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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WHERE MORTAL AND IMMORTAL MEET… • A new study on the history of Glasgow marks the 85th anniversary of the foundation of the Society of Friends of Glasgow Cathedral by Reverend A. Nevile Davidson

Saved for the nation: Scottish institutions celebrate appeal’s success • The Scottish members of a consortium set up to save a unique collection of literature for the nation have welcomed the news that their international appeal has reached its target of £15 million

National Museums Scotland acquires armorial panels associated with Marie de Guise • A series of oak armorial panels from a house inhabited by Mary Queen of Scots’s mother Marie de Guise, regent of Scotland and wife of James V, have been acquired and conserved by National Museums Scotland

BRIDGE OF ALLAN-ON-SEA • Murray Cook and co-authors present the findings of a project that resulted from the chance find of a line of eroding shells – providing evidence that Bridge of Allan was below or under the sea in the wake of the Ice Age

A LUXURY STAY IN EDINBURGH AND A TOUR OF THE ROYAL YACHT BRITANNIA • There’s always something new to discover in Edinburgh and we’re offering one lucky reader and a companion the perfect base from which to explore the city

BUILDING BURGHS: THE CONQUEST AND CIVILISATION OF MORAY, C.1150 - C.1250 • Throughout the 12th and 13th centuries, the kings of Scots made aggressive efforts to entrench their authority across Scotland, nowhere with more transformative effect than in the traditionally independent-minded province of Moray. Dr John R Barrett explores how they did this, particularly through the foundation of new burghs

REINTRODUCING THE VIKINGS INTO SCOTLAND’S STORY • Dr Adrián Maldano takes another look at the formation of Scotland, to ask whether we should recalibrate our image of the ‘Vikings’ to include more than just people of Norse descent

THE FIRST SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: PART 1 • The Scottish Enlightenment is usually associated with the great thinkers of the mid-to late-18th century, such as David Hume and Adam Smith. But, in this first instalment of a two-part series, Dr Kelsey Jackson William argues that ‘Enlightenment’ actually began at least half a century earlier, with a group of religiously nonconforming scholars clustered in the isolated north-east

NEW RESEARCH REVEALS THE PREHISTORIC ORIGINS OF SCOTLAND • Hadrian’sWall is sometimes blamed for splitting ancient Britain in two but newly-published archaeological research reveals that the peoples of Scotland and England were already culturally divergent long before the Romans arrived in Britain

DIARY DATES • ONLINE LEARNING EXPERIENCES TO ENJOY FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, PLUS SELECTED ON-SITE EVENTS AROUND THE COUNTRY

…THE LORDS OF THE ISLES • History Scotland’s consultant editor, Dr Allan Kennedy, explores the lordship of the isles, a semi-autonomous agglomeration of lands in the western highlands and Hebrides ruled over by the MacDonalds in the 14th and 15th centuries

LEGACIES OF TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY IN STIRLINGSHIRE AND PERTHSHIRE • It is well known that the cityscapes of Glasgow and Edinburgh as they stand today owe much to the profits of slavery and the slave-trade. The same is true, however, in other parts of the country, including the more rural settings of Stirlingshire and...