Letters signed by Mary, Queen of Scots and her husband Lord Darnley urging a Highland family to keep the peace in and around ...

by the 13th century many had established firm roots in the Highlands. The clans were the primary political system in Scotland until the time of the battle of Culloden in 1746, which marked the end ...

It’s a great culture with a proud history of traditions and a rich heritage of clans, warriors, poets, and artists. In the ...

This painting is called The Last of the Clans and it was inspired by the ... or 'cleared' from their land, people in the Highlands of Scotland lived and worked in places called crofts.

From workwear to tourist souvenirs, clans ... Highlands—cleared of many of its inhabitants following Culloden—were relegated into the “wild” and “empty” idyll of tourist brochures ...

A piece of fabric discovered in a bog in the Scottish Highlands might be the oldest ... and have been used for centuries by Scottish clans and families as a badge of identity.

A piece of fabric discovered in a bog in the Scottish Highlands might be the oldest ... and have been used for centuries by Scottish clans and families as a badge of identity.

So in much of the Highlands, we see that it’s hilly, and there’s lots of sheep.” The history lesson resonated because it was ...