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An aerial view of farm fields, divided by hedgerows, pockets of woodland and a couple of roads. Occasional white buildings can be seen in the landscape. A river winds in the distance.
21 May 2021

Threave Landscape Restoration Project: our 100-year vision

Find out more about our plan to restore the woodland-wetland ecosystem and grassland flower meadows, and increase biodiversity at Threave Estate.

21 May 2021

Gladstone’s Land reopens for a taste of the past

Serving up fresh flavours on the Royal Mile

A pile of letterpress-printed cards are arranged over a flat surface. Most cards are bright and colourful, and are facing up. The card on the top of the pile is reverse-side up. It shows the logos of Paper Tiger and Robert Smail's Printing Works, as well as a couple of lines of text describing how the cards are printed.
10 May 2021

New partnership between Smail’s and Paper Tiger

Robert Smail’s, our traditional Borders-based printing press, has been employed to create a brand new range of cards to mark the 40th birthday of a specialist Scottish stationer.

Black and white archival image of the village on Hirta, St Kilda. The large mountain of Conachair is in the background.
29 Apr 2021

The National Trust for Scotland’s St Kilda archives

Archivist Ian Riches gives a flavour of just some of the hundreds of documents and photos we look after relating to St Kilda.

Rays of sunshine beam down upon a moorland area beside a single track road. In the background is an enormous shoulder of a mountain, silhouetted against the blue sky.
28 Apr 2021

Making a difference – our proposals for Scotland 2021–26

Read the National Trust for Scotland’s manifesto for the upcoming elections for the Scottish Parliament.

A view of a large moorland area, with a large stone cairn in the distance. The sky is blue, with white fluffy clouds scudding across.
19 Apr 2021

275th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden – films

A chance to watch the four films created for our online event commemorating the 275th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden.

Long grass sways in the wind on a large empty moor. A line of trees stand in the background with hills in the distance.
16 Apr 2021

Call on politicians to protect battlefields

Our election manifesto includes proposals to better protect battlefields.

A crystal tumbler is a third full of whisky. It is displayed against a black background.
2 Apr 2021

Tell us your whisky stories

We’ve launched a public appeal for stories related to whisky production in the 18th and 19th centuries to help uncover Scotland’s illicit whisky past.

A smiling woman sits on the edge of a large wheelbarrow in a gravelled courtyard area. She wears a hi-vis vest and holds a hammer in her hand. A large sledge hammer rests against her leg.
2 Apr 2021

Here comes the Dun: work starts on major project

Work has begun at House of Dun, near Montrose, on creating a heritage park that will tell the stories of the Angus landscape and its people.