Clans, Castles and the Scottish Borders

I have previously referred to the influence of Robert Burns on Abraham Lincoln. Now a leading American academic, Dr Ferenc Morton Szasz, h...

I visited the Wallace Monument last week. This is not what I saw - but it might have been! The idea of a monument to commemorate William Wal...

Amongst his many accomplishments Jamie Fraser, hero of Diana Gabaldon's 'Outlander' series, was highly skilled with Highland wea...

Yesterday I was tempted out to walk a stretch of the ' Speyside Way ', a long distance footpath, and found myself on part of the old...

‘An Srath Fhionnghain gheal, ‘S an grinne beus gun smal’ The MacKinnons arrived on Skye in the early 14th century. The clan chief followed a...