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Scotland at the dawn of the 15th century was a wretched spectacle. Whilethe feeble Robert III still clung to his throne, his kingdom rang withthe sound of conflict as his son and brother grappled for power.Sir James Douglas of Aberdour, married as he was to the...
With the heir to the throne murdered, King Robert III a sick weakling,and his remaining son a child, Scotland and the Stewarts were in a badway three generations on from the great Bruce. But two young men stoodout: Alex Stewart, bastard son of the notorious Wolf of...
When his mother, the formidable Black Agnes, bequeathed him the troubled earldom of Moray in the far north of Scotland, John Cospatrick, younger son of the ninth Earl of Dunbar and March, found himself unexpectedly elevated to become King David's lieutenant and arbiter...
In 1678, Scotland liesunder the dark threat of union with England. In an era of intrigue and bloodshed, Andrew Fletcher, laird of Saltoun, stands out as a man of ideals and integrity. His fearless and dogged opposition to the Treaty becomes a thirty-year campaign...
Only eighteen years old when she returned to Scotland to rule, the beautiful but unfortunate Mary Stuart was in dire need of protection: from the savage religious intolerance of the time, from scoundrels in high places, even from the men she injudiciously married....
In 1649 Charles II left his exile in the Netherlands and sailed toScotland. Arriving at the small fishing village of Garmouth, he faced amixed reception from the minister of the Kirk.The exiled king was to remain in Scotland for a year, learning moreabout his northern...
The quashing of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 saw an end to the ambitions of the exiled house of Stuart. But somehow the young pretender, Prince Charles Edward, otherwise known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, manage to avoid arrest.For six extraordinary months the handsome...
The brutal murder of James I, King of Scots, at Perth in 1437 left hisseven-year-old son to rule over a troubled kingdom. Power-hungry lordsseized their chance to gain control over the boy-king James II and hisrealm.When young Alexander Lyon, son of the Thane of...
During the 16th century, the Borderland between Scotland and England was something of a world apart, with its own strange laws, beliefs and customs.Young John Maxwell, Warden of the West March, did his best to control a motley crew of dalesmen and mosstroopers from...
A casket of incriminating letters from Mary, Queen of Scots. The letters would be an instrument of persuasion - or blackmail as others might call it. Whoever held them had a hold over the James VI King of Scots, now also King James I of England.But for Andrew, seventh...
Little is known about Thomas Learmonth of Ercildoune, vassal and esquireof the Earl of Dunbar, poet and prophesier known as 'Thomas the Rhymer'.During the reign of the Scottish King Alexander III, a time when thesword ruled over all and the treachery of the powerful...
Once again Scotland was fighting for her survival as a free andindependent nation.Robert the Bruce's legacy, three years after his death in 1329, is indanger. With a five-year-old heir guarded by an ageing and diminishingband of lieutenants, the English King, Edward...
During the reign of Malcolm IV, King of the Scots, Hugh de Swinton andhis fellow mosstroopers helped keep the rampaging Galloway rebels atbay. But it was for his expertise in the killing of wild boars, asprotector of the Swintons' sheep flocks, that young Hugh was...
Half-Celt and half-Saxon, King David determined to take hold of hisbackward, patriarchal, strife-ridden country and, against all the odds,pushed and dragged it into the forefront of Christendom's advancingnations.This is a story of independence, single-mindedness and...
Alexander III of Scotland was just seven years old when he inherited thethrone. South of the border, England's King Henry III saw this as hischance to assert his paramountcy over the kingdom. At the age of ten,the boy was married to Henry's daughter.But through the...
Seventh son of the penurious Laird of Balfour, the fiercely ambitiousDavid Beaton was determined to rise in the world - by whatever meansavailable. Never one to be burdened by scruples, he cynically used theChurch for his own ends to become one of the most able...
Laird of a small estate, Will Alexander of Menstrie, poet and tutor, wasa man of modest ambitions. But when James VI learned of his poeticgenius, the king had other plans for him.In 1603, when James VI of Scotland became James I of England, hesummoned Will to London...
First she was Margaret the refugee. A Saxon princess, sister of EdgarAtheling who, but for William the Conqueror, would have been King ofEngland. She came to Scotland in 1069.Beautiful, sympathetic and devout, she was an unlikely consort to therough and ready Malcolm...
Across a huge colourful canvas, ranging from the wilds of Scotland toNorway, Denmark and Rome, here is the story of the real MacBeth.Set aside Shakespeare's portrait: read instead of his struggle to makeand save a united Scotland.In this impressively researched and...
In 1745 the Highlanders limped away from the bitter field of Culloden. Soon the Duke of Cumberland was offering a huge sum for the capture of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, dead or alive. Duncan MacGregor, great-nephew of Rob Roy, volunteers to join the small band of...
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