A day out in Edinburgh recently and walking through the Cowgate, I passed this sign. Few figures in sixteenth-century Scotland aroused str...

Sited at the other end of the Royal Mile to Edinburgh Castle stands Holyrood Palace. It's built on what remains of an Augustinian Priory...

'Speak properly,' my mother was forever reminding me as a child. By which, of course, she meant don't use Scots - either the wor...

We're having something of a surge in historical fiction films at the moment. You can lose yourself in the politics of medieval or Tudor ...

How to upstage a queen Jill Armitage's previous book was about Arbella Stuart, a possible claimant to the throne of England when Eliza...

It must have seemed the perfect solution. Marry Edward, the boy heir to the throne of England to Mary, the child queen of the Scots, and y...