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Young Walter Scott Prize winners announced

The winners of this year's prestigious prize for young writers of historical fiction, the Young Walter Scott Prize, have been revealed. The award has been...

NYC Tartan Day Parade preview in the Scottish Field podcast

In this week's Scottish Field podcast, we're crossing the Atlantic to find out about the New York City Tartan Day parade, ahead of this weekend's...
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Marchmont readies for first 2022 Open Studios event

The first of two 2022 Open Studios events at Marchmont House will offer the chance to meet artists and makers of all kinds - and...
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New work celebrating the birth and life of Earth

A new exhibition by contemporary artist Katie Paterson that tells the birth and life of our planet in a single object is to go on...
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Royal Scots Club announce first guests of 2022

The Royal Scots Club have announced the first of their Literary Lunches in 2022 will feature Louise Welsh discussing her latest book The Second Cut....

A modern gothic thriller set in Glasgow

A novel that manages to be colourful, gritty, modern, and gothic all within its 368 pages. Twenty years after the events of Welsh’s The Cutting...

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Ardnahoe Distillery: First whisky to come from a new distillery on Islay since 2009 released

It has been six decades since Stewart Laing first learned how to make whisky on Islay. In the 1960s he travelled to the world-famous whisky...
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Kiefer Sutherland: Hollywood star brings new whisky to the UK

Hollywood star Kiefer Sutherland has unveiled his new whisky to the UK, a homage to his Canadian roots and love of the spirit. The whisky,...
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Life With Isle of Harris Distillery: ‘The Hearach is special, it has done so much for the island’

Isle of Harris distiller Thomas Macrae talks to us about his earliest memories of whisky and why The Hearach is so special to islanders. And...
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Lerwick Distillery: Shetland set for its first whisky distillery

The idea began more than a decade ago when friends Martin Watt, Caroline MacIntyre and Calum Miller came up with the idea to open the...
Since its humble beginnings nearly ten years ago, the distillery has generated £50,000 for the local community.

GlenWyvis: World’s first fully community owned distillery offers whisky lovers chance to buy shares

In 2015, former Army Air Corps helicopter pilot John McKenzie decided to bring whisky back to Dingwall after a 90 year absence. His idea was...
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Former Gordon & MacPhail chief Ian Urquhart dies following an illness

Scotch whisky legend Ian Urquhart has died aged 76. The Moray based businessman died peacefully on 15 March after an illness, with his family by...