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In 1901 Glasgow’s tour-de-force architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and his decorative artist wife, Margaret Macdonald, entered a magazine competition to design a “House for an Art Lover”. It was to be “… a grand house, thoroughly modern, fresh and innovative…” Their exquisite vision remained just a design until 1989 when, authentic to the smallest detail, the building and its contents were created.

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is considered the finest poem by the “pioneer of the Scottish Renaissance”.

Hugely popular author of The Crow Road , science fiction and psychological thrillers.

James Watt’s transformation of the steam engine (see Rotative Steam Engine: James Watt (1736–1819)) heralded the advent of the Industrial Revolution, which had a profound effect on Scotland, and Glasgow in particular. The demand for steam forced every coal mine into maximum output, and the production of cotton, linen, steel and machinery boomed. Glasgow became known as “the workshop of the Empire”.

Best-selling cult author of street culture in Scotland. Made his mark in 1993 with Trainspotting .

This publishing phenomenon with global fame lived in Edinburgh when she launched the Harry Potter series.

Born in Kirriemuir, this novelist and dramatist established his reputation with the ever-popular Peter Pan .

The “father of Scottish poetry and history”. His epic poem is The Brus (1370).

Scotland was a Catholic country when Mary Queen of Scots ascended the throne. But in 1559, a revolutionary preacher called John Knox fearlessly denounced Catholicism and heralded the Reformation. Protestantism was introduced to Scotland, and for the next 150 years religious intolerance was rife.