William Wallace is forever remembered as a Scottish martyr and a symbol of Scotland’s struggle for independence.

The first ice cream-like food was developed in 7th century China where King Tang of Shang was known to eat an iced dessert made with buffalo milk, flour, and camphor.

It is important to remember the dangerous man that Dick Turpin really was.

At 3pm on the 8th May 1945, then Prime Minister Winston Churchill made an announcement on the radio that Germany had surrendered.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one of the original wonders of the world that still exists today.

Let’s get into the spirit of the season by highlighting some of the nation’s favourite springtime poems.

Darwin understood that character traits were passed down from parents to their offspring, though he couldn’t understand the mechanism for how this occurred.

Despite being attributed to Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne is a collection of traditional Scottish tunes which he collated into one song, in an attempt to preserve some of the oral culture of his country.

When the Vikings invaded, language in Britain saw a mingling of the Old Norse language and Old English, and many Norse words were adopted into the English language.

Whilst the most well-known mummies are those discovered in Egypt, many other civilisations across the globe have also been found to have preserved bodies in this way.