Using Google Earth as our battlefield map, we trace the First Scottish War of Independence from 1296 to 1328. We follow English invasions, Scottish uprisings, and the shifting control of castles, ...

THE UNION between Scotland and England in 1707 created the United Kingdom. Since then Scotland has provided prime ministers, such as Gordon Brown, intellectual luminaries like Adam Smith and David ...

Murray Leith has previously received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020, and the UK Ministry of Defence. He is currently working on research funded by the Scottish Government. If the SNP ...

For most people outside Scotland, myself included, the debate over Scottish independence has been largely peripheral. I've come across it occasionally, but bigger things have always taken my attention ...

At the Scottish National Party's recent annual conference, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's first minister, said she had "never been so certain" that Scotland would become an independent nation. "Who do we ...

Protesters with Scottish Saltire flags attend a march calling for Scottish independence in Glasgow on January 11, 2020. Correspondent Scotland could be one step closer to becoming an independent ...