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The front cover of a booklet entitled Landscape and Place for Success. It features a large portrait photograph of the Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh, taken from above. The city of Edinburgh can be seen in the distance.
29 Sept 2020

Scotland’s Landscape Alliance launches ‘Landscape and Place for Success’

A new plan has been published, highlighting Scotland’s Landscape Alliance’s vision and some recommendations for change. Find out more about the Trust’s role in this important forum.

A boy is bent over looking back through his legs at a tree with no leaves on. There is a stone building behind and the sky is completely blue with no clouds.
29 Sept 2020

Can you estimate the height of a tree?

We’ve taken inspiration from some of our amazing places to create fun outdoor projects for families to try at home.

A mounted ink drawing of a boxing match, mostly in sepia colours. It shows a large crowd surrounding a fenced boxing ring outdoors, with hills in the background. The boxer to the left is punching the boxer on the right in the face, and he is shown falling.
28 Sept 2020

A tale of two champions: the Cribb and Molineaux boxing drawings at Brodick

On this day, 109 years ago, Cribb and Molineaux took to the ring for the second time to find the ultimate winner of Georgian Britain’s greatest boxing battle.

Black and white illustration showing a narrow 7 storey tenement building in the 19th century.
25 Sept 2020

Sex and scandal at Gladstone’s Land

Behind the historical facade of Gladstone’s Land lies a scandalous past.

A large group of actors, many on horseback, stand on a ridge with a mountain backdrop. White clouds scatter across a blue sky.
25 Sept 2020

Spectacular filming locations in Scotland

Why shoot in Scotland? Here’s a long list of reasons, featuring incredible filming locations with big-screen pedigree and easy access to location services.

A woman holds a mobile phone up to her face, watching a video.
25 Sept 2020

Craigievar Castle gets its own Instagram AR filter

One of the country’s smallest castles becomes Scotland’s biggest ever augmented reality Instagram filter.

A painted scene with a rugged hillside in the foreground, rising higher on the right, dotted with trees and ochre coloured Italian houses that are lit by the sun. A dusty brown road winds from right to left. Men and women dressed in peasant clothes walk along the road. The hillside gives way in the middle ground to a curved bay filled with blue water and edged on the left hand side by the impression of streets full of light brown houses. In the background is a scene of two, grey, peaked mountains. The one on the right has smoke coming from the top, seen against a light blue sky.
25 Sept 2020

From the sublime to the ridiculous?

To celebrate World Tourism Day on Sunday 27 September, we voyage around the world through items in our collection, looking back across 300 years of travel and tourism.

A winding path through some sparse woodland.
24 Sept 2020

Discover our Hidden History Trails

Come and explore Scotland’s secret past!

Colourful antimacassars on the back of a high-backed couch.
23 Sept 2020

The Hill House: antimacassars

If you already know what an antimacassar is, give yourself a gold star! Find out more about these beautiful and ornate items designed by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.

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