The Reivers: Raiders of the Borderlands

From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo—Scottish borderlands suffered one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder in modern Europe.

As a consequence of constant conflict, Borderers suffered horribly at the hands of marauding armies who ravaged their land, destroying crops, slaughtering cattle, burning settlements and killing indiscriminately. Forced by extreme circumstances, many took to reiving to ensure their survival. For the best part of 300 y...