Traquair House, near Peebles in the Scottish Borders, has been home to the same family since 1491 and is Scotland's oldest ...

The very first unveiling of newly-created flag and banner of the Maclay family will take place at Maclay Gardens.

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So it was very important to people that the Scottish state chose to travel down the right road. When Lutheran books in Latin started to appear in Scotland, the radical message which they carried ...

Credit: Wellcome Collection via Wikimedia Commons In 1867, Lord Joseph Lister, another towering figure in Scottish medical history, published On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery ...

Scotland and England are two nations divided by their experience of history. That divide was never wider than during the Wars of Independence in the 13th and 14th centuries when a chance event ...

the government body tasked with preserving Scotland’s history. The act was short and provided few details about what constituted witchcraft, sorcery or necromancy. But across Scotland ...

Starting out in Rutherglen, their crime empire grew to become the biggest and most sophisticated in Scottish history, with them implicated in drugs smuggling and gun running, and using counter ...

Starting in the Scottish capital, the men’s race will feature stages ... "The Tour de France and the UK share a rich history, and I am delighted to bring the Grand Départ to the country in 2027," Tour ...

Although the Scottish Cup may be the second competition formed in the history of association football, the trophy itself is the oldest in the game and is recognised as such by Guinness World Records.