A small-ship cruise takes in the UK’s most northerly islands, which are closer to Norway’s Bergen than they are to Scotland’s ...

Nigel Thompson sails from Iceland to Denmark via the Orkney Islands and the Scottish Highlands, spotting wildlife, ...

We shape our buildings,” said Winston Churchill in 1943, “and afterwards our buildings shape us.” Churchill was speaking ...

The oldest buildings in the world have existed for thousands of years and some are still in use. Their remains are used to ...

Baalbek, a UNESCO World Heritage site, boasts three Roman temples dedicated to Venus, Bacchus, and Jupiter, a hexagonal ...

The Latin tag abi tu, et fac similiter—go, thou, and do likewise—was widely encountered in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is ...

The public are being urged to contribute their views to the design of the new Brae High School. Consultations will be held by Ryder Architecture, with an online option also available for those unable ...

The mystery of Stonehenge has deepened once again as researchers discover that the altar stone did not come from Orkney as ...

For example, to prepare for our visit to Orkney's Skara Brae, the "Scottish Pompeii" and best-preserved Neolithic settlement in Western Europe, lecturer Steve Ragnall shared a showstopping illustrated ...

An icon of a desk calendar. An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. An icon of a paper envelope. An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. An icon ...

The UK's first commercial drone mail service, in Orkney, is to be extended to 2026, it has been announced. The Orkney I-Port operation was launched by Royal Mail and drone firm Skyports in August ...

Once a place where the fossil fuel Klondike brought pioneering energy change generations ago, now Orkney pushes the green energy revolution. When you enter the small housing estate where Jonathan ...