The legend of a monster dates back to the Middle Ages when Irish monk St Columba is said to have encountered a creature in ...

They are such a rare thing,” Avon Archaeology Highland senior archaeologist Andy Young said, when a building team unearthed a ...

The discovery of a 17th-century “foot-ball” pitch in Scotland would relocate the birthplace of the modern game.

And then only in the North of England and Scotland. The Oxford English Dictionary definition states that a pet is ‘an animal, a bird, etc. that you have at home for pleasure, rather than one ...

Two major Scottish orienteering competitions brought the best out of Moray competitors over a range of ages. The Moravian Orienteers club was well represented at the Scottish middle distance ...

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Actor James McAvoy will be among those taking part in this year’s Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) which will include premieres featuring stars such as Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Tilda Swinton.

At one time, Scotland was occupied by five different peoples ... although alternative power-bases existed until the end of the Middle Ages - for example, in the Norse Northern Isles of Orkney and ...

was created around 800 CE in a Scottish island monastery and is now preserved in Trinity College Library in Dublin. Monastery architecture was pretty basic in the early Middle Ages. Around the ...

During the Middle Ages, medieval torture devices made life for anyone accused ... Perhaps the most famous victim of rack-like torture is Scottish rebel William Wallace. In 1305, Wallace was captured ...