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An eggs-cellent use of our Easter egg mountain
When the coronavirus pandemic cancelled our Easter egg hunts, we needed to find homes for 38,000 chocolate treats.
A guide to exploring Glasgow tenements
How many of these features can you find in your tenement flat?
Through the eyes of: a diver, photographer and volunteer
There’s not much that Jack Laws doesn’t know about St Abb’s Head, above and below the waves.
From quiet homes and first beginnings
Archivist Fiona Mackenzie describes her first five years on the Isle of Canna.
Preston Mill goes for a whirl
Vital lockdown work at Preston Mill keeps Scotland’s heritage alive.
Delving into the archives at J M Barrie’s Birthplace
Here we highlight some of our archive collection relating to J M Barrie, creator of Peter Pan.
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.
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.
Margaret Fay Shaw’s diary of 1920/21
An American student in Scotland: Part 2 of Margaret Fay Shaw’s reflections on a year at school in Helensburgh in the 1920s.