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When the native Celtic tribes of north-west Hibernia, the Scots, began migrating to what is now the West Coast of Scotland to form their Kingdom of Dalriada in the 5th Century, they called Britain 'Alba'.

From across the North Sea, the savage Germanic invaders formed small Kingdoms in the Southern part of Britain. Over the centuries, these Kingdoms united to form the powerful and aggressive Kingdom of England. However much they tried, the numerically superior Anglo-Saxon people never conquered the Northern Celtic third of the Island, which, to the Celtic people of the North, always remained 'Alba'.

To this day, in the native Gaelic language of the Scots, 'Alba' is the name of their homeland.

Size of map 420mm x 594mm