Pictured is the Women of World War II memorial surrounded ... in place-names around the country, from Ben Macdui (Gaelic) to Stornoway (Norse) via Aberdeen (Pictish). The Welsh are primarily ...

A Scotscalder man, considered one of the most important painters in Scotland today, will have a solo exhibition in Glasgow ...

and the Norse – and you can see this mixture reflected in place-names around the country, from Ben Macdui (Gaelic) to Stornoway (Norse) via Aberdeen (Pictish). The Welsh are primarily descended ...

The arrival of fall always brings out the Gilmore Girls nostalgia – so we looked into the names of some of the show's most ...

His name is the Gaelic for the Norse Ivar, and his associations are principally maritime ... The monks and lay brothers gave shelter and food to many foreigners with women and children for six days ...

937 Battle of Brunanburh English victory in 937 by the army of Æthelstan, King of England, and his brother Edmund over the combined armies of Olaf III Guthfrithson, the Norse-Gael King of Dublin ...

In both cases there would be a Wren Captain, usually wearing a cape and carrying a sword, musicians, strawboys and others dressed as old women or other things ... The Manx spoke Brythonic before they ...

Skull modification is a rarer phenomenon in Viking Age Gotland, with only three known cases, all of which are female. These ...

Fiona Edmonds, Dr FIONA EDMONDS is Reader in History and Director of the Regional Heritage Centre at Lancaster University. To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide ...

Archaeologist Karla Dana died after a Viking ship replica she was aboard capsized off the west coast of Norway (Pictures: @sail2north/Instagram) A US woman aboard a ...