Scold’s bridle: the humiliating punishment for women who spoke in the 1500s
Disgusting.
Scotland
Máel Brigte of Moray: the Scotsman who killed a Viking with his own severed head
You can take our lives, but you’ll never take our fight!
Is the grim legend of the Cat Man of Greenock actually true?
Sing along now! Na na na na na na na na – Cat Man!
Scotland greets Donald Trump
Today in Scotland a street campaign was launched warning the public of a highly toxic and dangerous man who is currently visiting the country. The…
‘Make Life Worth Living’: A look at Scotland’s grim tenement slums, 1969-72
For a large swathe of the UK’s population, life in the swinging sixties was not all miniskirts, psychedelia and Beatle wigs–it was hard dismal work,…
Jessica Mitford’s eccentric piano-tuning son is living on a beach in Scotland
Jessica Mitford’s only surviving son, Ben Treuhaft, is currently living in a tent on Portobello Beach, in Edinburgh, Scotland, which, as you can imagine, is…