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Explore centuries of Scottish history and archaeology with fascinating features on topics from all branches and periods of Scottish history and archaeology, written by leading historians, archaeologists and museum curators. With news on the latest research, opinion, expert reviews and spotlights on the country's most significant historical archives, this lavishly-illustrated magazine has everything you need to explore Scotland's rich past.

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Bird’s eye map captures a city ‘on the cusp of greatness’ • Gallus Glasgow, a new project from Glasgow City HeritageTrust, uses an intricate 19th-century map of Glasgow as a catalyst for exploring the following 50 years of the city’s development, as it became ‘the Second City of the Empire’

Launch of campaign to save Glasgow ’s Egyptian Halls • A new organisation,The Egyptian Halls SCIO, has been established with the aim of seeing the Egyptian Halls on Union Street in Glasgow restored and fully brought back into use

Dundee’s historic links with slavery acknowledged

‘A BERWICKSHIRE POLICEMAN, FROZEN TO DEATH’ • Dr David M. Smale shares his archival research into the career of John Drummond, a Berwickshire ‘Bobby’ whose tragic death illustrates the harsh working conditions of 19th-century police constables

CRAFTWORKERS IN 19TH-CENTURY SCOTLAND: A ‘GOLDEN AGE’ • Though usually remembered as an age of industrialisation, the 1800s was also marked by a vibrant craft sector, with the skills and ingenuity of craftworkers being highly regarded and widely celebrated. Professor Stana Nenadic, author of a new book on craftworking, explores this 19th-century heyday

SPOTLIGHT ON… DID FISH DIET OF IRON AGE ‘ELDER’ MARK HER AS SPECIAL? • Analysis of a woman’s jawbone deposited outside an Iron Age broch around AD200 has shown that seafood was a major part of her diet

‘FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE IN DUNDEE’: THE TRAGEDY OF SPRINGTHORPE’S MUSIC HALL • Dr Billy Rough uses contemporary newspaper reports to explore the forgotten story of a music hall tragedy that claimed the lives of 20 people on a winter’s night in 1865

Songs of the Hebrides • Clare Stubbs tells the story of Marjory Kennedy Fraser – a music teacher, suffragette and significant player in the Celtic revival movement

THE HIGHL AND WAR, PART 1 • In the opening instalment of a new, four-part series about the first Jacobite rising, also known as the Highland War of 1689-91, Dr Graeme Millen explores the background to the conflict, and assesses how the opposing sides went about gathering their forces

CL AN FORBES FAMILY HISTORY PROJECT • Philip Stead presents findings from a research project that investigated the degree of relationship between Clan Forbes members and the Forbes chieftain lineage

The duke of Lennox, 1574-1624 • The French-born Ludovic Stuart, duke of Lennox, was one of the most important courtiers during the reign of James VI, and in this position played a central role in the politics of his era, but he is largely unknown today. Drawing upon his new biography of Lennox, Professor David M. Bergeron explores the duke’s overlooked life and legacy

SWITCHING SIDES • Spotlight: Jacobites returns with a look into the soldiers from the British army who deserted their ranks and ended up fighting amongst their Jacobite foes. Dr Darren S. Layne explains

WHERE ARE THE WOMEN OF SCOTL AND’S HERITAGE SITES? • Do Scotland’s heritage sites do a good job of presenting the role of women in history? That’s the question Shona Burns asks as she shares some of her interpretation proposals based around the life of Mary Queen of Scots

St Ninian: Scotland’s forgotten patron saint • While St Andrew has long been recognised as Scotland’s official patron saint, his preeminence was challenged...