History

Stephen Lees, with a special limited edition miniature Sunday Post newspaper from 1933, which he found in his late father's belongings

Always first with the big news (even on tiny pages): Mystery solved for family baffled by miniature Sunday Post

June 14, 2021

Gladstone’s Land in Edinburgh is reopening on May 21 (National Trust for Scotland/PA)

Royal Mile tenement museum reopens after £1.5m restoration

May 21, 2021

A scientist controls a 3D scanner over the alleged remains of bones of Christopher Columbus and family members, in the Anthropology Laboratory at Granada University in Spain (AP)

Countdown begins to discover where explorer Christopher Columbus came from

May 19, 2021

Workmen install a section of the original wooden foremast from HMS Victory with a hole in the middle made by a cannon ball during the Battle of Trafalgar (Andrew Matthews/PA)

HMS Victory mast damaged at the Battle of Trafalgar to go on display

May 3, 2021

A marble bust of Nero from Italy around AD 55 (Francesco Piras/MiC Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari/PA)

Nero exhibition to look at misogynistic treatment of women

April 22, 2021

Edinburgh and the Lothians sites to open on Friday April 30 include Newhailes House (NTS/PA)

National Trust for Scotland sets out plans to reopen sites

April 21, 2021

The battlefield viewed from Scottish lines (National Trust for Scotland/PA)

Culloden battlefield maps provide accurate picture of 1746 landscape

April 17, 2021

A 17th-century Arabian silver coin, top, that research shows was struck in 1693 in Yemen, rests near an Oak Tree Shilling minted in 1652 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, below, and a Spanish half real coin from 1727, right, on a table, in Warwick, Rhode Island (Steven Senne/AP)

Ancient coins may solve mystery of notorious 17th-century English pirate

April 1, 2021

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Report on racial disparities in Britain ‘out of step with public opinion’ – NEU

March 31, 2021

The report said ‘neither the banning of white authors or token expressions of black achievement will help to broaden young minds’ (Danny Lawson/PA)

Commission chair accused of ‘putting positive spin on slavery and empire’

March 31, 2021

April re-opening dates set for Scotland’s castles, cathedrals and museums

April re-opening dates set for Scotland’s castles, cathedrals and museums

March 29, 2021