"The scene of this picture is laid in the abbey of fotheringhay, the last of the numerous doleful prisons in which this lovely but unfortunate queen was immured, and the prison in which she ended her ...

Moments before her execution, Mary had one last message to send to the world. Mary was sentenced to death after being found guilty of plotting the assassination of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. As ...

Anna Groundwater, a curator at National Museums Scotland, talked about the particular appeal of pieces related to Mary, Queen of Scots. By Susanne Fowler The messages, written while she was imprisoned ...

Kate Kane receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council via the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities. Internationally synonymous with Scottish identity, Robert Burns is ...