Video: Behind the scenes with creatures of the deep
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Sea Creatures: Life Beneath The Ocean exhibit houses 50 cross-section specimens made famous by Damien Hirst and Dr Gunther von Hagens.
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On this day 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie leaves Scotland for good
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For more than five months, a fugitive Prince Charles Edward Stuart hid out in caves, moved around in disguises and wandered through the Highlands by night as he tried to leave Scotland following his decisive defeat at Culloden.
Book review: Lethal White, by JK Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith
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This is, in many ways, a perfectly adequate novel. It was not a chore to read it, even if it was 200 pages longer than it ought to have been. The fourth in the series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his associate Robin Ellacott...
Book review: Conrad Wilson - A Life With Music, by Philip Sawyer
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Conrad Wilson, staff music critic of The Scotsman from 1964 to 1991, died last November at the age of 85. One of his greatest attributes was an extraordinarily accurate memory for facts; he was able to retrieve the most obscure information at the drop of a hat...
Massive tapestry depicting Games of Thrones goes on display in Glasgow
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A huge Game of Thrones embroidery commissioned by the producers of the series has gone on display at a university in Glasgow.
Iconic Edinburgh detective Rebus makes his theatre debut
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Ian Rankin’s most famous character takes centre stage tonight in Birmingham in a play adapted by Rona Munro. Brian Ferguson meets the team behind Long Shadows – including the latest Rebus – ahead of its...
Inquiry starts into Edinburgh Royal High School future
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An architect and historian hit out at a music school’s plans for Edinburgh’s former Royal High School yesterday as a public inquiry into the future of the building got under way.
Edinburgh Hogmanay organisers vow to learn lessons on volunteers
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Organisers of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations have defended the revival of a controversial volunteering scheme – but say lessons will be learned from its introduction last year.
The all-woman riot at a Glasgow asylum for ‘fallen women’
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Dressed in their distinctive uniforms of blue frocks and white aprons, 27 women staged a breakout of the Glasgow Magdalene Institution in Maryhill and scattered through the city streets 60 years ago this week.
Free drams for Edinburgh's Hogmanay revellers under new sponsorship deal
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Health campaigners have hit out over plans to give away tens of thousands of free drams to revellers at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations for the first time.
Book review: Rex Royd, by Frankie Boyle, Mike Dowling and Budi Setiawan
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Controversial may as well be Frankie Boyle’s first name. He has built a career on presenting himself as an iconoclast, shocking at every opportunity. And if that’s your sort of thing, his first foray into...
Art reviews: Mike Kelley | Santiago Sierra | Louise Hopkins
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Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead is both a love letter to his home city of Detroit and a meditation on cities in general
Book review: Breaking News, by Alan Rusbridger
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Breaking News is a fascinating and at times irritating book, succinctly described in its subtitle: “The Remaking Of Journalism And Why It Matters Now.” Alan Rusbridger was editor of the Guardian from 1995 to 2015.
Castles light up in celebration of Gaelic and Scots
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Castles, abbeys and barracks across Scotland have lit up in a celebration of Gaelic and Scots with a new poem beamed across the historic sites.
Kate Williams: How Mary, Queen of Scots was betrayed
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Mary Queen of Scots begged Elizabeth over and over to ‘Be as my sister’, sending the English Queen letter after letter.
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