Tag: History

Gladstone’s highland home on sale for £9.3m

THE ancestral Highland estate where one of Britain’s best-known Prime Ministers took refuge from the trials of office has come on the market for...

Amazing underwater pictures of the grave of Lord Kitchener

REMARKABLE pictures have emerged of the underwater grave of Lord Kitchener and 736 other men who perished when their warship hit a mine 100...

Castle once owned by world’s first firearm assassin up for sale

THE ruins of a castle which once belonged to a Scot who carried out the world's first documented assassination by firearm have gone on...

Remarkable images show how bagpipes depicted in art throught history

REMARKABLE images have emerged of the weird and wonderful way bagpipes have been depicted in art throughout history - including as genitalia, a self-playing...

Stone Age Orcadians chopped up their dead relatives

STONE Age Orkney islanders chopped up their dead relatives before mixing the grisly remains in communal pits. A new forensic study of human remains on...

Scots castle that “broke” Samuel Johnson on sale for £450K – fainthearted need not apply

A REMOTE Scottish castle that tested the adventuring spirit of writer Samuel Johnson to destruction could be yours for just £450,000. Breachacha Castle is an...

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