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Month: June 2019

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  • A mobile phone activates augmented reality features from a map of Edinburgh's old and new towns

    Edinburgh’s Portal to the Past

    28 June 2019, Digital, Heritage, World Heritage, Year of Young People
  • photo of a gathering of people. At the front there are two rows of children standing behind a blackboard with Arabic script and the date 3/9/1961 written on it. Everyone looks like they are wearing their best clothes.

    Meet the GlaswegAsians: Glasgow’s South Asian heritage

    21 June 2019, South Asian Heritage
  • Around half a dozen men dressed as Covenanters (wearing tweed and blue flat caps). They brandish pikes at the camera.

    Covenanters Besieged

    19 June 2019, Events, History
  • figure on right photographs a small white cottage set in a green landscape with sea behind it

    Five Thatched Buildings You Need To Know

    17 June 2019, Heritage, History
  • A HES employee cycling through Holyrood Park on a pool bike.

    Pedal your way through history

    12 June 2019, Climate Change, Visitors
  • The interior of the Borders Distillery, Hawick. Copper whisky stills sit beneath a large glass ceiling.

    Celebrating Rescue and Regeneration at the RIAS Awards

    07 June 2019, Climate Change, Conservation, Funding
  • In an great hall in a castle, 7 people dressed in purple sweatshirts stand behind cut out letters spelling VOLUNTEERS. They are flanked by two people in historic costume - a renaissance woman and a redcoat

    Meet our volunteers

    05 June 2019, Visitors
  • evening view of the Edinburgh skyline featuring the minaret of Edinburgh Central Mosque and Arthur's Seat

    Celebrating Ramadan in Scotland

    04 June 2019, South Asian Heritage

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