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The coats of arms of the kingdoms of Scotland and France
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Q&A How old is the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland?

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Q&A When did the Scots start wearing tartan – and what did it mean?

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Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. (Loop Images/UIG via Getty Images)
Roman

Hadrian’s Wall: when and why was it built? A brief guide

A portrait of Flora MacDonald, who found fame as a Jacobite heroine sailing Bonnie Prince Charlie to safety
Georgian

Who was Flora MacDonald?

Illustration showing a scene from the Battle of Moore's Creek
Georgian

The Highlanders of North Carolina & the battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge

Remains of croft, abandoned during the Scottish Highland Clearances
Georgian

The Highland Clearances: a historian’s guide to a century of eviction

Curling stones during a match at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah
General History

A brief history of curling – from medieval Scotland to the Winter Olympics

GJ1HTR A standing stone at Borvemore, with a view to beaches beyond, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
General prehistory

Explore 8 little-known prehistoric sites in Britain

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Stonehenge: Not a henge, but certainly a stone circle, and a very long-lived centre of human activity. (Getty Images)
Stone Age

Your guide to Britain’s prehistoric stone circles

James Hamilton's 1880s painting 'The Massacre of Glencoe'.
Stuart

Hell at Glencoe: what led to the massacre in the Scottish Highlands?

Mary Stuart, shown here in a painting after Nicholas Hilliard, might have been a good queen, says Kate Williams, but the odds were stacked against her. (Image by Superstock)
Elizabethan

Who betrayed Mary, Queen Of Scots?

Lithograph portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)
Georgian

7 facts about Robert Burns, Scotland’s national bard

Portrait showing Mary, Queen of Scots with her hand on her hip
Tudor

Mary, Queen of Scots: your guide to her life and times

The capture of the pirate Blackbeard, 1718. Painting by JLG Ferris. One of history’s most notorious pirates, Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach almost certainly had a West Country twang because he was born in Bristol in around 1680. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)
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Q&A Did most English pirates really talk with a West Country accent?

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