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James Taylor - “The Father of the Ceylon Tea Industry”
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Over the weekend of the 22nd to the 24th of August, Scotland's Tea Festival will be hosting a series of events in Laurencekirk and Auchenblae in Aberdeenshire celebrating tea and Scotland's contributi...
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Dunollie Castle Spiders To Be Given Protection
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Spiders at Dunollie Castle in Argyll & Bute, have been granted special protection from the workers during the castle’s £1.3 million restoration. European cave spiders, also known as Meta menardi, n...
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Edinburgh and Glasgow's Rivarly Began Over Bread
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It has been recently suggested that the centuries-long rivalry between Scotland's capital and Scotland's largest city all started over bread. It seems to have begun in 1656 when the Glasgow town coun...
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Clan Murray Chief, John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, di...
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John Murray, the Chief of the Murray clans and 11th Duke of Atholl has died in a South African hospital on Tuesday, 15th May after suffering a stroke. He was 83. The Johannesburg born Murray became ...
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Hill and Adamson
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Buried in the beautiful Victorian Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh is David Octavius Hill, a painter who, along with Robert Adamson, pioneered in Scottish and aesthetic photography. They founded the Hill ...