Discover how Scotland Yard set new standards for policing and criminal investigative work in Victorian London. #MissScarletPBS ...

One of the major figures in the history of the Western Isles is Somerled. Born around 1117 and with a mixed Norse and Gaelic pedigree, Somerled was challenge the might of both Norway and Scotland ...

Together they created the Kingdom of Alba. The Picts took part in one of the most decisive battles in Scottish history - the Battle of Dun Nechtain (Dunnichen). If the Picts had lost, Scotland ...

Credit: Wellcome Collection via Wikimedia Commons In 1867, Lord Joseph Lister, another towering figure in Scottish medical history, published On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery ...

While it may sound straight out of a cheesy holiday movie, this really was the reality for centuries in Scotland. What's even stranger is that it wasn't even that long ago. If you want to learn ...