Certain memories still cause shudders in the post-Second World War generation of British schoolchildren. School dinner tapioca with a blob of jam in it. Being forced to perform gymnastics in the ...

Welcome to Historic UK’s Living History Events Diary! One of the most enjoyable ways to experience history first hand is to attend one of the many Living History re-enactments taking place this year.

The word “clann” comes from the Gaelic and means children, and its members claimed kinship from the common ancestor whose name they bore, and even the poorest clansman considered themselves of nobler ...

To many people on the UK mainland and beyond, the Shetland and Orkney Islands are ‘somewhere up at the top’ of the map of Great Britain. In fact the Shetland Isles are located in the North Atlantic, ...

Some have said: ‘The Darien Venture was the most ambitious colonial scheme attempted in the 17th century… The Scots were the first to realise the strategic ...

The Brahan Seer, or Coinneach Odhar, was gifted with “the sight” – an ability to see visions that came unbidden day or night. His prophecies were so impressive that they are still quoted to this day. ...

On 9th May 1386 the diplomatic alliance between Portugal and England was ratified by the Treaty of Windsor. The oldest peace treaty in Europe was finalised through the marriage of King John I of ...

The union flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is sometimes referred to as the Union Jack and is made up of three overlaid crosses. One of these crosses is the flag of the ...

The names of the great Scottish inventors role easily off the tongue; John Logie Baird (television), Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), Charles Macintosh (waterproofing), James Watt (steam engine ...

In the nineteenth century, Jane Elliot wrote a haunting ballad called “The Flowers of the Forest”. This haunting, beautiful ballad was written 300 years after the event it commemorates – the Battle of ...

Spiritualist, medium and the last person in Britain to be tried and sentenced under the 1735 Witchcraft Act. Born in Callander in 1897, the daughter of a cabinet-maker, Helen Duncan was a show woman ...