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Stories older than the roads.

Sieges, massacres, murders and the odd miracle, told by people who grew up with them.

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18401840A Devastating Aberdeenshire Feud12861286A King’s Death at Kinghorn13991399A Prince’s Murder At Falkland Palace15131513A Royal Warning At Linlithgow Palace18911891Andrew Carnegie16891689Battle of Dunkeld15681568Battle of Langside13961396Battle of North Inch12971297Battle of Stirling Bridge18821882Battle of the Braes15421542Battle of the Shirts18331833Betsy Miller – The Queen of Saltcoats20132013Bridge to Nowhere19821982Calum’s Road15301530Clan Armstrong Betrayed19121912Commemorating The Battle of LargsHistoryDunure Castle and the Roasting of the CommendatorHistoryEdinburgh’s Most Famous Serial Killers16791679Fife’s Opportunistic Assassins17901790Flora MacDonald – A Jacobite Heroine17451745Flora MacDonald – The Unlikely Jacobite HeroineHistoryGlencoe Lochan – A Canadian Love Letter17451745Glenfinnan and The Raising of The Standard18561856Greyfriars Bobby - The Most Faithful Dog In The World19011901Irn-Bru16371637Jenny Geddes and the St Giles’ Riot19391939Jim Baxter19651965Johnny One ArmHistoryKing of KippenHistoryNuclear Caithness17451745Old Castle Lachlan’s Last Chief17881788Old Edinburgh’s Unlikely Criminal15281528Patrick Hamilton – The St Andrews Martyr13141314Roxburgh Castle & The Douglas Cows18511851Scottish Deer Centre14451445The Battle of Arbroath15941594The Battle of Glenlivet16441644The Battle of Justice Mill16891689The Battle of Killiecrankie12631263The Battle of Largs13071307The Battle of Loch Trool14401440The Black Dinner17461746The Brave Sacrifice Of Roderick Mackenzie17461746The Burning of Corgarff Castle11501150The Changing Fortunes of Kellie Castle13381338The Defence of Dunbar Castle17451745The First Shots of the Jacobite Rising18501850The Glasgow Glutton16921692The Glencoe Massacre15971597The Great Witch of Scotland16501650The Grey Mare’s Tail Covenanters13081308The Hidden Beauty of St Conan’s Kirk19751975The Hidden History of The Whaligoe Steps16711671The Highland Rogue17531753The Honourable Sergeant Mòr19661966The invention of the ATM16911691The Jacobite Garrison of The Bass Rock17461746The Lost Jacobite Gold15661566The Murderous Craigmillar Bond19211921The Raasay Raiders14111411The Red Battle of Harlaw16081608The Rise and Fall of the Stewart Earls17451745The Rout of Moy18321832The Scottish Seawolf of Culross12961296The Siege of Aberdeen Castle15451545The Siege Of Kelso Abbey15881588The Sunken Gold of Tobermory BayHistoryThe Unfortunate Fate Of The Fishing Witches15501550The Wicked Earls Of Castle Sinclair Girnigoe13051305Wallace Betrayed at Robroyston19761976Weir’s Way