Scotland's History Wars of Independence Scotland secures its independence The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

Scotland and England are two nations divided by their experience of history. That divide was never wider than during the Wars of Independence in the 13th and 14th centuries when a chance event ...

Edward II mounted several invasions of Scotland in the years after Bannockburn, but they all ended in defeat. Bruce realised that he would have to secure Scotland's independence through diplomacy.