The historic Steamship Sir Walter Scott will take to the water this weekend for its 125th anniversary season. The famous old Steamship is one of Scotland’s most famous maritime heritage icons ...

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a novelist, historian, poet and playwright. The prize is managed by the Abbotsford Trust with support from the Hawthornden Foundation, the Buccleuch Living ...

Marmion : a tale of flodden field / by Sir Walter Scott, Bart ; with all his introductions and the editor's notes ; llustrated by eighty engravings on wood from drawings by Birket Foster and John ...

When I started writing Rebecca of Ivanhoe, I had no idea where Sir Walter Scott got the inspiration for the character of Rebecca, the beautiful and spirited Jewish healer who is rescued from a ...

They may not be royal, but descendants of many of the world's most powerful families live as if they were kings and queens. From the Kennedys, Vanderbilts and Astors to the Gettys, Trudeaus and ...

Rokeby Park, off the A66, was where the Rokeby Venus painting ... where it was admired by his guests like Sir Walter Scott, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Humphrey Davy. It was painted in about 1658 by ...

THE ROKEBY VENUS has perhaps the most famous ... where it was admired by his guests like Sir Walter Scott, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Humphrey Davy. It was painted in about 1658 by Diego ...

Sir Walter Scott’s original manuscript for his narrative poem, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, is to be displayed for the first time at Abbotsford, his home near Melrose. It is the only surviving ...

Photography Credit: Mary Evans Library - stock.adobe.com Sir Walter Scott became an instant best seller with historical narrative poems like The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), followed by The Lady ...

A desk seal that was once owned by iconic Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott has been auctioned off for nearly £14,000. The rare object, from Abbotsford House in the Scottish Borders, was sold ...