Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend by Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson’s ‘Heather Ale’ is the ballad of a mysterious beer that was brewed by the Picts who inhabited Scotland during the late Iron Age and Early Medieval period. In Robertson’s poem,…
The incredible life of the infamous Jack Sheppard
Jack Sheppard, born 1702, was one of England’s most infamous criminals. Although he committed crimes of thievery and burglary, Sheppard is most well-known for capturing the imagination of Londoners through his four audacious escapes from prison before his final arrest…
