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A chance to explore Gaelic heritage and culture

Volunteer-led sessions are part of Historic Environment Scotland’s Gaelic volunteer programme Visitors to the Blackhouse in Arnol, on the Isle of Lewis, run by HES,...
The shocking events of the Peterloo Massacre, which took place in Manchester in 1819, fuelled the anger of the Scots radicals

Scotland’s 19th century rebels with a cause

The Scottish Radicals demanding a better deal in 1820 were brutally suppressed by government forces. But many of their ideals and aims are still part...

50 shades of brown at Dovecot Studios

Dovecot Studios is a contemporary tapestry studio housed in a renovated Victorian swimming pool in the capital. As well as some highly skilled and experienced...

A history of warships built on the River Clyde in photos

Following on from his book on Clydebank Battlecruisers, Ian Johnston has written another using archive photographs showing the ships built by John Brown, a name...
Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore

The debt to pleasure of the Merry Widow

The late Queen Mother’s great-great-great-grandmother, the fabulously wealthy Mary Eleanor Bowes, endured kidnapping, notoriety and lashings of scandal in a life that was lived to...
Mary Queen of Scots

Crime and punishment – 10 infamous Scots trials

Some of Scotland’s most infamous criminals have fallen foul of the law and ended up in the dock in ten of the country’s most remarkable...


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