All Stories
Light & Dark at Haddo House
Last year, designer James Johnson worked with the team at Haddo House to enliven spaces through the use of light and dark.
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.
E A Hornel exhibition: From Camera to Canvas
This autumn the National Trust for Scotland and Edinburgh City Art Centre are delighted to present the first major exhibition of the work of Scottish artist Edward Atkinson Hornel for over 35 years.
Margaret Fay Shaw: the shadow in the corner
Fiona Mackenzie, Canna House Archivist, explores whether folklorist Margaret Fay Shaw deliberately inserted her shadow into her photography as a form of self-portrait.
All is vanity
Haddo House is home to an important macabre vanitas by Baroque artist Salvator Rosa, which may hold a musical secret.
The Hill House: the sleeping princess
Find out how Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh made the beautiful gesso panel above the fireplace in the drawing room.
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.
The tale of a silk dress: part 1 – A journey from Canton to Montrose
Read our first entry in the imagined diary of a blue silk dress, now in our collection at House of Dun.
Collections diaries – from St Kitts to the Georgian House, Edinburgh
The regional curator for Edinburgh and East shares her recent research into one object, found quite by accident during documentation work.