People & Places

Battlefield experts are calling for a new town in East Lothian to be named after Bonnie Prince Charlie given the significance of the land to the first encounter of the 1745 Jacobite rising.

A nudist club based on a Loch Lomond island is to welcome visitors for the first time.

A community in the far north east of Scotland has “followed in the footsteps” of their land reforming ancestors with a buyout of land from the Sutherland Estates.

A controversial scheme to build 299 flats at a historic Aberdeen quarry is a step closer to being approved.

Remains of a previously unknown prehistoric settlement may have been found by archaeologists working in the far north of Scotland.

A “happy and popular” tour guide fell 50 metres to his death while trying to photograph a puffin on Orkney.

Around 14 million new trees were planted in Scotland last year with £33m paid to landowners to create new woodland.

For history lovers, this summer job must rank up there with the best.

Prehistoric people were likely to have lived in a number of settlements scattered around present-day Glasgow, research has found.

You could listen to an Orcadian talk all day long.

The first road has opened on the tiny island of Sanday.

Archaeologists have been surveying for the first time the site of the sole battle of the 1719 Jacobite rising when around 300 Spanish soldiers fought alongside the rebels in the Highlands.

The true story of a disaffected crew who overthrew their cruel captain was immortalised in the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty.

Plans to refurbish a museum containing one of Scotland’s most internationally significant collections of art have been boosted by a £1m donation from businessman Sir Angus Grossart.

Robert Burns may have suffered from bipolar disorder, according to researchers at Glasgow University.

Scotland’s national football team won’t be jetting off to Russia this week. But that’s not to say that a Scottish presence isn’t to be found at the 2018 World Cup.

Centuries old Gaelic manuscripts have been given global significance status by world heritage experts at Unesco due to their cultural importance.

The nation’s leading historian has called for Scotland’s battlefields to be protected in law from developers following controversy over new housing to be built at Culloden.

A historic Deeside bridge that was built following the 1745 Jacobite rising to improve army access to the Highlands is to be replaced.