They are not quite the Pollux and Castor of the Scottish hills. That Alpine sobriquet is probably more suited to Ben More and Stobinian further to the south. But gaze on […]

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 […]