For an academic, hell would be a library an acre wide and 40 feet high, full of books on her area of expertise—but not her book. Yet for that scholar, what discovery, on a back page deep among those ...

IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

The Scottish Borders contain key geological evidence that a wide ocean once separated Scotland from England around 420 million years ago. But this evidence is complex, cryptic and obscured by later ...

Possession over the borderlands between Scotland and England echo in ballads that trove a sound of untouched, forbidden beauty. Cattle raids, battles, betrayals and family loyalties are all ...

It might be the end of the line for the U.K. The Scottish vote on independence is happening tomorrow, with millions going to polls to decide whether their country should secede from the union with ...