Originally the Norse came to Scotland only to plunder, but eventually they claimed lands and made settlements. From early in the 12th centur...

It was a valiant fight against overwhelming odds and few Scots can think of it without pride. King Robert surprised as he surveyed the battl...

Someone recently put it to me that Robert the Bruce and his captains were fighting for power, not for freedom. He commented that it was just...

I suppose that most of you are acquainted with this ballad. It is worth a look not only because it is a lovely ballad, a very old one at tha...

King William I is no doubt best known for adopting Scotland's royal Lion Rampant banner, hence his sobriquet 'the Lion'. He was ...

First, I apologize for my several months' absence. I won't go into health issues, but there have been several. Happily, they were no...

Because of the huge interest and emphasis on the centuries of war between England and Scotland, that Scotland was part of the larger communi...

 By the time of the death of King Robert the Bruce, his great captain, James, the Black Douglas, was one of the most powerful and richest me...

Agnes Reynolds, Countess of Dunbar, must have watched from the ramparts as William Montague, Earl of Salisbury's huge English army surge...

Or in the case of my novels, let's not, because medieval Scots did not wear kilts. Yes, like almost everything else in Braveheart , the ...

We should not be surprised that Agnes Randolph, Countess of Dunbar, often called Black Agnes because of her black hair and dark complexion, ...

First, I apologise for being a few days late with this post. I misjudged and was overwhelmed with other commitments. I know better, but that...

 Short answer: No. But there is another longer, more complicated answer about how and why so many people of Norman ancestry ended up in Scot...

Thanks to Shakespeare, Macbeth is one of the better-known of the early kings of Scotland - or Alba as it was then known. Supposedly, he was ...