How do empires rise? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped the world around us today? William
“In Herat a man can’t stretch out his leg without touching a poet’s backside” - BaburIt’s 1506, and
“To wander from mountain to mountain, hopeless and homeless, has nothing to recommend it” - BaburBef
J.M. Barrie, the fascinating Scottish writer, gave us Peter Pan - the boy who never grows up, and hi
Robert Louis Stevenson, a sickly boy with a vivid imagination, grew up along Scotland’s rugged coast
For many years, commemorations of the two World Wars excluded the memorialisation of soldiers from t
After robbing the fleet in a brutal, barbaric fashion, Henry Avery caused a diplomatic incident of g
One of the most notable pirates of his day, Henry Avery would go on to make potentially the most luc
William Kidd, a respectable Scottish privateer during the late 17th century, tasked with hunting dow
Alongside legends like Blackbeard and Calico Jack, William Kidd is one of the most famous pirates to
“At our first salutation he drank damnation to me and my men who styled cowardly puppies saying he w
The history of pirates is a thrilling kaleidoscope of adventure, devastation, violence and political
When King Alfonso VI of León took Toledo from the Arabs in 1085, the history of western christendom
Often called Arabic numerals, the modern number system we use today actually originates in India. Wh
From India to Africa, the involvement and influence of Scots in the British Empire has been profound
The extraordinary lives of three Scotsmen - John Henderson, Richard Oswald, and David Livingstone -
In the wake of Culloden, much of Scotland was on its knees. Crippled by defeat and the subsequent ba
Few battles in history have been remembered as powerfully, nor been as mythologised, as Culloden on
In 1688 the Stuart King James II was ousted from the throne by his daughter Mary and her husband Wil
With the accession of James I and VI in 1603, Scotland was assimilated into the composite monarchy o
When charting the rise of Scotland’s global influence, few events have been as tragically remarkable
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