Historisches Archive

Skaill House – a House Full of Memories on Orkney

Cool and grey on the outside, but inside, Skaill House holds 400 years of memories and stories. A visit to the estate brings them vividly to life.

Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre – Scotland’s Great Victory in 3D

The most important victory of the Scots over the English also has a magnificent monument to show for it. At the Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre you can relive the battle – even in 3D. “Here lies our land: every airt – Beneath swift clouds, glad glints of sun, – Belonging to none but itself.” […]

Isle of Iona – The Sacred Island of the Scots

It is considered a spiritual centre of Scotland – the place from which Christianity spread into the Highlands. The small island of Iona is geographically little more than an appendage of Mull. And yet it is so much more important than that. Emerald green, the isle sits on a turquoise sea as the small ferry […]

Kildalton Cross – a Historic Celtic Cross on Islay

A masterpiece among Celtic crosses. Kildalton Cross dates from the 9th century, and for hundreds of years it kept a grisly secret. They hadn’t bargained for a discovery like this: mutilated skeletons beneath this beautiful cross? What on earth had happened here? John Ramsay was a wealthy man: a Member of Parliament, owner of the […]

Alles über Historisches

Skaill House – a House Full of Memories on Orkney

Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre – Scotland’s Great Victory in 3D

Isle of Iona – The Sacred Island of the Scots

Kildalton Cross – a Historic Celtic Cross on Islay

Old Packhorse Bridge – the Coffin Bridge in Carrbridge

Sueno’s Stone – a Pictish giant stone

Blair Castle – rich, contested and beautiful

Muir of Dinnet and Burn o’ Vat – a walk through the millennia

The Caterthuns – two Iron Age forts with a view

St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh – magnificent building on the Royal Mile