Stories, songs and starlings
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Margaret Fay Shaw’s friend Pèigi Macrae of South Uist.
Love of Country – cruise in summer 2021
After the very popular 2020 cruise sold out, Noble Caledonia are delighted to offer a 2021 cruise around the Northern and Western Isles that’s been exclusively designed to support the National Trust for Scotland.
Top Scots musician releases music videos to celebrate Solas film
Piper James Duncan Mackenzie composed the Solas soundtrack, celebrating the life of Margaret Fay Shaw.
Mindfulness matters
We’re hosting a number of mindfulness events at our places over autumn 2019.
Surf and turf: uniting our actions on land with saving our seas
Early in 2020, our marine policy is published as the Year of Coasts & Waters gets underway.
To a Mouse
One of his best-known earlier poems, Robert Burns wrote this in 1785 whilst working as a farmer (it’s been said he literally wrote it in the field). It appeared the following year in ‘Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect’.
Coronavirus emergency: all events suspended and most properties closed
Following the latest developments on the coronavirus emergency, we’ve taken the difficult decision to keep the vast majority of our properties closed.
A Helensburgh spring – Margaret Fay Shaw’s diary of 1920/21
An American student in Scotland – Margaret Fay Shaw’s reflections on a year at school in Helensburgh in the 1920s: Part 1
Rare Gaelic songs to mark the Culloden commemoration
Listen to rare snippets of haunting Gaelic songs inspired by the Jacobite cause, as we prepare to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden on Thursday 16 April.
An island odyssey
In these challenging times when we are unable to visit the very special places that are in the care of the Trust, one of our Trustees recalls a uniquely memorable five days in June 2018.
St Kilda – the last summer
Folklorist Margaret Fay Shaw’s description and images of her visit to St Kilda, just before the evacuation of its inhabitants in 1930.
Looking after Scotland under lockdown
Our properties may not have been open to visitors, but the National Trust for Scotland’s vital work has continued through the coronavirus crisis.
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