A new exhibition about a burial on the Isle of Lewis from the 1700s has opened for the first time in a generation.

is now Scotland’s largest private landowner, with more than 200,000 acres. But the issue goes back centuries. During a period that began in the 1700s known as the Highland Clearances ...

Merchant, political agent, bankrupt, journalist, propagandist and spy, Daniel Defoe was a key contributor to the Act of Union between England and Scotland in the 1700s and in fact worked as a spy ...

It was the first visit to Scotland by a British monarch since the 17th century. There was a good reason for this long absence ...