Clans, Castles and the Scottish Borders

Spring has arrived in the Highlands. The fields are green. The geese have left and the ospreys are back. The snow is fast disappearing and t...

Each time I go down the A93 to Aberdeen, my eye is taken by the pink walls of Harthill Castle near Oyne - four stories and a garret, its ...

Clans (Gaelic clann , children) provided the social fabric of the Scottish Highlands from medieval times until 1746. Central to this system,...

The way we Scots see our clan heritage is a bit different to the view from North America or 'down under'. Whilst sometimes we may co...

Rait Castle, a mile south of Nairn, is the best surviving example of a Scottish hall castle and yet in the last twenty years or more nothing...