The Scottish Invasion of England 1648: The Engager Army’s Doomed March
The Scottish invasion of England 1648 began on 8 July, when a Covenanter faction known as the...
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Category: Dark History
Johnnie Armstrong: The Border Reiver King Betrayed by James V
Johnnie Armstrong had an invitation from the king to join a royal hunting party. Johnnie boasted...
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Flora MacDonald: Over the Sea to Skye
Flora MacDonald stepped into history on a stormy night in June 1746. After his army was crushed at...
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Charles II, the Solemn League and Covenant, and the Forgotten Scottish Bargain
Charles II is remembered on an unobtrusive plaque in Garmouth, attached to the side of a house in...
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Rosemarkie: Saints, Stones and a Brutal Pictish Murder
Rosemarkie sits quietly on the Black Isle, a small, picturesque village in a sheltered bay on the...
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The Maiden: Scotland’s Guillotine and the Lives It Claimed
The Maiden dropped its blade on James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, at the Mercat Cross in...
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