James IV has been acclaimed by historians as the first true Renaissance king of Scotland. Under his rule, James patronised the arts and sciences and Scotland flourished as a result. It was during ...

And evidently, Scotland is not alone in this. Across the West, education is now treated merely as a path to a job - a utilitarian accoutrement of employment policy - rather than what it is: the ...

When in 1601 Edinburgh suffered the ravages of plague and King James VI was staying at the castle in Burntisland, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland was held in the new church of ...

When William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy performed a ‘flyting’ for James IV and his court, they turned the air blue What offends people changes over time. Today’s re-runs of 20th-century ...

After the death of James IV at the disastrous Battle of Flodden in 1513 Scotland once again had an infant Stewart king on the throne. And once again the regency years provided factional unrest and ...

daughter of James V of Scotland, sole heir and great granddaughter of Henry VII, King of England, through his elder daughter Margaret, (who was joined in marriage to James IV of Scotland): great-great ...

Items include a Unicorn coin from the reign of James IV, which would have been minted in Edinburgh and gifted to travelling ambassadors and dignitaries to spend while in Scotland. A boss taken ...