With tickets for this year’s Edinburgh International Festival now on sale, Scotsman critics Kelly Apter, Joyce McMillan, Fiona Shepherd and Ken Walton offer their first impressions of this year’s prog ...

Queen walks in footsteps of Charles Dickens on visit to his former home - Camilla visited the writer’s only remaining London ...

An iconic Penkridge pub – said to date back to Tudor times and rumoured to have been visited by Queen Elizabeth I and Mary ...

An iconic Staffordshire pub which is said to date back to Tudor times and rumoured to have been visited by Queen Elizabeth I ...

1603: Scottish King James VI, son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, joining the English and Scottish crowns. On the same day, Tokugawa Ieyasu is ...

THIS week sees the 400th anniversary of the death of one of Scotland and Britain’s most important kings. On March 27, 1625, King James VI and ...

An iconic Midlands pub which is said to date back to Tudor times and rumoured to have been visited by Queen Elizabeth I and ...

Eager to be first in line, the astute James VI of Scotland responded to the question of the English succession with a war of ...

TV historian Professor Kate Williams visited a Bournemouth school to give a specialist lecture on Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. Talbot Heath School welcomed Professor Williams, a renowned ...

Given the maelstrom of disinformation and growing tension on the world stage, this year’s 2025 International Festival theme ...