History Scotland

Explore centuries of Scottish history and archaeology with fascinating features on topics from all branches and periods of Scottish history and archaeology, written by leading historians, archaeologists and museum curators. With news on the latest research, opinion, expert reviews and spotlights on the country's most significant historical archives, this lavishly-illustrated magazine has everything you need to explore Scotland's rich past.

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1,400-YEAR-OLD BURIAL GROUND DISCOVERED NEAR MUIR OF ORD • Archaeologists working on the Tarradale Through Time project have discovered burial mounds that appear to point to the discovery of a large potentially Pictish barrow cemetery, with earlier prehistoric activity

Hidden interior design gems revealed at Holmwood House

NEW STEVENSON MAP RESOURCE • More than 2,000 items documenting the progress of Scottish engineering over the centuries are now accessible through a new map resource launched by National Library of Scotland

Changes at National Museum of Scotland • Dr Gordon Rintoul CBE, Director, National Museums Scotland, has announced that he will be stepping down in March 2020 after eighteen years in the role

From rebellion to romantic appreciation: the wearing of tartan following the Act of Proscription • Dr Rosie Waine charts the use of tartan following the repeal of the Act of Proscription, as the plaid was rehabilitated from its earlier associations with rebellion to become a popular and patriotic fashion fabric in Britain

Centuries-old mystery of PAISLEY ABBEY MEDIEVAL TUNNEL is revealed • Archaeologists have solved a centuries-old mystery of where the end of a well-preserved medieval tunnel that lies beneath Paisley town centre is located

Bandits of the 17th century: The Mackintosh-MacGregor gang • Dr Allan Kennedy tells the bloody story of one of the most notorious outlaw gangs in 17th-century Scotland, a group whose criminal activities throughout the eastern highlands shocked contemporary observers and earned its leaders lasting infamy

GRAVEYARDS OF HOPES? • Project cataloguers Lynn Bruce and Olivia Howarth explore the reality for returning ex-servicemen and their families after the Great War through the Scottish World War I Pension Appeal Tribunal Papers, held by National Records of Scotland

A PLACE IN AVIATION HISTORY • Guthrie Ewing McGruer tells the remarkable tale of his grandfather’s role in the success of the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic, a century ago this summer

SOME EARLY VIEWS OF SCOTLAND • Professor Barry Baldwin takes a sweeping journey through European views of Scotland from the classical period up to the later middle ages, discovering priceless nuggets of information about early Scots in a wide range of Roman and Greek sources, as well as in the colourful musings of a 15th-century pope

The Eyemouth Disaster • The Eyemouth fishing disaster of 1881 took place as a result of a storm of epic proportions, but the weather was not entirely to blame; economic forces were also at work, writes David Wibberley

THE MEIC UILLEIM RISINGS • History Scotland’s consultant editor, Dr Allan Kennedy, looks at the Meic Uilleims, a family of pretenders to the Scottish throne who, styling themselves champions of Gaelic Scotland, repeatedly challenged the MacMalcolm kings in the late 12th and early 13th centuries

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Global Scotland in the age of Brexit • In this article based on her History Scotland lecture, delivered in April 2019, Professor Tanja Bueltmann explores Scotland’s long history of global interaction, and considers what this international outlook might mean in the context of Brexit

CLYDEBANK BLITZ • The devastation caused by the Clydebank...