BACK IN THE DAY Did St Andrews make golf, or did golf make St Andrews?
IN this final column of three about the town of St Andrews, I will show how it became the most famous town in Scotland due almost entirely to the game of golf ...
IN this final column of three about the town of St Andrews, I will show how it became the most famous town in Scotland due almost entirely to the game of golf ...
IT was striking during the week how many times the inauguration of John Swinney was referred to as a historic moment. Indeed it was, as the change of the head of any government will be recorded in history.
IN this second of a series of three columns about the ancient town of St Andrews, I will be concentrating on the events and personalities that put it at the heart of the Scottish Protestant Reformation...
SOMETIME round about now we should be celebrating the 900th anniversary of the coronation of King David I, who succeeded his brother Alexander I when he died on April 24, 1124.
THERE are several candidates for the title of the most famous town in Scotland – Ayr with its links to Robert Burns, Paisley as the largest town in Scotland in terms of population, or perhaps Arbroath as home of that famous declaration of independence in 1320.
LAST week, I wrote about the 900th anniversary of the death of King Alexander I on April 23, 1124. His demise brought to King David I to the throne – the sixth and youngest son of King Malcolm III (Canmore) and his wife Margaret of Wessex, later Saint Margaret.
ONE of my favourite areas of Scotland is East Lothian, not only because it is replete with history but also because it is usually the sunniest district of this country...
THIS week sees the 900th anniversary of the death of a King of Scots, Alexander I, and the immediate ascension to the throne of his brother, the much more famous King David I.
TODAY I have reached the most remote of the ancient towns covered so far in this series and one which is unique on the west side of Scotland because it owes its foundation not to Scots but to Vikings.
THIS week sees the bicentenary of the death of one of the greatest English poets, Lord George Gordon Byron, the man who was famously described by his lover Lady Caroline Lamb as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”.
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