Scotland

Mount Stuart, a house built for built for John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. (Photo by Mount Stuart)

8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens

An illustration of Peter Williamson

Peter Williamson: The diehard Scot

From The Library

The battle of Culloden. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

7 myths about the battle of Culloden busted

Memorial cross at Flodden Field, site of Battle of Flodden 1513, Northumberland, 1994. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

8 of Britain’s best battlefields

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Robert the Bruce: champion of Scotland or murderous usurper?

Podcast Brian Glanville

The World Cup story

Robert Burns. (Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Robert Burns

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Did the Scottish mass-murdering cannibal Sawney Bean actually exist?

Detail of the carved portal of Hylestad stave church, 12th century. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The lost battles of Viking Britain

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Michael Wood on… the Galloway Hoard

A battle of Flodden memorial statue of one of the Hawick Callants on horseback, raising the captured banner aloft in triumph. Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. (Getty Images)

History explorer: the battle of Flodden

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Historical television and the battle of Flodden

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History quiz – spacewalks, battles and Eleanor of Aquitaine

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10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites