Edinburgh may have changed somewhat since the young Queen Victoria’s assessment almost two centuries ago, but there is no ...

The Williamsburg Bray School, now part of Colonial Williamsburg, taught free and enslaved Black children for several years in ...

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose ...

So the scenes in this selection of photos may well look strange and unfamiliar to those at school today.But for others the ...

Author and historian Christopher Ridgway has been head curator of Castle Howard for 40 years. From Kent, he first visited the ...

It is probably fair to say that among the first things you might think of in relation to Jane Austen would be a glamorous ...

The remains, held by the university’s Anatomical Museum for over a century, were formally handed over to the Ainu Association of Hokkaido in Edinburgh.

Scotland Now History 18th Century Scots murder victim's belongings to be displayed after being preserved in peat bog The belongings of an 18th-century murder victim, hastily buried in a peat bog ...

Mr Pryer cites Giuseppe Tartini, an 18th Century violin virtuoso who composed the Devil's Trill Sonata, a piece so complicated many modern players struggle to master it. "He did this incredibly ...

Edinburgh is not just the capital of Scotland, it is also the capital of the “Caledonian Antisyzygy”: the idea that the presence of duelling polarities is a defining characteristic of the ...

Royal Portraits: A Century Of Photography will run from 28 February until 7 September, after previously being exhibited in London, at Buckingham Palace. Alessandro Nasini, curator of the ...