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Haddo Arts Festival 2019 all set to be revealed

The curtain will rise on the 2019 Haddo Arts Festival next week. Beginning on Tuesday, August 27, it will be marked with a performance of...
Robert the Bruce

How Robert the Bruce gave the English a bruising

Rather than overcoming a far larger English force, a controversial theory says Robert the Bruce fought far from the accepted battlefield and won by a...

RNLI hero Bill Deans MBE gives us his Credo

Bill Deans MBE has worked for the RNLI for over 44 years. In that time he has most certainly seen it all - from beached...

A history of the Borders – delivered on foot

In compelling study Walking The Border, Ian Crofton documents his trek along the Anglo-Scottish Border, on foot or by train, digging deep into historical archives...
‘The Dozens’ were humiliating auctions of useless slaves which were thought to have spawned rap battles

16th century Scots ‘rappers’ had verbal jousts at the flyte club

What do hip-hop music and sixteenth century Scotland have in common? Not much, you’d assume. But hip-hop – which developed in the The Bronx, New...

Light fantastic celebrates Scotland’s unspoiled beauty

A testimony to Scotland’s impressive array of unspoiled places of beauty is showcased in Scotland's Still Light. Andy Hall’s well accomplished photography is coupled with...


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