Our objective today is to get to the eve of the Viking invasions, through the lives of Bridei, Adomnan and Onuist. We left the world of Northern Britain andRead More

Mary’s decision to flee to England in May 1568 is often seen as a disastrous one, with the hindsight which is so useful to shed-bound history Podcasters, desperately podcasting aboutRead More

Darnley was a good looking young man. Admittedly before he’d originally arrived, the Scottish envoy in London, James Melville, had rather dissed the lad to Elizabeth, seeking to re-assure herRead More

Mary made a remarkably good and quick crossing to Scotland from France, arriving in the firth of Forth on 10th August1561 as the sun was shining, at Leith. This hadRead More

So ladies and Gentlemen, we have arrived at one of THE stories of Scottish History, nay British History, nay European history. The story of Mary Queen of Scots, a storyRead More

Last time, the good burgers of Perth had been persuaded that nothing good could come from standing against the Regent, persuaded among others by the protestant Lord James Stewart. TheyRead More

Now then, in the last few episodes we have danced gaily through the meadow of James V’s reign, frolicked carelessly in the pastures of the early years of the Mary’sRead More