Scientists and historians believe they’ve replicated the face of Robert the Bruce, the 14th century Scottish war hero and king, reconstructed from the cast of a human skull housed by the Hunterian ...

Increasing anxiety about the U.K.’s preparations for leaving the European Union has some Scots talking about how, in a world of Brexit, they might be able to actually pull off independence. The film ...

Scotland and England are two nations divided by their experience of history. That divide was never wider than during the Wars of Independence in the 13th and 14th centuries when a chance event brought ...

The Scotland's History online debates are now closed. We would like to thank everyone who contributed over the two years that they ran and made the debates lively, informative and engaging. Debate: ...

There are no surviving portraits of Robert the Bruce, the Scottish king, that were created during the dark and mud-strewn era of his rule. All the drawings and paintings and sculptures and key chains ...

In Edinburgh one night last week, a stocky, square-faced woman with a fiery glint in her eye strode determinedly into a performance of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s The Wallace, one of the highlights of the ...

The fight for Scottish independence is retold in a shoddy medieval drama that almost makes you miss what Mel Gibson brought to the table. The best thing about “Robert the Bruce” — a heartfelt but ...

Bruce Millan, the Labour politician who served as Scottish Secretary and European Commissioner, has died at the age of 85. His family said he died at Glasgow’s Southern General Hospital on Thursday ...