From the Picts to the present — the stories behind the stones.
Beneath Edinburgh’s Royal Mile lie nineteen sealed stone chambers — a forgotten city of cobblers, taverns, and lost lives. The South Bridge Vaults were shut in the early 1800s and untouched for nearly 200 years. Here’s what was found inside — plus get weekly Scotland stories free.
Beneath Edinburgh’s Royal Mile lie nineteen sealed stone chambers — a forgotten city of cobblers, taverns, and lost lives. The South Bridge Vaults were shut in the early 1800s and untouched for nearly 200 years. Here’s what was found inside — plus get weekly Scotland stories free.
Walk up the Vennel steps from the Grassmarket and you’ll find stone walls more than 500 years old — built in panic after Scotland’s darkest military defeat. Edinburgh’s Flodden Wall is still there, free to visit, and almost nobody knows it. — plus get weekly Scotland stories free.
For 111 years, the Honours of Scotland — the oldest crown jewels in the British Isles — sat locked in a chest in Edinburgh Castle, forgotten. This is the story of how they survived Cromwell, hid under a church floor, and were found by a novelist. Plus get weekly Scotland stories free.
The Scottish crown jewels hidden for over a century — and the writer who found them Read More »
Burke and Hare sold 16 murder victims to Edinburgh’s finest surgeon — and nearly got away with it. Here’s the full dark story — plus get weekly Scotland stories free.
The Edinburgh murders that changed medicine forever — and still haunt the city today Read More »
In the 18th century, Edinburgh’s Old Town coffee houses and closes produced the thinkers who invented modern economics, geology, and philosophy — here’s where to find their stories today, plus get weekly Scotland stories free.
How a small Scottish city gave the world capitalism, geology, and modern philosophy Read More »
Beneath Edinburgh Castle lies a square where hundreds were executed — and where the city now gathers for its finest pint. The Grassmarket is the Old Town’s most compelling space — plus get weekly Scotland stories free.
The Edinburgh square that went from public gallows to the city’s best night out Read More »
Deacon Brodie was Edinburgh’s most respected craftsman and town councillor by day — and its most cunning burglar by night. His extraordinary double life inspired one of literature’s greatest stories. — plus get weekly Scotland stories free.
The Edinburgh man who lived a double life — and inspired Jekyll and Hyde Read More »
