Living by the Sword
The director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival has hit out at the “humilating” treatment of international writers in the wake of growing problems securing visas for some of them to appear at the event.
Living by the Sword
Veteran Scotsman columnist Albert Morris, who penned a daily dispatch for more than 35 years and has been described as a “Scotsman institution” by former colleagues, has died aged 91.
Living by the Sword
On August 8, 1296, the Stone of Destiny was removed from a now vanished abbey near Scone and taken to Westminster Abbey by Edward I as he sought to finally assert his total authority over Scotland.
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Since the independence referendum of September 2014, a strange silence has fallen over Scotland’s theatre-makers on the subject, almost as if the deep divide revealed by the vote has left them unsure of how to address us, and even of who we are.
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A Bronze Age spearhead found on land due to be turned into football pitches contained high purity gold and was likely buried for safekeeping, research has found.
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To the sound of bubblegum pop from a bygone era, three young women burst onto the stage, excited to be starting a new life together at university in 1980s Manchester.
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Health authorities are warning holidaymakers to be wary of travelling to Mexico after Scots were struck down with a crippling food poisoning bug in a mass sickness outbreak in Mexico.
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Put on your headphones and plunge into the hidden creases and distant corners of the brain – a place where fragmented memories and forgotten voices float quietly through the dark and into the bright white light.
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Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens are set to be completely transformed this Halloween into a magical world of light and fantasy at a brand-new world class outdoor experience from the team behind itison Drive In Movies, and the creative minds from some of the country’s best sound and light events.
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There is no one else quite like the Burryman - a curious folk figure covered head to toe in sticky plant heads with only his eyes and mouth on show.
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Reports of deaths at the north’s hospitals are a major concern for the area’s expectant mothers
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Tennis coach Judy Murray has signed up to take part in the Royal Bank of Scotland Kiltwalk in Edinburgh next month.
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Superstar violinist Nicola Benedetti and best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith have got starring roles in a new film made to bolster a bid to turn one of Edinburgh’s most prominent landmarks into a music school and concert hall.
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A bust of the Viking believed to have been the first European to “discover” America is to be unveiled in Uig, Isle of Lewis, today at the instigation of the Seattle-based society which keeps his memory alive.
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is being marred by the exploitation of workers who are saddled with “precarious” pay and conditions which are putting their physical and mental health at risk, campaigners have claimed.
