Linlithgow Palace has stood in ruins for nearly 300 years. Learn why Hanoverian soldiers accidentally burned the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots in 1746.
In September 1396, a crowd gathered on the North Inch of Perth and fell silent. Sixty men — thirty from each side — stepped onto the flat meadow beside...
The tale of Tam o’Shanter — Robert Burns’ wild ghost story of a drunken farmer, dancing witches, and the Brig O’Doon bridge in Alloway, Ayrshire.
Discover the ancient Callanish Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis, built 5,000 years ago to track a lunar event that happens only every 18 years.
You see them before you know what you’re looking at. A flash of rust-coloured fur between the rushes. A pair of wide, curving horns.
The moment a set of bagpipes begins to drone, the air itself seems to change. It doesn’t matter whether you’re standing in a rain-soaked Inverness car...
She appears without warning — a pale figure in green, drifting through a first-floor chamber at Crathes Castle, often carrying what looks like an infant...
Tear the foil from a bottle of Laphroaig and within seconds, something ancient hits you. Smoke. Iodine. The cold Atlantic.
In 1858, a small Skye Terrier called Bobby followed a coffin through the cobbled streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Every time a Scot calls a dinner plate an ashet , asks for a tassie of tea, or tells someone not to fash themselves, they are, without knowing it,...