The Picts must have anticipated that Kenneth and the Gaels would have adopted Pictish ways, and become Picts. In fact, the reverse happened. As Kenneth rewarded kinsmen from Dalriada, giving them ...

EVERY politician knows them—the obsessives who write densely argued letters on obscure subjects and won't take no for an answer. The nightmare is the one who seems to have a point—like the one on the ...

ARCHAEOLOGICAL digs could reveal new evidence that the ancient Scots known as Picts were a sophisticated people who could read and write – not the tattooed, half-naked barbarians portrayed in ...

A study by the University of Aberdeen, based on bone artifacts from the Orkney site, reveals a complex and prolonged cultural transition, dismissing the theory of a violent and abrupt ethnic ...

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"In response to Royston Jones's excellent comments about Scottish identity, I do have to comment where he says "avoid the term 'Britons' and call them what they were - Welsh." - well the term "welsh" ...