The Scots Magazine

As ever, the April issue of your favourite read is packed with fantastic content.

The latest edition’s release coincided with the 275th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden. For most of us, it’s just a date in history – something we learned pretty much by rote in school. Like the Battle of Hastings 1066, or Bannockburn 1314.

For The Scots Magazine, Culloden 1746 is different. Founded seven years before the fateful battle, the magazine carried reports of events as they unfolded.

In that April edition 275 years ago, The Scots Magazine published letters from those who fought and witnessed the carnage of a battle that changed not just the course of Scotland’s history, but altered our culture forever.

Reading the material in our archives is humbling. It turns a dry date in a textbook into something real – something tangible and visceral. Real people, real lives.

You can read some of what they wrote in our special section commemorating the terrible events of that day – don’t miss it.