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An alternative to Glasgow’s Christmas market revealed

Glasgow's Christmas market in George Square has been cancelled for 2021, but an alternative is being promised on the other side of the River Clyde....

The fascinating rise of a Scots statesman

The eventful life and career of Sir John Malcolm, a distinguished combatant, statesman and man of letters who spent most of his life in India,...

‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?’ – we mark the occasion in our podcast

This week's Scottish Field podcast marks an important moment in history. One hundred and fifty years to the day since Henry Morgan Stanley found the...

A fascinating look at the world in 100 moments

You are not alone in wondering how one goes about filtering through a million years to form an articulate narrative. Yet Neil Oliver achieves this...
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Scottish Ballet returns with The Nutcracker

Festive family favourite The Nutcracker is returning this winter for Scottish Ballet’s biggest tour yet. Rescheduled from 2020, The Nutcracker makes its long-awaited return to...
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Nevis Ensemble tours Nevis Water Stories

Nevis Ensemble is to give 60 chamber music concerts in nine of Scotland’s local authorities as the culmination of the orchestra’s Nevis Water Stories projects...

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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...