Edinburgh Castle perches dramatically on the craggy volcanic Castle Rock and dominates the Edinburgh skyline. The earliest recorded mention of Castle Rock is recorded in the 2nd century, when the ...

Iona Abbey, one of Scotland's most sacred sites and the symbolic centre of Scottish Christianity was the mausoleum of many of the early Scottish Kings. Situated on the Isle of Iona on the West Coast ...

Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138A.D.) as a defence against the warlike Pictish tribes of Scotland and marks the northern boundary of the Roman Empire, it stretches the width ...

Thomas Becket was born around 1118, in Cheapside, London, on 21 December, the medieval feast day of St Thomas the Apostle. He was the son of Gilbert Becket, a prosperous London merchant and his wife ...