Scotland
Emma Walker to succeed Jim Beveridge at Johnnie Walker
Dr Emma Walker will take over the reins as Master Blender of Diageo, as Dr Jim Beveridge OBE retires at the end of the year after more than 40 years. Emma will be one of a small, select group of people, and the first female, to take on the coveted role of Master Blender in…
Read MoreThe Stillman is a novel packed with dark humour
The Stillman is Tom McCulloch’s first novel and the characterisation of protagonist Jim Drever surely draws on the author’s upbringing in the Highlands. We’re in 2010, the worst winter in years, and Jim, stillman at a Highland distillery, has just turned 50. His obsessions are his comfortingly predictable job, and the movies, full of fictional…
Read MoreLes Misérables comes to Glasgow this Christmas
Glasgow’s Theatre Royal is preparing to host Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Les Misérables this Christmas. Running from Tuesday 23 November until Friday 31 December, the Boublil and Schönberg musical Les Misérables visits Glasgow on what will be the first leg of the show’s highly anticipated UK tour. Les Misérables will star Dean Chisnall as…
Read MoreShipyard Gin receives its own launch
A gin that celebrates Inverclyde’s shipbuilding past has been launched in Gourock. Shipyard Gin is the brainchild of Greenock-born Andy Samuel (37), whose grandfather John Samuel worked in the shipyards in the 1930s and 40s as a plater. This was a skilled job that involved laying and riveting plates of steel to form the ship’s…
Read MoreSingers raised their voices as music festival returned
St Andrews Voices Festival celebrated a joyous return, with afive-day programme that welcomed singers from across the country, as well as internationally, to raise their voices together once again. The 2021 edition of Scotland’s singing festival closed on Sunday after a weekend of music highlights, including workshops, choral services and performances from world-class musicians and…
Read MoreNew phone app showcases the highlights of Forres
A new smartphone app that promises to feature everything there is to see and do in the Forres area has been launched by a local social enterprise. Visit Forres has developed the app to complement its website visitforres.scot which was launched earlier this year to focus on tourism and leisure services in the area, such…
Read MoreA gripping mystery full of historical facts
Original Death is the third book in Eliot Pattison’s colonial mystery series – following on from Bone Rattler and Eye Of The Raven. It sees exiled Scottish clan chief Duncan McCallum attempting to solve the murder of an entire village of Native Americans during the pre-revolutionary era. Pattison’s writing incorporates historical fact and is all…
Read MoreTrain of thought inspires new range of whiskies
The railway routes and locomotives that fuelled Scotland’s great proliferation of whisky distilleries in the late 19th century have inspired some new drams. The railway is the subject championed in the latest whisky collection released by award winning independent bottler Cask 88. The Glasgow & South-Western Railway, represented by a 10 year old single malt…
Read MoreAll-female The Tempest will re-open The Tron Theatre
Drama is returning to Glasgow’s Tron Theatre later this month. The last, exclusively Tron Theatre Company production to grace the main auditorium stage was the 2019 pantomime, Cinderfella, and they have announced their re-opening production, The Tempest will run from 29 October–13 November – and will also be one with an all-female cast. Artistic director,…
Read MoreScottish Field’s November 2021 edition is available now
Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November, Scottish Field goes green as we look at the issues affecting Scotland today. We travel all over the country this month as we look at what Scots are doing to battle the danger of climate change across the land, in various forms. Editor…
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