Explorer, missionary, anti-slavery campaigner, miller, doctor – David Livingstone was all of these things and more. A man possessing rare dynamism and breadth of skill, Livingstone would, one might imagine, […]

Sometimes it’s the inconspicuous treasures that, when revealed, shine the brightest. Edinburgh’s Royal Mile suffers no lack of attractions, from the Castle and Holyrood Palace that mark its extremities, to […]

You would be hard pressed to find a Scot whose pulse does not quicken at these words from the Declaration of Arbroath: ‘As long as but one hundred of us […]

Standing sentinel atop a rocky outcrop overlooking the Sound of Mull, Duart Castle viewed from the Oban to Craignure ferry is matched by few other sights in Scotland. Just like it’s […]

Nothing truly prepares you for your first glimpse of Hermitage Castle. It rises stark and seemingly impregnable from among the rolling hills of Liddesdale in the Scottish Borders. And, with […]

Following the blood-soaked defeat of the Jacobite forces at Culloden in 1746, the Hanoverian British government was fixated on ensuring the Highlands would never rise again. They were not for […]

Few could have anticipated that King James IV’s marriage to Margaret Tudor in 1503 would pave the way for an even more momentous union a century later – the Union […]

A place of standing stones and innumerable archaeological treasures – history is almost tangible in the Orkney air. The isles, which lie off the extreme northern edge of the Scottish […]