History Scotland Magazine Dramatic Moments in Scottish History Special Issue

Scotland’s past is full of dramatic events that changed the course of history.

This special souvenir booklet features 20 expert guides to some of Scottish history’s most dramatic events, including:

Scotland’s colony of Nova Scotia
The storming of Dundee, 1651
The George Square riot, 1919
Famine in the 1690s
The Gowrie conspiracy
The Marian civil war
The murder of Cardinal Beaton
The ‘killing time’
Written by History Scotland’s consultant editor Dr Allan Kennedy, and originally published in the pages of History Scotland magazine, our guides take us from Agricola’s Caledonian campaign, through the turbulent times of the 1690s famine, and on to the early 20th-century unrest in Glasgow’s George Square.

Take a trip with us into Scotland’s fascinating past and discover the people and places that shaped our history.