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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Since 2004, when Poland joined the EU, there has
been a dramatic swelling in the number of Polish people making a new
home in Scotland. In fact, over 22,000 have come to make Scotland their
home. If you think Polish connections to Scotland are only just
beginning to flourish, think again. Clues all around Scotland include
the old Polish churches, Solidarity Square in Clydebank, Robert Gordon
University and our very own half-Polish Bonnie Prince Charlie.
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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From Fife to Philadelphia, from Dumfries to
Dunedin, St Andrew’s Day is celebrated by proud Scots and their friends
around the globe. On a new set of stamps launched on St Andrew’s day
2006, the Saint features for the first time ever on a Royal Mail stamp
as part of a special set which celebrates promoting Scotland, its
patron saint and its day of national celebration.
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Cambuslang-born
Midge Ure has proved to be one of Scotland’s most enduring musical
talents. Starting out with Slik in the early 1970’s, he moved through
punk rock with ex-Sex Pistol Glenn Matlock’s band The Rich Kids, and
onto the New Romantic movement in the eighties, scoring huge hits with
Visage and Ultravox, before embarking on a hugely successful solo
career.
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Scotland has some of the finest hotels and
places to stay in the world. There are a vast array available to cater
for all budgets, from the luxurious Gleneagles Hotel through to the
cosy Rowan Tree in Aviemore. In this feature we offer just a glimpse of
some of the best and most stylish that modern Scotland has to offer.
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Scotland is known throughout the world for
bringing in the New Year in grand style, especially Edinburgh which is
host to the biggest Hogmanay street party in the world.
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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This year’s Scottish International Storytelling Festival was the first
to take place in the new Storytelling Centre on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
One of the world’s first purpose-built venues for storytelling, the
Scottish Centre has attracted acclaim at home and wide international
interest. So what is the story?
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Born in Newarthill near Motherwell, 24-year-old
designer Christopher Kane is one of the hottest new names in fashion. His show at London Fashion Week drew unanimous acclaim.
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Glasgow based rm* is an award-winning digital
media and animation company. The result of a collaboration between
artists Debs Norton and Gaylie Runciman – who met when they were both
studying for the MPhil in Digital Animation at Glasgow School of Art –
the duo are among the most exciting visual artists to have emerged in
Scotland in the past decade: a fact reflected last year when they won
the ‘Tastemaker of the Year’ Award at the Scottish Style Awards, where
they were selected by a panel of judges that included luminaries like
Channel 4’s Stuart Cosgrove and GQ Editor Dylan Jones.
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Scotland as a country has much to be proud of. As
Churchill once said, " Of all the world's small nations on earth,
perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution
to mankind." Our ancestors have travelled the globe and left a lasting
impression wherever they roamed.
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Scotland's Read of Choice by Kenneth Stephen. From the innovative deductions of Sherlock Holmes to the
conundrums facing Inspector John Rebus, Scottish writers have turned
the country into a powerhouse for page-turning crime fiction.
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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For a country small in size, the creative output of Scots is big
and dazzling. Across multiple disciplines there is much to shout about.
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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It is one of the most significant photographs ever taken. It was a
world first, and a breathtaking innovation for its time. This humble
image of a knot of tartan ribbon still resides at 14 India Street,
Edinburgh, an address that was once the private home of its creator,
and is now a public museum of his life. For this is the first permanent
colour photograph ever taken, and it was made in 1861 in Scotland by
James Clerk Maxwell – one of this country's many pioneering minds.
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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The sight of Scottish actors portraying ancient Greek heroes is one
that has become familiar to the cinema-going public around the world,
with King Agamemnon being brought to life on the silver screen by both
Brian Cox and Sean Connery (in Troy and Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits
respectively), and most recently by Glaswegian actor Gerard Butler
starring as the iconic Spartan King Leonidas in the smash hit 300.
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Features - Scotland
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Golf is much more than a game in Scotland: it is a way of life. For
over six hundred years Scotsmen have chased a little white ball around
rugged stretches of coastline, the date easily verifiable as King James
II tried to ban golf in Scotland by an Act of Parliament in 1457.
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