Architecturally, Oxford’s Balliol College is a Victorian Gothic pile of no great distinction; in vintage its statutes are junior to Merton and University colleges. Yet it sits at the head of Oxford’s ...

The dining hall of one of Britain's most prestigious university colleges has been given a social distance upgrade. The University of Oxford's Balliol College, where Boris Johnson studied, has ...

Edward decided that Balliol should be king at Berwick in November 1292. He was crowned king of Scotland at Scone on the 30 November 1292. He faced several immediate problems: he was an inexperienced ...

The Scotland's History debates ran from October 2008 to March 2011. They were run in conjunction with the TV series A History of Scotland.

Scotland and England are two nations divided by their experience of history. That divide was never wider than during the Wars of Independence in the 13th and 14th centuries when a chance event brought ...

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A feud at Balliol College ended for ever when all five involved died in the first world war. Now the tale is to be told on the London stage It was even more elitist than Oxford’s Bullingdon Club, ...

Christopher Hill was much better at analysing the revolution than he was at fomenting one. By Richard J Evans When I was studying for my A-Level History exams, I sometimes used to pop into Foyle’s ...

The Scotland's History online debates are now closed. We would like to thank everyone who contributed over the two years that they ran and made the debates lively, informative and engaging. Debate: ...