Flora Crichton, who has died aged 91, was for three decades the resourceful chatelaine of Traquair House in the Scottish ...

Findlater Castle came into view like a mirage — an abandoned fortress camouflaged against Scotland's lonely northern coast. I had seen crumbled British coastal ruins before, but here I could make out ...

Yet many Scottish Jacobite leaders disapproved of this plan because they disliked and distrusted the English Jacobites; their preference was to consolidate Jacobite power in Scotland. In the Council ...

The supporters of James Stuart, the king of Scotland, England and Ireland who abandoned his throne in 1689, were called Jacobites and were persecuted because of their military actions. David Dobson's ...

Scotland's History Union and Jacobites The Jacobite invasion of England The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on ...

Amateur archaeologists in Scotland have discovered a cache of musket balls and other artifacts connected to the Jacobite Rising of 1745, which attempted to restore the Stuart dynasty to Britain’s ...

The Scotland's History online debates are now closed. We would like to thank everyone who contributed over the two years that they ran and made the debates lively, informative and engaging. Need More ...

Tour manager Angie Eccles explains why Great Rail Journeys’ escorted tours are the best way to unearth Scotland’s wild beauty and history I’m going into my 15th season leading tours to Scotland and ...