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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WINA STAY AT THE ALTNAHARRA • Enter our exclusive competition for your chance to win a twonight break at the historic Altnaharra in the Scottish highlands

£1M infrastructure investment for University of Dundee • A seven-fi gure funding boost as part of a multi-million pound investment in research organisations across the UK includes investment in the digitisation of internationally important archives and media collections

Conservation of cross from Galloway Hoard reveals ‘supreme’ example of Anglo-Saxon metalwork • New images reveal the stunning detail of an Anglo-Saxon cross buried for over 1,000 years as part of the Galloway Hoard, one of the UK’s most important archaeological finds of recent times

1,200-year-old Pictish stone unveiled at Dingwall museum • A previously unknown carved Pictish cross-slab found in 2019 at an early Christian church site in the Conon Bridge area of the highlands has been unveiled at Dingwall Museum

IN ASSOCIATION WITH Family Tree • In the latest instalment of History Scotland’s #StoryOfOurStreet project, Les Jenkins tells the tale of the street that was home to four generations of his family

WADING THROUGH HISTORY THE DISCOVERY AND DATING OF A ‘LOST’ MEDIEVAL BRIDGE • Geoff Parkhouse reports on the unique underwater discovery of a medieval bridge and the subsequent project to research and safeguard the rare structure

The Glen Orchy Wapiti Pen • Report on an unusual archaeological survey of a 19th-century animal pen created for elks brought in from North America in an attempt to increase the profit to be made from sporting estates in and around Glen Orchy

MAPPING MONUMENTS. A LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ORDNANCE SURVEY • Keith Lilley shares his recent research on the field practices of the early Ordnance Survey, and especially the monuments created 'in the field' by the OS as part of their mapping work 200 years ago

THE USE OF POLICE SPIES in the Radical War of 1820 • Spies, as gatherers of intelligence and, perhaps, agent provocateurs, were a crucial part of the Georgian government’s response to the spasm of unrest and violence known as the ‘Radical War’ of 1820. Dr David Smale reconstructs their activities

REDISCOVERING THE ANTONINE WALL: A COMMUNITY PROJECT • David J. Breeze, Emma McMullen and Patricia Weeks report on a community history project that is working to raise the profile of the Antonine Wall – both in its local area and internationally – in order to ensure its long-term protection

HEBRIDEAN CAVES OF THE ‘45 • In the frenzied months after their defeat at Culloden, several high-profile Jacobites were obliged to make use of the extensive cave networks of the Hebrides in order to avoid capture. Focusing on the well-known experiences of Prince Charles himself, and on the less high-profile case of the priest James Grant, Alasdair Roberts goes in search of these hidden refuges

‘The Captain’ Alexander McDougall of Islay • George Robertson charts the impressive achievements of Alexander McDougall, an Islay-born man whose inventions are still celebrated in the US, where he emigrated, yet little known in the land of his birth

THE OTHER CLERIHEW • Vinod Moonesinghe tells the story of William Clerihew, the overlooked relative of the poet Edmund Clerihew Bentley who is known today,...