Explore Scotland
Every place is part of a bigger story.
Start with the people, events or legends that interest you. Each guide connects the history to real places you can visit, then lets you turn them into a route of your own.
Kings, Queens & Rebellion
Mary, Queen of Scots
A queen at six days old, a reign that ended in exile
Jacobites & Bonnie Prince Charlie
The 1745 rising and the last attempt to restore a Stuart king
William Wallace
The rebel leader of the Wars of Independence
Robert the Bruce
From excommunicated rebel to king of an independent Scotland
Macbeth — the real king behind Shakespeare
The historical 11th-century king behind the play
Clans, Conflict & Change
Armstrongs & Border Reivers
16th-century reiver history in the Scottish Borders
Glencoe — MacDonalds & Campbells
The 1692 massacre and the clan feud behind it
Highland Clearances
The forced removal of Highland communities
Scottish Wars of Independence
Scotland's fight against English rule, 1296-1357
Scottish Reformation / John Knox
1560: Scotland breaks from Rome
Saints & Sacred Scotland
Scotland Before Scotland
Neolithic Scotland
Scotland's Stone Age monuments and settlements
The Picts
The carved-stone people of early medieval Scotland
Vikings in Scotland
Norse settlement and rule across the north and isles
Romans at the Edge of Empire
The frontier the Roman Empire never fully conquered
Scotland on Screen
Stories & Culture
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