“In Herat a man can’t stretch out his leg without touching a poet’s backside” - Babur It’s 1506, and Babur leaves... more

“To wander from mountain to mountain, hopeless and homeless, has nothing to recommend it” - Babur Before he became the father... more

J.M. Barrie, the fascinating Scottish writer, gave us Peter Pan - the boy who never grows up, and his notorious... more

Robert Louis Stevenson, a sickly boy with a vivid imagination, grew up along Scotland’s rugged coast, where tales of shipwrecks... more

For many years, commemorations of the two World Wars excluded the memorialisation of soldiers from the British Empire. But campaigners... more

After robbing the fleet in a brutal, barbaric fashion, Henry Avery caused a diplomatic incident of global proportions. The Mughals... more

One of the most notable pirates of his day, Henry Avery would go on to make potentially the most lucrative... more

William Kidd, a respectable Scottish privateer during the late 17th century, tasked with hunting down pirates on the orders of... more

Alongside legends like Blackbeard and Calico Jack, William Kidd is one of the most famous pirates to have entered the... more

“At our first salutation he drank damnation to me and my men who styled cowardly puppies saying he would neither... more