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13/11/2020
12/11/2020
12/11/2020

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery reopened today after lockdown. A beautiful Arts and Crafts building in Edinburgh, it houses likenesses of remarkable people from Scottish and British history. This is W E Henley, writer and poet, who was a great friend of the author Robert Louis Stevenson, and served as a model for one of his characters, Long John Silver.

01/06/2020

Our guides made it to local Outlander locations to wish all fans or the show a Happy 2020. How many do you recognise?

Happy Tartan Day!
06/04/2020

Happy Tartan Day!

14/03/2020
03/05/2017

The North Coast 500 Route Scotland, circles around Scotland’s top north highlands has always been there, but never received a name, until 2014. Today this amazing itinerary moved in the limelight, and was nicknamed Scotland’s Route 66. Some say Scotland’s North Coast 500 route the most scenic...

31/03/2017

General Patrick Gordon, an Aberdeenshire man who became a close advisor to Tsar Peter of Russia, was born on this day in 1635.

Gordon left home at the age of fifteen and after serving in various European armies, joined the Russian army in 1661. After distinguishing himself in wars against the Turks in southern Russia, he was made Major-General and then Lieutenant-General. Tsar Peter raised Gordon to the rank of General in Chief and the pair were so close that the Tsar was in attendance at Gordon's death bed in 1699.

For more on Scots who made an impact on world history, read History Scotland magazine: scot.sh/hsmaghome

24/03/2017

Robert Louis Stevenson is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers to come out of the flourishing Scottish literary scene. His burst of work during the early 1880s encompassed some of the most timeless prose ever written, with the likes of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr...

19/03/2017

Well, look who's here!!!!

09/03/2017

Their critics told them "to give up eels and turn to God". Yet, from the 1930s, that didn't stop a number of world-renowned scientists embarking on a hunt for Nessie…

17/02/2017

A centuries old map of Scotland shines a light on the distribution of Highland clan territories after the crushing Jacobite defeat at Culloden in 1746.

17/02/2017

The face of a man murdered in the Scottish Highlands around 1,400 years ago has been digitally reconstructed, helping anthropologists and forensic scientis

13/02/2017
11/02/2017

Outlander star Sam Heughan has entered the betting as the potential new star of Doctor Who, after fellow Scot Peter Capaldi announced he was leaving the Tardis.

28/01/2017

This is a Broadside containing an account of the ex*****on of William Burke (of Burke and Hare) in in 1829.

Burke and his colleague William Hare were responsible for sixteen murders, motivated by the money they could earn by selling the bodies on to anatomists at Edinburgh's medical school. Hare saved himself from the gallows by agreeing to give evidence against Burke.

As the report describes, Burke's ex*****on was a popular spectacle in a city angered by the pair's crimes, and at the scaffold many shouted for Hare to be hanged also. The National Library of Scotland holds a number of different broadsides relating to this notorious case.

Learn more about 'the resurrection men' on our website: http://digital.nls.uk/scotlandspages/timeline/1828.html

25/01/2017

Happy Burns Day!

This is the Rabbie Burns statue in Leith a few years back sporting a pair of odd socks in memory of someone who passed away.

Remember that haggis is delicious all year round and not just for the 25th of January!

14/01/2017
13/01/2017

More than 2,500 libraries were built around the world at the turn of the 20th Century thanks to generosity of Scottish philanthropist and industrialist Andrew Carnegie, with many to become grand architectural expressions of the power of learning.

09/01/2017
08/01/2017

ROBERT Louis may be the most famous member of the Stevenson family, but the Treasure Island author’s grandfather was also a renowned and…

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