... An agreement with the National Galleries of Scotland could see the iconic oil painting of a red deer stag, Monarch of the ... the Glen has been on display while on loan to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh for 17 years. ...
Douglas MacQueen - Dec 12 2016 - 1:09pm - 0 comments
... in Pertnshire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt) in Scotland. The carving features a walking figure with a distinctive hairstyle ... discovery. The stone was identified by Mark Hall, of Perth Museum & Art Gallery, (Culture Perth & Kinross), as displaying a particular ...
Douglas MacQueen - Oct 31 2017 - 6:30pm
... uncovered in Galloway is to go on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh next month. Around 70 items from the Galloway Hoard will ...
Douglas MacQueen - May 31 2017 - 11:05am
... was no longer sustainable. The National Trust for Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Urras Nàiseanta na h-Alba) owns the entire ... and information can be found on the National Trust for Scotland website . Now a visitor centre dedicated to the remote St Kilda ...
Douglas MacQueen - Feb 26 2020 - 5:40pm
... the centre of the town of Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Sròn Reamhar, Dùn Phrìs is ... and prison and now after refurbishment in the 1980's it is a museum. There are videos and reconstructions of the building which is open to ...
Anonymous (not verified) - Aug 3 2021 - 12:39pm
... from Westminster (UK) at the moment is about how hopeless Scotland and the Scottish are and how it would not survive without its English masters. The attitude and vindictiveness towards Scotland is clearly seen by British Prime Minister David Cameron's covert ...
Alastair Kneale - Sep 15 2014 - 4:02pm - 0 comments
... Loch Alsh is a sea inlet between Skye (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Sgitheanach) in the Inner Hebrides (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan a-staigh) and the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. The strait of Kyle Akin is a narrow stretch of water at the entrance ...
Douglas MacQueen - Mar 17 2017 - 1:55am - 0 comments
... the Vikingar. This year's lecture concerns Viking women in Scotland by Dr Stephen Harrison of the University of Glasgow. There will also ... Scots and Norse. There had been Viking interventions into Scotland and the surrounding islands since the 8th century AD. The Northern ...
Douglas MacQueen - Aug 31 2018 - 2:14pm
... greater protection for mountain hares. Mountain hares are Scotland's only native hare, where they could have existed since the last ice ... end the indiscriminate mass slaughter of mountain hares on Scotland’s grouse moors. “These new protections come as a direct ...
Douglas MacQueen - Mar 1 2021 - 11:30pm
... in the Scottish newspaper the Daily Record , one of Scotland’s leading breast surgeon’s has said that only voting Yes to independence can save the National Health Service in Scotland. Dr Philippa Whitford said: “In five years, England will not have an ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jul 14 2014 - 12:29pm - 0 comments