Tree ring science is the latest tool unravelling the past at Scotland’s early historic sites.

Impressive first-time novels about female rage and a relentless stalker — plus an inventive tale set in brutal modern Britain ...

The programme of events and attractions has been revealed ahead of next month's highly-anticipated Spectra Festival, which returns to Aberdeen city centre from February 6 to 9.

Archaeological finds have shown that Yorkshire was occupied at a time when early hunters from continental Europe were no...

St Andrews is widely thought to be Scotland's oldest town - with a history that goes back to the Roman era and a number of myths and legends associated with it ...

Dunnottar has witnessed some key moments in Scottish history, with the site having links to the Picts and Vikings with the surviving buildings dating mostly to the 15th and 16th century.

EACH year on January 11, the Clavie King and his creosote-drenched crewman carry a burning barrel through the narrow streets of Burghead in Moray.

A comparison between the Picts and the Scotti is made by focusing on the designs of their brooches and the use of different languages. The theory that the Scotti originated in Ireland, and took ...

"There's just nothing like it." For thousands of years, a mysterious chalk figure measuring more than 360 feet across has been emblazoned on a hillside in Uffington, England. Known as the Uffington ...

Tell you what, they may be tiny. but even the fearsome Picts would have hightailed it into the mist of they'd seen this lot coming at them with their swords, shields and Marvel-themed backpacks.

Whenever Britain faced conflict - from early invasions by the Celts and Romans to WWII when skies were criss-crossed with ...

I reach the final column in my series on the lost ancient kingdoms of Scotland and I am concluding with Bernicia, which flourished in ...