MEDIEVAL Scotland is often remembered only for the Wars of Independence, William Wallace, or Robert the Bruce. Any connection with the rest of Europe seem to go solely through England and, sometimes, France.
WE hear from many politicians and pundits that these islands stand apart from the rest of Europe and have always had separate history and destiny. But this is simply untrue.
ROBERT the Bruce remains one of Scotland’s most famous kings and his story has featured in several films, from Braveheart in 1995 to Outlaw King in 2018. A lesser-known movie, The Bruce, released in 1996, is the only attempt to tell the full story of his reign on screen, but how close to history is it?
THIS month marks 201 years since the birth of Old Tom Morris, the famous St Andrews golfer, four-times winner of the Open Championship, and the man responsible for designing many golf courses around Britain and Ireland.
AN adaptation of the classic Scottish novel of the same name by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the 2015 film Sunset Song follows the life of Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), a young woman living on a Kincardineshire farm in the fictional village of Kinraddie, shortly before the First World War.
NINETY-SIX years ago this month, for nine days in May 1926, people across Britain joined the UK’s only general strike thus far.
THE Stone of Scone, or Stone of Destiny, was used in the coronations of Scotland’s kings for centuries, until Edward I invaded Scotland in 1296. The English king took the Stone back with him to England, where it remained for seven hundred years, until it was returned to Scotland in 1996. That is, except for four months in the winter and spring of 1950-1.
FRIDAY marked the 716th anniversary of the coronation of Robert the Bruce as King of Scots.
FROM season four onwards, Outlander focuses on the creation of a Scottish colony in North Carolina, along with the settlement of a few former Jacobites there, men who go on to participate in early resistance to the British colonial authorities and will even join the American Revolution.
Outlander follows an English Second World war nurse thrown back in time to the Jacobite Rising of 1745, but how accurate is its depiction of the famous ’45?
