Heritage
Museums, archives and heritage
The Edinburgh International Book Festival started with a bang!
It's fair to say that geologist James Hutton (1726-1797) was a rock star of the Edinburgh Enlightenment.
Edinburgh’s floral clock is up and running, just in time for festival season, including this weekend's…
The flagship Opening Event of the Edinburgh International Festival from Tony-award winning 59 Productions -…
The ‘traditional arts’ are often referred to as ‘The Voice of the People’, but what do we mean by ‘the people…
A life’s work that had gone largely unnoticed. Now, 100 years on, it is inspiring audiences across Scotland.
A unique opportunity to see two landmark works of British social realism side by side on the big screen,…
Celebrated annually on Robert Burns’ birthday, 25 January, Burns Night gathers Scots around the world to pay…
A traditional evening with a twist! Comas is fundraising yet again, this time whilst celebrating our glorious…
This week marks the 5th RLSDay organised by Edinburgh City of Literature, so in celebration it's a week long…
Launched in 2011, "Previously" is a volunteer-driven local history festival. In 2015, the programme runs over…
The official 3-day festival over Edinburgh's Hogmanay includes a creative, culture crawl through Edinburgh's…
Today a piece of Edinburgh's local landscape was transformed with the demolition of the two 500-foot towers…
Captain Eric Brown CBE – often referred to as Britain’s greatest ever pilot - was yesterday reunited with the…
After almost half a century of standing proud on the East Lothian coast, the twin chimneys of the Cockenzie…
At 8.45am on Sunday 6th September, 2015, an historic occasion took place with the return of a passenger train…
If you receive a letter from the UK through the post, check the postmark. Starting today and until the end of…
‘Seas’ the day at the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Traditional Boat Festival 2015 in Portsoy,…
Seven years after its original inception, Donald Smith’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic…
Britain votes for a new government today - at least, those who haven't already voted in advance by post.