The deposed Scottish queen wrote the four-page missive to her brother-in-law just a few hours before her execution in 1587 ...

What is the difference between Scotland's Hogmanay and New Year's Eve in the rest of the UK? First Footing and origins explained.

The document is believed to be the last letter ever penned, writing to her brother-in-law in France to put her affairs in ...

This is perhaps his best work to date. Drayton and Mackenzie, by Alexander Starritt (Swift) Drayton and Mackenzie first meet ...

On your next trip to the U.K., travel expert Rick Steves says that this European museum is a must-see destination — and it's ...

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WITH Christmas approaching, soon-to-be parents will be looking for the perfect name for their little one.  If you’re a lover ...

From big laughs to festive magic, here’s our guide to the best pantomimes lighting up theatres across Scotland this Christmas.

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

Jonathan Allen, a biology professor at William & Mary in Virginia, has a very strange pet: a very very long ribbon worm ...

The 400th anniversary of James VI and I’s death has been marked by several new approaches to the reign that gave ...