Born into a political and religious maelstrom and the King of Scotland by the age of one, James VI found comfort in many ...

A communion cup belonging to Mary Queen of Scots has "returned home". The cup, known as the Luck of Workington, had been ...

Genius doesn't always tally with equal opportunities, to paraphrase Doris Lessing. Opera houses have a duty to put on new ...

Thea Musgrave’s rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots makes its London and English National Opera (ENO) premiere in February ...

An ancient tree linked to Mary, Queen of Scots, which has been described as “one of the most important trees in Scotland”, ...

The 96-year-old composer received a heartfelt standing ovation for her traditional yet bracingly modern 1977 work – and ...

It has been called the key to opening Scotland’s past – a vast repository of more than three million records, images and ...

Mary’s troubled reign was certainly full of incident. Following the death of her husband Francis II of France in 1560, she made her way back to Scotland, where she had become queen in 1542 when just ...

With the 96-year-old US-resident composer in attendance, the opening of Thea Musgrave’ s Mary, Queen of Scots was an event of ...

And so to the final new production of English National Opera’s season; Mary, Queen of Scots, directed by Stewart Laing and ...