Wallace was the younger son of a Scottish knight and minor landowner. His name, Wallace or le Waleis, means the Welshman, and he was probably descended from Richard Wallace who had followed the ...

Braveheart, Mel Gibson’s 1995 film about William Wallace, is notoriously riddled with inaccuracies, from the imagined blue ...

Until 1297 the heavily armed and mounted knight had been an invincible force on the battlefield. Stirling Bridge was the first battle in Europe to see a common army of spearmen defeat a feudal host.

The discovery has led to Brian being contacted by the Clan Wallace in the United States to send them a copy of the poem of ...

A letter written for William Wallace in 1300 has been displayed in public for the first time in six years for St Andrew’s Day. More than 250 people turned up to General Register House in ...

Emergency repairs have been carried out on a statue of William Wallace to restore his claymore to its full glory. The 9.4m (31ft) statue of the Scottish freedom fighter near Dryburgh was erected ...

For the High Score? For the world’s longest bogie?! We don’t know much about the early years of William Wallace. There’s a story that he killed the English Sheriff of Lanark. No-one knows ...