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.
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The queen was the source of much debate among 18th-century thinkers.
For the last few millennia, the changing of the seasons has been marked by Celtic peoples with festivals. And some of the costumes were genuinely terrifying.
The history of Duff House in northeastern Scotland serves as a reminder that not all country homes in the British Isles faced the same 20th-century fate.
McDermid artfully weaves Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth with Scotland’s Queen Gruoch, the real woman who inspired her.
It was sometimes thought that men who had sex with men would give birth to monsters.
If history is to be of any use to those who study it, it ought to help them understand the nature of the country and society they live in.
The return of the Stone of Scone to Westminster has proven controversial.
Even aside from the gender-neutral issue, toilets have become highly politicised places, especially when it comes to protest.
Long a repressed language, the Scots tongue is experiencing a cultural resurgence thanks to popular drama and storytelling.
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