Charlie Lynch
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From séances to print: The strange journey of a lost Conan Doyle chapter (opens the original)
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YOU’VE surely heard of Sherlock Holmes, but what of The Land Of Mist? Over a century after his creation, Arthur Conan Doyle’s deerstalker-clad detective has been the subject of a seemingly endless number of cultural representations, including multiple films and television adaptations. Yet Conan Doyle wrote much more, including The Land Of Mist, his final full-length novel, published in 1926, four years before his death. Superficially, it was an adventure story featuring pugnacious scientist Prof
What makes one surplus church building more special than another? (opens the original)
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SCOTLAND has become a land of redundant churches. Beginning in the 1960s, secularisation led to a steady, continued decline in both active church membership and adherence. Before this, population change, as well as the labyrinthine history of Scottish Presbyterianism, with its pattern of break-ups and reunions, had already created, in some places, an oversupply of religious buildings. St Vincent Street Church in Glasgow, designed by Alexander âGreekâ Thomson (1817-75), opened in 1859 and was
The history of kissing is more complex than you might think (opens the original)
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KISSING is a serious business for Professor Katie Barclay. A native of Lanarkshire working in Australia, her new popular history, The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power, published this month, gives readers an overview of 1000 years of the cultural world of kissing. This is no small task. The kiss, Barclay says, is an “enduring and flexible symbol” which is “at once strange and familiar”. Hers is a history of the changing meanings of a symbol over centuries, of social practices and of represent
Inside the mission to bring Glasgowâs last working tram back to life (opens the original)
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A 1930s Glasgow tramcar, it is quickly apparent when you see one in the flesh, is not a small item. Tram 1245 towers over the workshop at the Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, Coatbridge. Easily the size of a double-decker bus, the tram has what might be called presence. When it rolled off the production line at Glasgow Corporationâs Coplawhill Works in May 1939, months before the outbreak of the Second World War, 1245 was an example of the latest tramway technology in the city. Wh
Key Scottish arts archive in limbo as CCA sale row continues (opens the original)
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IN January 2026, the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, announced that it was to permanently close; its staff were made redundant, and its building shuttered. For several years, the CCA had been severely troubled, experiencing instability of leadership, financial problems despite a £3.4 million grant from Creative Scotland, a dispute over staffing in the venue’s bar, temporary closures and protests over the failure of the institution to commit to a cultural boyco
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