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Douglas Stuart. Credit: Martyn Pickersgill

Alan Cumming reveals line up for Winter Words Festival – including Douglas Stuart and Andrew O’Hagan

Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s new Artistic Director Alan Cumming has revealed his line up for the Winter Words Festival. Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart, crime writer...
Praying hands of Mary

Scotland Through A Lens: John Cuthbert’s winter wonders

John Cuthbert’s lifelong passion for photography may have begun as a child, but he still finds himself captivated by Scotland’s vast beauty.   My photographic...
Victoria Crowe, King Charles III, born 1948 (as HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay), 2018. © King Charles III.

His Majesty, King Charles III announced as Royal Patron for National Galleries of Scotland

The National Galleries of Scotland has been awarded the Royal Patronage of His Majesty, King Charles III.  The news comes following a review of all...
Credit Martin Shields

Historic painting of poet Robert Fergusson inspired Burns discovered at Scottish castle

A portrait of Robert Fergusson has been discovered at a Scottish castle and could help shed new light on the celebrated 18th-century poet who inspired...
JATATD - Donny Osmond as Pharaoh and Company 2 (c) Tristram Kenton

Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

 Fiona Tenneb heads to Edinburgh Playhouse to see Donny Osmond in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.   Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at...
Burns and Freemasonry scholar Patrick Jamieson is
photographed at the museum in
The Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted
Masons of Scotland
in Edinburgh
which has a bust of Robert Burns.

Robert Burns links to freemasonry explored in new project

The University of Glasgow's Centre for Robert Burns Studies has appointed a dedicated scholar for a groundbreaking project examining the poet’s links to Freemasonry. The...


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