Scottish History

This long-overdue new history of Oban (An t-Òban, meaning 'the little bay' in Gaelic)...

As the most advanced frontier construction of its time, and as definitive evidence of...

The great travellers of the 17th century – Martin, Penant, Johnson et al – used the...

Arisiag and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the 'river-mouth bay' and the 'great water', part...

The Caledonian Canal records the history of one of Scotland’s most massive engineering...

One of the great classics of Scottish history, The Drove Roads of Scotland interweaves...

The loss of two British ships crammed with American soldiers bound for the trenches of...

Two thousand years ago, southern Scotland was part of a great empire, the Roman Empire....

Fife has always been one of Scotland’s most distinctive counties. Though never a...

Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off...

Every year, ten men from Ness, at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis, sail...

Highland Folk Ways vividly describes the many aspects and artefacts of our ancestors...