The most famous Scottish cannibal was Sawney Bean, a 16th-century man who, with his wife and children, supposedly killed and ate travellers to the Ayrshire coast.
- Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
Scotland avoided the popular riots that shook other nations.
Rumours and gossip swirled around medieval England whenever there was societal unrest.
Both unionists and nationalists cite this keystone document of Scottish history.
The return of the Stone of Scone to Westminster has proven controversial.
Rumours and gossip dominated his short reign and the stories were more than just about the Princes in the Tower.
The French meddled in the civil war between the Yorks and Lancasters, hoping for an outcome that would favour them.
Hastings and Bannockburn didn’t exactly bring people together, but they remind us that the component parts of the UK are inextricably linked.
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