Celebrating Scotland’s story
Re-imagining Scotland
Scotland is a nation built upon centuries of history, art, literature and shared experience. By highlighting many different aspects of Scottish culture, we hope to inspire fresh perspectives, challenge preconceptions, and encourage Scotland’s creativity and imagination.
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Announcing the Atlas of Scotland
Since launching back in January 2021, The Scots Curator has been showcasing a variety of historical, cultural and artistic projects from across the country. Now it’s time for us to take the next step with the announcement of our first ever in-house creative project. Today we can finally reveal that The Scots Curator will be…
Steve Byrne: Iconic ‘Flower of Scotland’ instrument saved for the public
This week we’re delighted to welcome folk musician Steve Byrne to The Scots Curator. Steve recently crowdfunded the money required to purchase an iconic instrument – Roy Williamson’s bouzouki used in The Corries’ first public performance of ‘Flower of Scotland’. The 1968 song has since grown in popularity, especially at sporting events, and is now…
Dr Joana Valdez-Tullett: ‘This changes everything we knew about rock art in Scotland’
On Monday, Historic Environment Scotland announced that extremely rare carvings, thought to be between 4,000 and 5,000-years-old, had been discovered inside Dunchraigaig Cairn at Kilmartin Glen. The carvings, which include depictions of two red deer, are the earliest known animal carvings in Scotland, and are being treated as a major historic discovery. This week, we…
Kenneth McElroy: ‘This is one of the most exciting experimental archaeology projects in the world’
This week we’re delighted to welcome Kenneth McElroy from the Caithness Broch Project to The Scots Curator. In this interview, Kenneth explains why brochs are among the most intriguing structures in Scotland’s history – he tells us what these multi-storey Iron Age towers may have been used for, where we can find them, and also…
Jack Capener: ‘More folk than ever are engaging with Scots’
This week we’re delighted to welcome Jack Capener to The Scots Curator. Jack is a founder of Oor Vyce, an exciting new initiative campaigning for the official recognition of the Scots language. Ahead of the Scottish Parliamentary elections in May, Oor Vyce are calling for candidates to sign up to a Scots Pledge to help…
Celebrating the Declaration of Arbroath’s 701st anniversary
With the Declaration of Arbroath’s 700th anniversary celebrations called off in April 2020, we’ve decided mark the 701st anniversary by putting together a list of all the best resources, including books, films and radio programmes, to help you learn more about this fascinating part of Scotland’s history from home. Here are 6 great ways to…
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