Discover the Scottish surnames of Clan Douglas — from Morton to Sandilands. Explore Gaelic origins, tartans, clan history and ancestral Borders lands.
Campbeltown once had 34 distilleries and led the world in whisky. Discover how it fell and what three survivors still make it Scotland's own whisky region.
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Scottish place names carry an ancient Gaelic language that describes the land itself. Discover what your favourite Highland names really mean.
In 1930, the last 36 residents of St Kilda signed a petition to leave their remote Scottish island. Here is the story of the day they sailed away forever.
At its peak, the Lord of the Isles sat in council on a tiny island in a freshwater loch on Islay, governing a territory that stretched from the Outer...
For nearly two centuries, a father could not give his own surname to his child. A gravestone could not bear the family name.
In the great halls of Fontainebleau and Amboise, and on the blood-soaked battlefields of the Hundred Years’ War, one group stood between France’s kings...
Somewhere beneath the grey-green waters of the Minch — the treacherous stretch of sea separating the Scottish mainland from the Outer Hebrides —...
Somewhere along Scotland’s wild northern coastline, a fisherman’s wife would sometimes stand at the shore and gaze out to sea for hours.