John Hill Burton was an advocate from 1831 and he became a significant figure in nineteenth century Scottish thought. His contribution is reassessed in this impressive study, by an independent scholar ...
Credit: Wellcome Collection via Wikimedia Commons In 1867, Lord Joseph Lister, another towering figure in Scottish medical history, published On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery ...
However, there are certain things people in Scotland have done on December 31 and January 1 for hundreds of years. Some of them are still practised to this very day. As we previously reported ...
They are among the most mysterious artefacts which have come down from Scotland’s dim and distant past. Carved stone balls which have been shaped by the hands of master masons in the late ...