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The Mystic Ring of Brodgar on the beautiful Orkney Islands (iStock)

A trip to the Orkney Islands is a history buff’s dream

 
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Museums

International Museum Day: Five of the best value attractions in Scotland

 
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The Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey, which marked the end of the era of passenger-carrying airships. (Sam Shere/Getty Images)

VIDEO: On this day 80 years ago, the doomed Hindenburg met its tragic end

 
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Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) plotters at work at Coastal Artillery Headquarters in Dover, December 1942 (Ted Dearberg/IWM/PA Wire)

Rare colour pictures of World War II feature in new book

 
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Viking actors (from left) Connor Milton, Jen Cresswell and Louisa Anderson, joined the Galloway Viking Hoard Campaign at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh as they hand over a petition calling for the items hidden for 1,000 years in Galloway to be kept in the area rather than moved to the National Museum of Scotland. (Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

‘Vikings’ take fight over treasure hoard to Scottish Parliament

 
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Thomas Telford's Menai Suspension Bridge, Wales (PA Archive/PA Images)

Thomas Telford was the farmhand who went on to build modern Britain

 
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Pic: Face of pictish murder victim reconstructed after cave find

 
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Mary Queen of Scots

Letter written by Mary Queen of Scots hours before execution goes on display

 
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Brother and sister, Peter and Sue Mowforth, who have made up a book of love letters they found between their parents, Olga and Cyril, which were written while Cyril, was away fighting during WWII (Andrew Cawley)

1000 love letters later: Words of love amid the horrors of war

 
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King George III

George III’s draft abdication letter among royal papers to be made public

 
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What else is December 25th famous for?

 

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