Scotland's History Early Scotland Columba founds a monastery on Iona The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

The island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, is the symbolic centre of Scottish Christianity. Through 1400 years of history its fortunes have fluctuated, from its heights as one of the ...

For the next two centuries Iona was to be one of the most famous centres of Christian learning in the Celtic world. Video: A history of Scotland: The Last of the Free.