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Not long left to see Grayson Perry exhibition

Time's running out to see the most successful ticketed exhibition ever at Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh - Julie Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story of a Life by...
Mine surveyor Alistair Moore

The forgotten tunnel that crosses the River Forth

With three famous bridges now crossing the Forth of the Forth, a forgotten passage that once connected the Lothians and Fife lies dormant and flooded...

The life and times of the real Katie Morag

Creating the island of Struay and its flame-haired heroine Katie Morag has been a labour of love for Mairi Hedderwick - a nomadic, animal-loving illustrator,...

Intense decisions to be made on a Scots isle

This diary-style account follows a recently widowed artist, Lenka Majewska, and a historian, Ella Collingwood, who have just arrived in the village of Balvaig, on...

When a couple’s lives go their Separate Ways

Inverness-shire-based author Ryan Coull takes us on a long, emotional journey along with Dottie Hawthorn, a popular schoolteacher  whose marriage is on the brink of...
Dr Adrián Maldonado, Glenmorangie Research Fellow, National Museums Scotland and Henrik Zedig ,Länsstyrelsen Västra Götaland, Sweden study a carved stone from the Brough of Birsay on Orkney. (Photo: Neil Hanna)

Swedish scientists laser scan Pictish stones in Scotland

A team of Swedish scientists has been visiting Scotland this week to carry out a pioneering new laser scanning technique on carved stones from Orkney...


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