Known as 'Picti' by the Romans, meaning 'Painted Ones' in Latin, these northern tribes constituted the largest kingdom in Dark Age Scotland. They repelled the conquests of both Romans and Angles, ...

However, some scholars are now rethinking the manuscript’s origin with some suggesting that the historic text may have been made by the Picts in the ... the origin of the Book of Kells—and the place ...

The programme of events and attractions has been revealed ahead of next month's highly-anticipated Spectra Festival, which returns to Aberdeen city centre from February 6 to 9.

Award-winning Scottish artist, Council Baby, the heartbeats of 60 Aberdonians, a 50m long multi-sensory walkway, a sprawling illuminated fungal network, and Scottish illustrator, Johanna Basford OBE, ...

For history bugs like me this is Disneyland ... However, as the guide book explained, they never actually conquered Scotland, so bang went that idea, and they moved to Londinium.

In the century following Colum Cille’s death in 597, new monasteries were founded at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, Rathlin Island, Innisboffin (County Galway) and in the lands of the Picts in Scotland .

Archaeological finds have shown that Yorkshire was occupied at a time when early hunters from continental Europe were no...

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A comparison between the Picts and the Scotti is made by focusing on the designs of their brooches and the use of different languages. The theory that the Scotti originated in Ireland, and took ...

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"High Banks & Heroes," with foreword by Richard Petty, tells the history of the Daytona 500. But it also chronicles earlier Daytona racing and speed.

This month, the books selected celebrate Black History Month as well as Presidents Day.