Outdoor Scotland
Q-Aye! – Original And Best
Put yourself to the test with our list of essential weird and wonderful Scottish facts. How many do you know? 1. Actress Reese Witherspoon’s ancestor John D Witherspoon […]
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Outdoor Scotland
Q-Aye 2 – More Scottish Facts!
Gayle’s back with another round of essential weird and wonderful Scottish facts. Put yourself to the test – how many do you know? Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson used false teeth and […]
Culture
Q-Aye 3! – The Weird and Wonderful
The third round of our essential weird and wonderful Scottish facts – part 1 In Vancouver, Canada, they celebrate Chinese Burns Night! Burns Night and the Chinese New Year […]
Culture
Opera Highlights
Equipped with a piano, a suitcase full of music and a sense of adventure, the Scottish Opera team is ready for a journey of operatic proportions… Last year Scottish […]
Culture
Back On The Road!
Original cast member William Morgan is glad to be back on a second tour of Opera Highlights This is the first time Scottish Opera have ever “revived” an Opera Highlights […]
Culture
Q-Aye – Valentine Edition
Romantic (and some… not quite so romantic) Scottish Facts for St Valentine’s Day A small wooden box bearing the message, ‘Corpus Valentini Martyris’ or ‘Body of St Valentine’ has […]
Culture
Q-Aye 3! – More Scottish Facts
The third round of our essential weird and wonderful Scottish facts – part 2 Edinburgh has more statues of animals than it does of women. Statues of bears, dogs, […]
Heritage
Burns, Set In Stone
Memorials to the Bard exist all around the world MANY years ago I met with members of the Atlanta St Andrews Society in Georgia, USA. They told me how, […]
Burns
An Homage To Burns
In 1796 Scotland mourned the death of Robert Burns, and so too did The Scots Magazine, dedicating six pages to his obituary. Here is its final message… Upon the whole, we […]
Burns
1786 Burns Poetry Review
For Burns Night we’ve dug deep into our archives to find our first printed review of the poetry of Robert Burns, published in The Scots Magazine way back in December 1786… Surprising effects […]
