It was launched in 1977 by a group of volunteers “on a sofa with a telephone”. Now the St Magnus Festival in Orkney is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the creation of its own Festival Orchestra ...

Architect whose cultural projects included the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester and the remodelling of St Luke’s church for the LSO ...

Stephen Rutt’s exploration of Britain’s waterlands combines clear-eyed scientific writing with just the right amount of epiphanic prose, writes David Robinson ...

For drivers, getting your first car is a key rite of passage, notching up memories in tandem with miles on the clock. But one Scots woman has taken her devotion further than most, by snapping up the ...

Britain is shrouded in myth and tales, giving agents the building blocks on which to craft an adventure straight out of the storybooks ...

A visualisation of voters’ choices in the Scottish independence and Brexit referendums has revealed that the country’s political landscape is more varied than commonly understood.

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ROUSAY is an island that is big enough to manage, but is still small enough to care,” beams Bill Brown, who runs this Orcadian ...

These historic and prehistoric spots are nothing less than magical ...

Eski Foça, a town on Turkey’s Aegean coast, has been shaped by thousands of years of history and conquered by dozens of civilizations. Yet it still feels sheltered from the chaos of the modern world.

In the last several years, there has been a steady stream of Indigenous fantasy novels on the mainstream book market. One of these is “The Raven and Eagle” trilogy by Caskey Russell, who takes readers ...

The Scottish archipelago is home to some of the UK's 'most beautiful' beaches with white sand and turquoise waters ...