Three words hang above the entrance of almost every pub, hotel, and village hall in Scotland.
If you carry the surname Fraser, Frasier, Frazier, or any of its many variants, you are connected to one of Scotland’s most storied and dramatic clan families. The Scottish surnames of Clan Fraser reach from the misty straths of Inverness-shire to the battlefields of Quebec, from the courtrooms of Ottawa to the commando beaches of […]
There is an old custom in the Scottish Highlands that has been quietly observed for centuries.
They had three days. Sometimes less. A constable at the door, a date scrawled on paper, and a world upended in a single morning.
In the late eighteenth century, a Dundee merchant made a terrible purchase. He bought a cargo of Seville oranges from a storm-damaged Spanish ship — dirt...
Picture this: a Norse raiding party, creeping barefoot through a Scottish night, trying to stay silent.
Edinburgh Castle had stood in English hands for nearly two decades. Getting it back would take something the English never anticipated — a young man’s old...
Most people assume Scottish clan tartans are ancient — passed down through centuries of Highland tradition.
Few dishes provoke more passionate disagreement in Scotland than this one. Ask any Scot how much whisky goes in and you will start an argument.
Before a single licensed distillery existed, Scotland was already producing some of the finest spirit the world had ever tasted.