Edinburgh residents line up on tartan plaids for the parade during Edinburgh’s 1922 centennial celebration. The town is celebrating its bicentennial in 2022 with a year-long slate of activities and ...

1780- Bowed Joseph died. Bowed Joseph born in the cowgate was a famous Edinburgh agitator and took part in riots. 1790- Leith dockers strike 1864- Annuity tax riot. 1865-Midlothian farmworkers' union ...

Here are 28 pictures to take you back to the Leith of the 1950s and 1960s. We’ve raided our archives to take a look at what ...

The Royal Mile links Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace, with lots of stops along the way. This is where visitors can shop for the perfect souvenir, like a wool scarf or tweed bag; swing by a bar ...

His original creator Arthur Conan Doyle might have based the groundbreaking detective in London but the character was conceived and inspired by Conan Doyle’s training in Edinburgh’s world-renowned ...

A range of documentaries for BBC Two and iPlayer includes a new historical crime series with Lucy Worsley and a sixth series of A House Through Time with David Olusoga ...

The introduction has been written by acclaimed BBC war correspondent and former MP Martin Bell, who describes the story as ...

A view over central Edinburgh at sunset, taken from Calton Hill, with the stone memorial to Dugald Stewart (1753 - 1828) in the foreground. Dating back to the 15th century as the capital of Scotland, ...

I spent a day exploring a network of underground streets in Edinburgh, Scotland. Mary King's Close dates back to the 17th century and is said to be haunted. After learning about the eerie history, I ...