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A man an a woman stand in a doorway.
17 Oct 2025

Love Scotland podcast – 2025 season, part II

This week, Jackie is joined by historian Steven Veerapen to discuss the role James VI played in Scotland’s witch trials.

Flowers in front of Geilston House on a sunny day
14 Oct 2025

Plans for Geilston House progress

A planning application for a major programme of work at Geilston House, in Cardross, has been submitted.

An ammonite fossil is displayed against a dark background.

Scottish Geology Festival at Hugh Miller’s Birthplace

This autumn, the team at Hugh Miller’s Birthplace are gearing up to demonstrate why geology rocks at the 2025 Scottish Geology Festival!

Metal letters spelling out Culloden are attached to an old stone wall at the entrance to a driveway. It has rained recently and the grass and stones glisten as the sun breaks through the clouds.
11 Sept 2025

Historian leaves generous legacy to protect Culloden

Professor Christopher Duffy left our charity more than £1 million to support our work to protect Culloden Battlefield.

A group of 16 people stand in front of a stone structure with a turf roof. Behind them is the calm water of Village Bay, St Kilda.
5 Sept 2025

From the edge of the world 2025 – part 3

We take a look at a ‘day in the life’ of people living on St Kilda on the 95th anniversary of the evacuation.

A sepia image of a family of four - mother, father, son and daughter. The image was taken around 1894.

Jane and Alexander Whyte of the Georgian House

Jane and Alexander (Alec) Whyte lived at the Georgian House, their second marital home, between 1889 and 1917.

Two young girls, along with their father and grandmother, pose in front of a 230-year-old copy of a Robert Burns book.
22 Aug 2025

Burns descendants visit museum to see family artefact

A 10th-generation descendant of Robert Burns paid a visit to see a book the bard gifted her six-times great-grandmother.

A view of the frontage of the Georgian House and neighbouring Robert Adam-designed buildings, in Charlotte Square. The Georgian House has a blue front door in this image, mirroring the blue sky overhead.

Ghosts and grim tales of the Georgian House

Many paranormal researchers believe that objects leave residual energy from the people who owned or used them. If residual energy is real, then in theory, the Georgian House the Georgian House ought to be among the most haunted places in Edinburgh.

MUST be credited with: Queen Anne: studio of John Closterman, oil on canvas, circa 1702, based on a work of circa 1702 (NPG 215) © National Portrait Gallery, London
1 Aug 2025

The often-forgotten story of Queen Anne

During Pride Month, Visitor Services Assistant Lucien Winton-Bonas took a dip into the private life of the last Stuart monarch – Queen Anne – and examines her links to Culloden.

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