Heritage

Museums, archives and heritage

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.
The exhibition in the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge, tells the personal stories of the…
Sunday 2 November sees the Glorious Half-Mile to Holyrood – the Canongate – come to life with a free…
The Nelson Monument on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill has been colourfully commemorating Trafalgar Day.
Border ballads, fiddle tunes, traditional tales and dances will be hot topics in Hawick at an upcoming…
A moving, new exhibition opening today at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery brings home the tragedy of…
With the Commonwealth Games due to open in Glasgow on Wednesday, 23 July and the Centenary of the start of…
The latest in the National Museum of Scotland's series of hugely popular after-hours Friday evening…
Edinburgh joins Europe in the Festival of Museums with special events throughout the weekend that bring a…
When EdinburghGuide.com started covering the Fringe festival at the beginning of the millennium, John Ritchie…
Scotland’s first complete map and dataset of Scotland's native woodlands was revealed yesterday (Monday).