Expert history articles

Expert insight and opinion from some of Scotland's top historians and archaeologists.

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The West of Francis McKenna: an Edinburgh boy in the United States

01 April 2019

‘Idly sauntering and lithering about’: The Scots in early modern England

25 September 2018

'What I propose doing with the people? I say, nothing.' The richest commoner and…

09 August 2018

Live cod and illegal brandy - the Shetland cod hunters

26 June 2018

The Battle of Bannockburn explained

21 June 2018

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Royal weddings through history

14 May 2018

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Five remarkable women from Scottish history

01 February 2018

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Stories of remarkable World War One women in the collections of Edinburgh…

22 January 2018

Henry Stuart Lord Darnley - facts about the second husband of Mary Queen of…

04 September 2017

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