Scientists and historians believe they’ve replicated the face of Robert the Bruce, the 14th century Scottish war hero and king, reconstructed from the cast of a human skull housed by the Hunterian ...
Increasing anxiety about the U.K.’s preparations for leaving the European Union has some Scots talking about how, in a world of Brexit, they might be able to actually pull off independence. The film ...
Every country remembers the people who refused to bow down when freedom was at stake. For Scotland, that figure was Robert ...
There are no surviving portraits of Robert the Bruce, the Scottish king, that were created during the dark and mud-strewn era of his rule. All the drawings and paintings and sculptures and key chains ...
“In the Year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland – starving and outnumbered – charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets; they fought like Scotsmen, and won their freedom. “ ...
In Edinburgh one night last week, a stocky, square-faced woman with a fiery glint in her eye strode determinedly into a performance of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s The Wallace, one of the highlights of the ...
Attention, history buffs: A private island in Loch Lomond on which the father of Scottish independence quite literally put down roots has just hit the market for $1.2 million. Spanning 180 acres, ...