By the middle of the 18th century, Scotland had established itself as a major centre of scientific and philosophical thought. Scots such as Adam Smith, David Hume and Joseph Black became known across ...

According to 18th-century writer Daniel Defoe, Edinburgh’s High Street was “the largest, longest and finest Street for Buildings and Number of Inhabitants, not in Britain only, but in the ...

A $6 piece of marble that was used as a doorstop is actually a treasured 18th century bust of a Scottish politician — and could be worth millions of dollars. The “Bouchardon Bust” — which ...

The social dichotomy of the setting reflects Stevenson’s Edinburgh: the smart quarters where Dr. Jekyll lives are like Edinburgh’s 18th-century New Town, with its classical façades and ...

An 18th-century marble bust that survived a castle fire only to spent more than a decade propping open the door of a storage shed, may soon bring millions of dollars to a Scottish town.

Macsween, a popular maker of the distinctive Scottish dish, ... said he usually sells about 20 pounds of haggis around Jan. 25, the birthday of the 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns.