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Taking a look round a grave matter in Edinburgh

Across the centuries, countless notable (and less so) Scottish figures have been laid to rest in the capital. Golledge, a local historian, explores the individual...
The Bacchae staged at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Photo: Robert McFadzean / RCS)

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland named in world top three

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) is one of the world’s top three destinations to study the performing arts, according to prestigious global rankings released...

Hybrid digital poetry festival goes live on Saturday

StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival is set to go live with its online celebration of poetry in all its forms this weekend. The annual event...

The Wigtown Poetry Prize is launched for 2021

The Wigtown Poetry Prize, an annual celebration of poets and poems in the country’s three indigenous languages, has had its first ever digital launch. The...

Three women linked through time by prejudice

Anchored by the presence of the iconic Bass Rock, this novel by Evie Wyld is a catalogue of brutal male dominance, following the lives of...

The man behind ‘think global, act local’ in focus

Author Patrick Stephen is incredibly well versed on the life of Patrick Geddes, the biologist, sociologist and town planner behind the ‘think global, act local’...


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