Submitted by Jessie Voigts on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 13:42
Two Scottish acts are preparing for this year’s Upside Doon music festival by playing a surprise gig on the roof of the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum.
Talented singer-songwriter Colin Hunter and acclaimed six-piece Have Mercy Las Ve ...
Submitted by Kerry Dexter on Tue, 05/30/2017 - 09:21
It ran from the mouth of the Clyde, where Glasgow is today, across Scotland to the Firth of Forth where Edinburgh now stands. A wall of turf and rock, at a shade under twelve feet or three and half meters, it was about t ...
Submitted by Kerry Dexter on Sun, 03/12/2017 - 10:54
Ireland and Scotland -- there are just as many connections between the two countries as there are differences. One place those can be explored and enjoyed is through music, both from traditions of the past and work of present day singers, songwriters, and ...
Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/28/2016 - 10:30
Edinburgh is a small city with a lot of museums, including several large, well-known ones, like its National Portrait Gallery, and many small ones that are easy to see in an hour or two, like the Museum on the Mound (where you can see a one-million-pound n ...
Submitted by Jessie Voigts on Mon, 10/17/2016 - 20:20
'Glasgow Boy' Heads to Banff
A painting by highly acclaimed post-impressionist and 'Glasgow Boy' Sir John Lavery has gone on public display in the UK for the first time since the 1940s. The Pergola is now being e ...
Submitted by Jessie Voigts on Mon, 10/03/2016 - 09:45
Scary stories, ghoulish ghost tours and wyrd walks for all ages will make the National Trust for Scotland's atmospheric castles, gardens and woodlands the place to hang out this Halloween.
The conservation c ...
Submitted by Jessie Voigts on Tue, 09/20/2016 - 08:19
Public invited to see 'the Edinburgh that never was' as part of Doors Open Days
Historic Environment Scotland is throwing open the doors of the National Record of Scotland this weekend to reveal the hidden gems of Edinburgh's past. L ...
Submitted by Jessie Voigts on Wed, 07/06/2016 - 09:12
For the first time the forgotten histories of a group of four Scottish islands – known collectively as the Small Isles – have been brought together in a definitive new work.
By exploring the physical evidence that remains, The ...
Submitted by Jessie Voigts on Fri, 06/03/2016 - 09:25
The excavation of a large Roman fort in the 1970s in Bearsden has provided rare insight into how Roman soldiers coped with life in Scotland, nearly 2,000 years ago.
Following years of excavating and scientific analysis, Bearsden: A R ...
Submitted by Jessie Voigts on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 07:29
Edinburgh, May 19 2016 – Context Travel, organizer of critically acclaimed walking tours, unveils its new Quills and Magic Wands: Literary Edinburgh for Families tour in time for its 2016 spring/summer season.
The child-oriented intr ...
Pages
