Managing gardens is all about managing change. Ann Steele will discuss how the National Trust for Scotland works to ensure that Scotland’s great garden heritage is sustainable – now and for future generations. Ann Steele trained as a professional gardener and amenity landscape manager.
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The Briggers are a Forth Bridge research and presentation group of volunteers based in South Queensferry. Named after the bridge workers, the group was formed to identify the names of the 73 men and boys who died constructing the Forth Bridge.
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A truly neglected theatre of war, few people today recall the heroics of the British and Indian troops that fought in modern day Iraq, in a conflict with chilling echoes of modern times, facing casualty rates worse than those on the Western Front.
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One hundred years ago, the Imperial War Graves Commission began the monumental task of commemorating the fallen of the Great War in all theatres of conflict. The British Empire was still reeling from the scale of her losses and so commemoration of the dead and the missing was an especially emoti
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This winter, our museum service had a hugely successful exhibition at the City Art Centre, ‘Robert Blomfield: Edinburgh Street Photography - An Unseen Archive’. Robert Blomfield habitually took photographs of what he saw wherever he went, from the mid-1950s to the 1990s, including ten years in Ed
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In 1950, former City Councillor Stanley Cavaye was invited to a flat in St James Square to view some ‘old pictures’. He discovered an assortment of boxes which contained some 450 glass plate negatives by the little-known Edinburgh photographer, Thomas Begbie.