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  • Gaelic and Scots in the Historic Environment

    28 August 2018, Gaelic, Heritage
  • A photograph of two women looking at a computer. One is holding a pen and pointing at the monitor.

    Making Decisions

    20 August 2018, Heritage
  • The North Coast 2500 BC

    12 June 2018, Archaeology, Heritage
  • George Hering with the New Abbey Corn Mill water wheel

    Five Things You Didn’t Know About…Maintaining a Mill

    10 May 2018, Conservation, Heritage, Industrial Heritage
  • close up of a red rose

    What’s In A Name?

    23 April 2018, Heritage, History
  • A candle, quill and manuscript sit on top of a barrel

    Three Gaelic Bards

    15 March 2018, Gaelic, Heritage
  • three horizontal rows of round pink stickers

    Scotland’s Lesbian History

    16 February 2018, Archives, Heritage, History, LGBT+ History, Women's History
  • two men on stage performing, image by Aly Wight

    Bringing Edinburgh’s LGBT bookshop back to life

    14 February 2018, Heritage, History, LGBT+ History
  • close up of ram with curled horns

    A Hundred Years of Shepherding in Cairndow

    28 January 2018, Heritage, History, Nature & wildlife
  • man in hat holds up book, silhoutted against a blue sky

    Burns Nicht

    23 January 2018, Heritage, History, Stirling Castle
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