The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

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History has it; the meaning of the ... The divide is important in Scotland as one can identify people's religion by what colour tartan is worn. Ultimately the tartan kilt is a universal symbol ...

Sources from the time say this technique was common in Scottish religious institutions ... over its long history. At one time used as the private service-book of the illegitimate son of a high ...

In their bitter power struggle over Scotland the issue of Scotland's faith became not merely a question of religious denomination but one of international power politics. The "Rough Wooing", as it ...