including headings Skara Brae, Pre-Roman Scotland, Picts and Scots, Vikings and the British Isles, The MacAlpin dynasty, ...
The main leader to emerge from the uprisings in Scotland in 1297 is William Wallace. Confronted by an English army outside Stirling, on September 11, he holds back his troops and thus entices the enemy across a narrow br...
After much debate a Scotland Act and a Wales Act are passed in 1978, arranging for a referendum in each region. The acts state that regional assemblies will be established if two conditions are met: a simple majority in...
The first dramatic clash between reformers and the establishment in Scotland occurs in 1546. It is occasioned by the burning for heresy of George Wishart by the archbishop of St Andrews, Cardinal David Beaton. In retalia...
In the greatest rivalry of 16th century Europe - that of Spain and France - the two kingdoms of the British Isles are peripheral players. But there are certain contexts in which they can harm or hinder the main contestan...
Trouble with Scotland flares up shortly after Edward's suppression of the Welsh. Relations between England and Scotland have been calm in recent years. The Scottish nobles even accept Edward as arbitrator between the var...
In Scotland the first Gaelic pressure group is founded two years earlier, in 1891, as An Comunn Gaidhealach (The Highland Association). From 1892 it organizes the Mod, a national festival of Gaelic music and poetry inspi...
The gentlemen in Scotland produce between 1768 and 1771 the first edition of a dictionary of the arts and sciences under the title Encyclopaedia Britannica. Unlike its French predecessor, it has been revised and r...
Transferred by Macpherson to Scotland, the pair become Ossian and Fingal - and the poem itself is published as Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem composed by Ossian. This is rapturously received as a romantic relic from...
In the extreme north of Scotland, in the Orkneys, a small neolithic community builds a village in about 2500 BC on a site already occupied for many generations. There is no wood on the island, so the walls of the one-roo...
