Scotland’s history goes on display

THE most famous document in Scotland’s history will go on public display next spring for the first time in 15 years.

The 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, in which Scotland’s landowners vowed never to submit to English rule “as long as but 100 of us remain alive”, will be on show at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh from March 27 to April 26.

The declaration, thought to have been written at Arbroath Abbey, was a plea to the Pope to recognise the kingship of Robert the Bruce. It is seldom seen in public because it is so fragile.