A little known library “gem” that lay hidden away above the cloisters of Iona Abbey is to open at the weekend after it was saved by a major renovation programme.
An intelligence map drawn up after a British government reconnaissance trip into the Highlands to establish the threat of Jacobite unrest in the early 18th Century has been revealed in a new book.
A map which charts some of the hundreds of black campaigners, many of them former slaves, who came to Edinburgh to campaign for the abolitionist movement has been released.
The Skye Bridge opened on this day in 1995 signalling a new chapter in island life - and a mass wave of civil disobedience over the tolls charged to cross Loch Alsh.
There will be no more scrabbling for torches or lighting candles in the night on Fair Isle as the island gets a 24-hour electricity supply for the first time.
The brutal death of a Pictish man who lived in a Fife coastal community around 1,500 years ago has been revealed following analysis of his badly damaged skull.
A fundraising campaign has been launched to preserve a lifeboat museum on Orkney as it prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of a disaster which claimed the lives of eight crewmen including two fathers and their sons.
They may have counted up their halfpennies and farthings back in the day, but in 2018 Scotland’s historical figures are going contactless like the rest of us.
A memorial has been cast for a Jacobite soldier who fought in the 1745 rebellion and is remembered for an almost “supernatural” act on the battlefield.
A new collection of photographs casts St Kilda in a fresh light by balancing the island’s little recorded human and military presence against its wild natural beauty.
Businesses affected by this year's Glasgow School of Art fire are set to be allowed to return to their buildings - four months after the devastating blaze.
