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Saint George's, the capital of Grenada where the Trevelyans owned more than 1000 slaves

BBC journalist pays £100,000 in reparations for family's slave ownership
A BBC journalist is to pay £100,000 to make reparations for her aristocratic family’s slave-owning past.

Carnyces on the Gundestrup cauldron were used to help inform the reconstruction of Scotland’s Deskford carnyx

SCOTTISH HISTORY The instruments that played a part in Caledonians beating the Romans

A statue of John Witherspoon outside what is now Princeton University in New Jersey

COMMENT The controversial Scot who signed the America's Declaration of Independence

Magnus Hirschfeld’s trans clinic was ransacked by the Nazis and yet forgotten by history

COMMENT Steph Paton: We must fight against the UK's historical erasure of the marginalised

Today is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Dr John Witherspoon

BACK IN THE DAY Scottish Founding Father’s US legacy should be acknowledged

The detectorist woke up the next morning to the local schools closed

First-time metal detectorist tells of panic after finding WWI mortar bomb

A new sculpture of surgeon Elsie Inglis is to go on display in a museum in Edinburgh

EXCLUSIVE New sculpture of 'beloved' Scot to go on display after controversy

Shetland's Up Helly Aa festivals attract thousands of people every year

Shetlanders explain the Up Helly Aa tradition – in their native Shaetlan language

Treatment of our animals must reflect the values of an independent nation

comment Treatment of our animals must reflect the values of an independent nation

The castle is said to have inspired Walt Disney’s Cinderella Castle

Major project set to protect and future-proof the famous pink exterior of castle

We are not even certain about her own name for, maddeningly, in her only publication she calls herself “Mrs Fulhame”.

BACK IN THE DAY The mysterious case of Elizabeth Fulhame, a chemist and true pioneer of science

Jordi Solé has served as an MEP for the Republican Left of Catalonia since 2017.

comment Jordi Solé MEP: The hope you will rejoin the EU is shared by a majority of colleagues

Bronze Age horns, such as those held in Belfast, are magnificent to look at and wonderful to play and (Right) a Gerald of Wales portrayal of a man with a horn from c1188

Essay Bronze Age economics: You spend money on the things that matter most to you - music

Pictured at the Memorial: (L-R) Bart Delabastita, Jo Delabastita, Stirling Provost Douglas Dodds, Dirk Delabastita, Lord Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk Alan Simpson, Paul Delabastita.

Memorial marks Belgian fighter pilot who crash-landed a Spitfire during WW2

Dr Edwin Muir (Left) and Hugh MacDiarmid (Right)

History It is time for us to concede MacDiarmid had the better of the argument over Muir

Oliver Cromwell’s time as supreme ruler of Great Britain lasted until September 3, 1658

BACK IN THE DAY A lesson we can take from Oliver Cromwell’s Union

Jane Haining refused to abandon the children in her care

Story of heroic Scot who was killed in the Holocaust to be told again

Correct usage is indicated by the suggestion that we should 'scotch the corruption of the word Scots'

Letters ‘Scotch’ should never be used to describe people, pies or pancakes

The humble neep is a root vegetable many of us scarcely look twice at the rest of the year

COMMENT Don't overlook the miracle of the modern neep this Burns Night

Notes on Scottish Songs

Rabbie Burns's handwritten poetry found on his work stationery

Scots poet Robbie Burns in his cottage composing 'The Cotter's Saturday Night'

COMMENT Rabbie’s Bairns: Scottish champion of liberty has enthralled generations

Williamina Fleming discovered the Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion

BACK IN THE DAY The female Scottish astronomer who discovered the famous Horsehead Nebula

Tom Nairn at home by Stewart Attwood

COMMENT SNP leadership should step up to ensure Tom Nairn's legacy is remembered

Professor Gerard Carruthers was able to examine the Burnsiana book

University experts reveal 'game-changing' Robert Burns discovery

Rocks are among the earliest of human instruments

ESSAY Classic rock: The Scottish stones that have been making music for centuries

The Scottish soldier and stargazer who gave his name to an Australian city

The Scottish soldier and stargazer who gave his name to an Australian city

Ged O’Brien traces the Scottish roots of modern football and discovers the Scotch Professors who founded two of Spain’s leading clubs – and the links with Dundee and marmalade…

