Nan Spowart
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 27, 2026
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New book reveals the wildlife treasures of Scotland’s overlooked north-east coast (opens the original)
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IT’S an often overlooked area of Scotland yet the northeast coast of Aberdeenshire, Angus and Moray is a treasure trove of wildlife and stunning views. These are now highlighted in a new book by naturalist Keith Broomfield called Where A Cold Light Falls. Having recently published the popular Wild Edinburgh, a study of the city of his youth, the wildlife writer has now turned his attention to this sometimes forgotten corner of Scotland. Puffins are found at the Bullers of Buchan “It’s just such
Mary Beard to investigate shocking Roman murder mysteries in Glasgow show (opens the original)
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RENOWNED historian Mary Beard will turn true crime sleuth when she returns to the Glasgow stage next month. “I’m going to investigate a couple of cold cases from the ancient world,” she told the Sunday National. “What is amazing is that one of the commonest survivals from the Roman world are tombstones and how often they say, ‘this person was murdered’.” Beard is returning to Glasgow after her sold-out 2025 tour, and this time she will be side-stepping the Roman emperors to focus on the ordinary
Hiraeth, sÃreacht and cianalas at heart of award-winning photographer's exhibition (opens the original)
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THE Celtic concepts of hiraeth, sÃreacht and cianalas are the theme of a new exhibition by award-winning photographer Miriam Morris. They are words from the Irish, Welsh and Gaelic languages meaning a homesickness, loneliness or melancholic longing for a person, place or past time. The exhibition also references Emily Dickinsonâs poem, Forever Is Composed Of Nows, in which the poet suggests that eternity is the accumulation of the present â each fleeting ânowâ a part of something contin
Why this revolutionary orchestra lets audiences walk among the musicians (opens the original)
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RENOWNED composer Charles Hazlewood’s life changed when he was six years old and was invited to sit amongst the musicians during an orchestra rehearsal. It changed again as an adult when his fourth child was born with cerebral palsy. As a conductor of international orchestras for several decades, it bothered him that he’d never come across disabled musicians in any of them. It led him to start the world’s first integrated ensemble of disabled and non-disabled musicians whose “extraordinary”
New Scottish play honours the woman who really invented Monopoly (opens the original)
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IT’S ironic that a board game designed to challenge the evils of land monopoly resulted in the female creator being cheated out of the money it made. Charles Darrow was the first person to make a million from a board game but it was actually the pioneering feminist and economist, Lizzie Magie, who invented The Landlord’s Game that became Monopoly. Now the hidden history of a game that has become a notorious Christmas Day wrecker is being explored in a new production by award winning theatre comp
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