Capturing the view from Sumburgh Head Lighthouse. From left: A home in Bigton, in Scotland’s Shetland Islands; Lerwick, the archipelago’s main town. That transnational history is also visible in other ...

Kate Middleton captured Prince William’s heart in Scotland. Now two of Scotland’s cutest ponies are well on their way to capturing ours. The “Visit Scotland” tourism campaign recently released these ...

The festival of the intricately crafted textiles of the Shetland Islands, a remote archipelago off Scotland’s coast, draws hundreds of knitters from around the world for all things wool. The sheep are ...

There are so many things to love about the Shetland Sheepdog that we have a feeling they’ll be at the top of your wish list by the time you finish reading this — if you don’t already have one, of ...

The heath at Hermaness looked wild, but it was mostly cleared by the cropping of sheep. As across the Scottish Highlands and Islands, Shetland’s landowners expelled crofters in the late 19th century ...