Culture
Photographic exhibition will be all At Sea
A Scots photographer’s portrait of working men and women from north-east Scotland’s fishing communities have been unveiled at a new exhibition. Photographic portraits by London-based Paul Duke of working men and women are now on show at the Aberdeen Maritime Museum. From his series, At Sea, these magnificent images document a time of sharp decline…
Read MoreScots schoolboy’s poem read at Buckingham Palace
A schoolboy from the Isle of Harris read a poem to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War I. Hamish Scott (15), was one of 100 young people taken to London by Never Such Innocence, the charity set up to give children a voice in the commemorations of the centenary of the First…
Read MoreRemembering the fallen on Scotland’s beaches
Tributes to the fallen in war were made all over Scotland yesterday, with six special commemorations on the nation’s beaches. Film director Danny Boyle’s special Armistice commission, Pages of the Sea, for 14-18 NOW and National Theatre of Scotland, took place at St Ninian’s Isle beach in Shetland, West Sands in St Andrews, Scapa beach…
Read MoreUnique war poster collection a part of remembrance
A selection of unique original First World War posters from Scotland is playing a part in an act of national commemoration. They will feature in a projection of the names of all those who died serving on behalf of Scotland in WWI onto the Scottish Parliament building on Remembrance Sunday. The recruitment posters are part…
Read MorePapers of exiled Stuart kings published online
A major new digitisation programme is giving unparalleled insight into the social, military and personal worlds of the exiled Stuart dynasty and their Jacobite followers. It relates to the Stuarts’ fight to regain the thrones of Scotland, England and Ireland between the late 17th and early 19th centuries. The Stuart and Cumberland Papers project has…
Read MoreThe love story that produced beautiful Paxton House
Unusually for Scotland, Paxton House, situated on the banks of the meandering River Tweed in Berwickshire, has its origins in a love story. It began when Patrick Home met and fell in love with Prussian heiress Sophie de Brandt whilst at Leipzig University in 1750, and continued when, being affable and charming, he eased his…
Read MoreThe Flying Scotsman keeps coming back – time and again
Think of the golden age of steam, and the chances are you will think of The Flying Scotsman, the world’s most iconic steamtrain. The Flying Scotsman which has endured a rollercoaster ride from spotlight to sidelines and back again, yet it still remains one of the most iconic images of Britain’s railway. Designed by eminent…
Read MoreRoman sculpture found in a Scottish river
Recovered in 1997 from the mouth of the River Almond in Cramond, near Edinburgh, the Cramond Lioness is a sculpture dating back to Roman times. It portrays a male prisoner being killed by a lioness. It was Robert Graham, a local ferryman, who uncovered the sculpture from the mud of the river. It remains unknown…
Read MoreTen fascinating facts about the Clan MacMillan
Scottish clans have fascinating histories, dating back hundreds and hundreds of years. Here, we reveal ten important facts every aspiring member of Clan MacMillan should know. 1. The chiefs of Clan MacMillan descended from an ancient royal house as well as from orders of the ancient church. On the island of Iona, King Alexander I…
Read MoreThe story of the Scots storytellers – the Shennachies
The likes of CSI and Silent Witness playing out on small screens across the country may portray an unashamedly 21st-century take on telling a tale of what has gone before, but it would be wrong to think age-old tradition and custom no longer have a voice in an increasingly digital society. Historically, a Scottish clan…
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