This week, we’re going all the way back to Roman times – an an episode first released in 2023 – to find out about the Antonine wall and why Scotland was ‘Rome’s Afghanistan’.
What led to the speedy evacuation of the Antonine wall, which was once garrisoned by thousands of Roman soldiers? What was Rome’s relationship with the lands beyond the wall really like? And just how did a small, stubborn nation see of a continental superpower?
To find out, Jackie visited the nation-spanning wall herself and then met Dr John Reid, author of The Eagle and the Bear: A New History of Roman Scotland, to get a deeper insight into this fractious period of history and its long-lasting legacy.
Next week, as the Oscars get under way in LA, we revisit Scotland’s relationship with the silver screen.
New episodes of Love Scotland will return later in 2024.
Time travelling through Gladstone's Land
Our CEO reflects on 90 years of the National Trust for Scotland
Seabird city: the colonies at St Abb's Head and Staffa
Safeguarding the Scotland we love with Stuart Brooks
Ana Sanchez on the extraordinary life of Miss Agnes Toward
The story of the Glencoe Massacre
Is Robert Burns and his poetry more popular now than ever?
On location - the Trust on the big and small screen with Anna Rathband
Total Wipeout: Tackling invasive plants with Rob Dewar
Caring for Scotland's footpaths with Helen Cole
Facing our past with Jennifer Melville
90 years since the evacuation of St Kilda with Susan Bain
1745: Raising the Jacobite Standard at Glenfinnan - Professor Murray Pittock
Scotland's wild spaces with Mark Beaumont
Protecting Culloden Battlefield - Raoul Curtis-Machin
Caring for Scotland's environment with Jeff Waddell
Meet Derek Alexander - Scotland's Indiana Jones
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