Four hundred years ago, thousands of ordinary people, the vast majority of them women, were hunted down, tortured and killed in witch hunts across Scotland and England. Lucy Worsley investigates what ...

the first Stuart king of England, dodger of the Gunpowder Plot... and one of the first people to ride in a submarine? It sounds crazy, but James I (or James VI in Scotland) may well have been one ...

James Stuart, also known as the Old Pretender, was living in exile and sought to reclaim the British throne that was his by ...

Only reeled in late by Banbridge following a buccaneering front-running performance in the King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day, the seven-year-old was given a trio of options for his ...

A theater patron found the glass bottle behind a decorative crown positioned 40 feet above the stage. The note was dated 1906, the year the King's Theater opened in Edinburgh ...

King James VI and I took a keen interest in the Bible ... thair is twa Kings and twa Kingdomes in Scotland. Thair is Chryst Jesus the King and his Kingdome the Kirk, whase subject King James ...

With a history that stretches back 176 years, the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow has trained some of the city’s biggest stars ...

Perhaps because he is the baby of the Windsor family, Prince Edward has usually remained in the shadow of his older siblings.

Netflix has a ten-episode television adaptation of Jodi Thomas’ Ransom Canyon, the first book in a series of novels, arriving April 17. The show will star Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly in a fictional ...

Pope Leo IX escapes captivity and returns to Rome. 1144: Gherardo Caccianemici is elected Pope Lucius II. 1496: Jews ...

A collection of over 30 gold and silver English and Scottish coins from throughout the 1400s were discovered near the ...

France has seen off a resilient Scotland 35-16 and clinched the Six Nations title with a tournament-try record in Paris.