Explore Bonkle House, the Perchy, and the forgotten landscape of Lanarkshire, where ancient peat bogs, old coal pits, hidden wildlife, and powerful local stories survive just beyond the streets.
Developers are building new housing estates in The Plean, and this creates an important opportunity to honour the people who shaped the village. Generations of teachers, nurses, miners, volunteers, and everyday heroes gave their time, care, and skill to this community. By recognising their names, we can ensure their contribution remains part of The Plean’s future as well as its past.
Damn Rebel Bitches: The Silenced Women of the Jacobite Rising uncovers the real stories of women who hid fugitives, carried messages, and risked imprisonment for the Stuart cause. This powerful textile banner in Perth Museum restores their voices and reveals the courage, loyalty, and suffering history long overlooked.
he River Tay Public Art Trail is one of the best free ways to explore Perth, combining riverside walks, parks, sculpture, poetry and hidden corners of the city. This self-guided route takes around two to four hours, or as long as you want if you enjoy wandering, looking closely and discovering places you might otherwise miss. It is an easy, rewarding way to see Perth through art, landscape and story.
Bigger, better, and more moving than expected. Why the National Museum of Scotland is a place to slow down, explore, and connect with Scotland’s stories.
Rediscovering Angus Og through an Inverness Museum exhibition, this post looks at Ewen Bain’s wit, language and political bite, and why the cartoons still resonate.
A walk through Florence Street in the Gorbals leads into Rush family history, the River Clyde and an unexpected encounter with the work of Norman Gilbert.
Climb 97 spiral steps inside Nelson’s Tower, Forres, and enjoy stunning views over the Moray Coast. This round stone tower, built in 1806 to honour Admiral Nelson, is open seasonally and free to visit.
Quick Facts Our Hunt for Clach na h-Airm: A Hidden Stone in the Forest On a quiet evening in Strathnairn, my brother, Campbell and I set off on what turned out to be our hardest standing stone hunt yet. We’d parked near the Mains of Gask after visiting the nearby stone circle, thinking Clach na …
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Discover St Vigeans Museum near Arbroath, home to 38 elaborate Pictish stones, rare ogham inscriptions, and Scotland’s first ‘Flintstone-style’ carving of the Loch Ness Monster – the mysterious Nessie Stone.