Scratch the surface of any holiday tradition and you'll find it's less about timeless ritual and more about historical ...

"The ordinary club sweepstake prize competition for Christmas prizes was concluded yesterday, in boisterous and cold weather, but the turn out of competitors suffered little diminution." Geo.

One explanation comes from churches, where alms boxes were placed to collect donations for the poor during Advent. These ...

Award-winning musician Seán Heely leads an eight-piece ensemble in a festive holiday program blending Scottish, Irish and other Celtic traditions.

It is not possible to describe all the complex, rich and varied global Christmas traditions. One cannot do justice to all the ...

Robert Mone is a notorious Scottish murderer and one of the UK's longest-serving prisoners. He is known for two major violent ...

Scottish soldiers have kept a wartime tradition going as they continued their annual blanket-decorating competition while ...