Scottish history

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

Moves still from Rob Roy

How Walter Scott’s stories shaped Scotland

Walter Scott: an engraving after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence of the Scottish poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott

Walter Scott: the man who invented Scotland

Coronation of King Edward III. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

7 medieval kings of England you should know about

Battle of Culloden. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Your guide to the battle of Culloden – plus 7 myths busted

Charles Edward Stuart, aka 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'

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

Illustration shows James IV ceding his crown following defeat at the battle of Flodden. (Picture by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

Your guide to the battle of Flodden 1513

A statue of Robert the Bruce Statue at Stirling Castle, Scotland. (Dreamstime)

The battle of Bannockburn: Robert Bruce’s fight for freedom

King Edward II

In profile: King Edward II

The entry of Prince Charles Edward, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', into Edinburgh in Scotland in 1745. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Forty-five rebellion: why did it fail?

Though the Jacobites broke the British line at Culloden, they faltered under heavy fire (Photo by Alamy)

The Jacobite rebellions: how close were they to returning the Stuarts to power?

A photo which was believed to be of the Loch Ness Monster

The quest for the Loch Ness Monster

Mary, Queen of Scots and her ladies-in-waiting. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mary, Queen of Scots: what happened to her ladies-in-waiting?

A depiction of the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh (10 September 1547), the last formal battle between England and Scotland. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Q&A When was the last battle between England and Scotland?

The ‘Surgeon’s Photo’, taken in 1934, which claimed to depict the Loch Ness Monster. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

5 facts about the Loch Ness Monster