Features
Find out just how much more there is to Scotland here, from castles to clans and Glasgow to golf.
Scotland: a Fair Trade nation
Feb 2013
Scotland celebrates as it is named one of the world’s first Fair Trade Nations.
Discover The Big 5 - Scotland’s most amazing animals
May 2013
Discover the Big 5: Scotland's most iconic wildlife
John Muir: The Life and Times
Apr 2013
John Muir, the Scottish naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States, is being honoured this year with the first ever Juohn Muir Day on April 21. Find out more here.
Scotland’s social network to host exciting Scotland Week showcase
Apr 2013
Scotland's social network set to launch version 2 at exciting Scotland Week showcase
Scotland’s first ever crowd-sourced self-portrait to preview at Scotland Week
Mar 2013
We Are Northern Lights is the first ever crowd-sourced, mass-participation film project made about Scotland. By Scotland.
David Livingstone - The boy from Blantyre who became an African legend
Mar 2013
DAVID Livingstone, the world-famous missionary and explorer, was born 200 years ago today in Blantyre.
We Are Northern Lights: Scotland’s first ever crowd-sourced self-portrait
Feb 2013
We Are Northern Lights is the first ever crowd-sourced, mass-participation film project made about Scotland. By Scotland.
Up Helly Aa - Europe’s biggest fire festival
Feb 2013
Up Helly Aa is Scotland's most long-standing tradition and has grown to become one of Europe's biggest fire festivals.
Top Scottish music talent to be showcased in Texas
Jan 2013
Five Scottish bands and three DJs are set to fly the flag for Scottish creative talent at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas this year .
Scottish Dance Theatre Tour of India
Jan 2013
Scottish Dance Theatre's Acting Artistic Director, James MacGillivray, tells us about the company's incredible experience touring India
Celtic Connections at 20
Jan 2013
It began as a way to fill Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall in January, but as Celtic Connections kicks off its 20th festival, it has become a massive success that has changed people's idea of Scottish traditional music.
Bards’ day brings Scottish and Russian artists into collaboration
Jan 2013
On 25th January 2013, the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Hall in Ekaterinburg, Russia will host the finale of the now well-established international Burns & Vysotsky: One Soul - Two Poets Festival.
India diaspora links wanted for giant Scottish tapestry project
Jan 2013
Scottish arts organisation are looking for peple in India with family connections to Scotland to take part in an international tapestry project
Hogmanay (HOG - MUH - NAY)
Dec 2012
Every year as the long winter nights creep by, Scots look forward to the biggest party of the calendar, when by tradition we defy the darkness to see out the old year, and welcome in the new. We examine the history and origins of the Hogmanay celebration, take a peek at the festivities that take place across Scotland on New Year's Night.
The History and Words of Auld Lang Syne
Dec 2012
Auld Lang Syne is a song which thrilled the soul of Robert Burns in the 1780s, and today has become an anthem sung the world over at New Year.