“Scotland Yard is the first English-speaking force to use fingerprints. It establishes a Fingerprint Bureau at the tail end of the Victorian era in 1901,” says Read. “Fingerprints are complex.

At the start of the Victorian era, most children worked long days to ... In 1872 the Education (Scotland) Act made it the law that all children aged 5 to 13 years old had to go to school.

The First Minister attributed the surging price tag, from £400 million a few years ago, to spiralling inflation.

“Many of us didn’t know or have long forgotten that Scotland was a global leader in stained glass in the Victorian era and we aim to showcase this by featuring a stained-glass maker in the serie ...

With its spectacular wildlife, ancient architecture, fascinating history and vast open skies, Scotland has many treasures ... magical trail that winds along a Victorian walkway up the dramatic ...

Scotland's biggest prison is at risk of "catastrophic failure" while another should be "bulldozed", the Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland has said. Concerns have long been expressed about ...