How Scots brought football to Spain on Burns Night 1890

St Rule's Tower and the grounds of St Andrews Cathedral

Historic tower re-opens to public after repairs amid climate change

Neolithic farmers may have faced more violent confrontations than was once believed

Ancient human remains reveal violent side of prehistoric farming

Many Glasgow streets have links to the slave trade

Glasgow won't 'rush' to change street names linked to slavery

College friends congratulate Victoria Drummond

BACK IN THE DAY The Perthshire girl who blazed a trail as Scotland's first female marine engineer

The Great Scottish Tapestry is making its presence felt

Study sets out boost delivered by The Great Scottish Tapestry

A scene of Darien Harbour taken in 1871

BACK IN THE DAY The Darien disaster does not define story of Scottish colonisations

'The ignorant people who denigrate Scots should read Robert Burns’s The Auld Farmer’s New Year Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare Maggie on giving her the accustomed rip of corn'

ESSAY Music for midwinter: Scotland's oldest music and the tunes for cold nights

New Lanark, the Scottish industrial revolution community village managed by social pioneer Robert Owen

BACK IN THE DAY Why one Scottish village became celebrated all across Europe

Home Secretary Suella Braverman was upbraided for her 'dehumanising' descriptions of refugees by a Holocaust survivor

Holocaust survivor praised for bravery in standing up to Home Secretary

Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference near the end of the end of World War II

THE BIG READ How Churchill tried to put the British Empire before destroying Nazism

Operation Overlord (The Normandy Landings): D-Day on 6 June 1944

EXCLUSIVE Historian’s book sets out new theory on Churchill’s real motivations during war

Kilbirnie Auld in Ayrshire. Credit: Roger Griffith.

Scottish churches look for a miracle in race to save buildings and treasures within

Pitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT) is showing Blaccine: The First Dose.

Review Theatre show set to put the Black experience of pandemic and vaccines in context

Home Office seeks to remove video of Holocaust survivor confronting Home Secretary

watch Home Office seeks to remove video of Holocaust survivor confronting Home Secretary

Kilmartin Castle co-owners Simon Hunt and his wife Stephanie Burgon celebrated the news

Scottish site ranked as fourth top place to visit worldwide by major US publication

Cartographers deal in facts, and there is no island called Britain off the coast of France

Reference to the mythical place ‘Britain’ is nothing but a political ploy

England's Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has stated that the sculptures belong in the UK

Letters 'Elgin' marbles claim shows the arrogance of the British empire mentality

Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human by shedding their skin

Prince Harry thanks Scottish selkies for Meghan's pregnancy after serenading seals

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Visit to Edinburgh in 2018

THE JOUKER Listen to Prince Harry try to do a Scottish accent for his audiobook

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£2 for two months How to build Scotland's confidence: An exclusive series to kick off the new year

Robert the Bruce finally got English recognition of his kingship and Scottish independence in 1328 after Edward III reluctantly agreed. If only gaining independence in the 21st century was as easy as the king signing a peace treaty

BACK IN THE DAY 1513 And All That: A Memorable History of Scotland - part two

Visitors will soon be able to visit the 800-year-old stronghold that sheltered Mary Queen of Scots in 1548

Date set for Dumbarton Castle to reopen after climate change assessment

Glasgow-born Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s 1905-8 administration secured a number of important social reforms

HISTORY Remembering the last Scot to be a successful prime minister

It was in 1707 that John Dalrymple died at his lodgings in Edinburgh, apparently from an apoplexy that may have been brought on by his huge efforts in trying to achieve the union of the Scottish and English Parliaments

BACK IN THE DAY Why the nine of diamonds is known as the curse of Scotland

Charles Cameron felt his proto-Sodastream technology could

HISTORY How one Scot's chemist soda technology nearly sparked a transport revolution

William the Lion recklessly charges the English army at the Battle of Alnwick and is captured

back in the day 1513 And All That: A Memorable History of Scotland - part two

Mary Slessor with some of the children she adopted after saving their lives

history The Scottish missionary who went from a Dundee workhouse to the Nigerian jungle