion as England wrestled the Calcutta Cup out of Scotland's grasp after four years of misery with a dramatic 16-15 victory at a rejoicing Allianz Stadium.