Facing Our Past at Fyvie Castle
As part of our Facing Our Past project, we take a look at the Forbes-Leith family and their American connections.
Facing Our Past at Malleny Garden
As part of our Facing Our Past project, we take a look at the Scotts of Malleny and their connections to the West Indies.
Facing Our Past: Leith Hall’s Tale of Two Duels
As part of a blog series for our Facing Our Past project, we take a look at the Leith family and their links to the Caribbean island of St Vincent.
Facing Our Past: the difficult history of mahogany
As part of a blog series for our Facing Our Past project, we take a look at the links between transatlantic slavery, Caribbean deforestation and British cabinet making.
Facing Our Past
For many years, the Trust has uncovered and shared the stories of the people behind our properties. Researching this is important work for us to undertake, in order to better look after, understand and explain the heritage in our care.
Africans at the court of James IV
It’s Black History Month and, as we launch the Facing Our Past project, we take a look at some of the properties in our care that have links to the transatlantic slave trade.
Colonial power and profit at Leith Hall
As part of our Facing Our Past project, we take a look at the Leith-Hay and Leith families of Leith Hall, and their links to the West Indies.
High Water at Glasgow Bridge
In conjunction with our Facing Our Past project, a unique clock at Pollok House provides a clue to the 18th-century commercial interests of the Maxwell family.
An eventful honeymoon: Lord and Lady Aberdeen of Haddo House
As part of our Facing Our Past project, we take a look at Lord and Lady Aberdeen and their links to Egypt.
Maud Sulter exhibition at Pollok House
We are proud to present a new exhibition of the work of internationally renowned Glaswegian-Ghanaian artist Maud Sulter (1960–2008) at Pollok House in Glasgow.
Pollok House seeks a storyteller to explore links with enslavement
The team at Pollok House are currently inviting applications from creative practitioners for a six-week residency which will take place in autumn 2022.
Changing history
We’re embarking on a new project that will explore the role that the slave trade played in the histories of Scotland and some of the Trust’s most-loved properties.
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