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From rags to riches with Lady Emma’s lovely rugs

Lady Emma Tennant is reviving the traditional art of making rag rugs. Emma is best known as a painter who creates beautiful watercolours of flowers,...

The tragic story of a Scots soldier – in his own words

So many Scottish families have their own stories from World Wars I and II.  This is the biography of Charles Grant Tennant, a pacifist who...
Sandy MaCall Smith, Edinburgh.

Alexander McCall Smith is Mr Brightside

Alexander McCall Smith, whose books are a prescription for happiness, talks about his responsibility to his readers and the female influences in his life. His...
Smeaton's Bridge in Perth

When mother nature gave Scotland a battering

When the weather turns, Scotland takes a real battering from the elements. Scottish Field looks at 10 of the worst - and strangest - incidents...

Burke and Hare – the notorious murderers

Burke and Hare were Scotland’s most notorious murderers, but their crimes fed the demand for corpses at Edinburgh’s medical schools. At just after eight o’clock...

Detective solving a murder crime back in time

Seventeenth-century detective duo MacKenzie and Scougall are asked by a Highland clan to solve a case, after a young lawyer’s body is found near Edinburgh....