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REGULARS
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Editorial
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Letters to the Editor
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SCOTS Q & A - find the answers
to those elusive questions.
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SCOTS Fare – Jamie Thewes cooks breakfast.
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SCOTS Music – Fiddler Paul Anderson.
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SCOTS Book Reviews - Seumas MacLeod
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Clans and Societies
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SCOTS SHOWCASE
FEATURES
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Save the Albatross
Each year more than 100,000 Albatross, the world’s largest and
longest-lived birds, are dragged to their death beneath the sea after
being caught on baited hooks deployed by long-line fishermen. Nineteen
of the 21 species of Albatross are officially regarded as endangered.
SCOTS is adding its weight to an international campaign to save the
Albatross with this cover story by our Senior Staff Writer, Angus
Urquhart.
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Land and Legacy
As
part of Highland 2007, the year in which
Scotland
celebrates its
Highland
culture, a major touring exhibition - Fonn ’s
Duthchas (Land and Legacy) pays homage to the heritage and creativity of
a society that contributes so significantly to the country’s cultural
identity. This is the first of a series of features highlighting the
exhibition by Hugh Cheape, Senior Curator at
National Museums
Scotland
.
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Rediscovering Culloden
The
National Trust for
Scotland
has embarked upon what is perhaps the most
ambitious, the most expensive and potentially the most challenging
undertaking in its history. In spending close to £10 million
redeveloping and reinterpreting one of the country’s most significant
historic sites, the battlefield at Culloden, old wounds are being
re-opened as Scots are being asked to come to terms with the often
painful truth behind the last pitched battle fought on British soil.
Bruce MacWilliam reports from
Inverness
.
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Alladale
On
the beautiful Alladale Estate in Sutherland, an extraordinary experiment
is taking place, one which, if it succeeds, could turn the clock back to
a time before the coming of Man, when wolves, brown bear, elk and wild
boar roamed freely in the arboreal forests that cloaked every part of
the
Highlands
. Alladale’s visionary owner, Paul Lister, is
prepared to spend whatever it takes to make his dream a reality. Bruce
Stannard reports.
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The Fishermen and Women of the Firth of
Forth
The
Scots, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, were among the earliest
and most accomplished pioneers of photography as an art form. Their
powerful and beautiful images, taken in
Edinburgh
between 1843 and 1847 are today regarded as
masterpieces of photography. This is particularly true of their work in
documenting the lives of the fishermen and women of the
village
of
Newhaven
on the Firth of Forth. Sara Stevenson, Chief Curator
of the Scottish National Photography Collection, explains how Hill and
Adamson invented the art of social documentary photography.
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Edinburgh
Castle
- Prisons of War
Christopher
Tabraham tells the story of the pirates, Jacobites and French prisoners
of war held in the vaults of
Edinburgh
Castle
.
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Islay
and Jura
Lord
George Robertson concludes his personal view of the islands.
62 Ocean Power
Having
already met its 2010 target of producing 18 per cent of
Scotland
’s electricity from renewable sources, the Scottish
Executive is now aiming at producing 40 per cent of its power needs by
the year 2020. That would make
Scotland
one of the cleanest, greenest energy producers in
the world. It is a target which may well be within reach thanks to an
enterprising Edinburgh-based engineering company, Ocean Power Delivery
Ltd, which has developed an ingenious system for harnessing the
abundant, free and clean energy generated by the movement of the sea.
The company has just been given the go-ahead for the first significant
wave-power installation off the coast of
Stromness
in Orkney. Donald Cameron reports from
Leith
.
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Scotland
’s Castles
Christopher
Tabraham continues his series on the castles of
Scotland
. In this issue we journey to Tantallon, Threave,
Doune and Darnaway castles.
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Painting with Light
Landscape
photographer Andrew Lock has created a collection of truly remarkable
images whose moody luminosity conveys the look and feel of masterful
brush strokes on canvas. In Dalnabreac, Argyll, Fiona MacGillivray spoke
with the man who paints with light.
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Tigh Na Leigh
Tigh
Na Leigh is much, much more than a
Highland
guesthouse. It’s a home-away-from-home for the
travel weary, a place in which warm and convivial hospitality goes
hand-in-hand with excellent local food and stylish décor. Iain Gunn
reports on a wonderful weekend in the Perthshire
village
of
Alyth
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The Blaeu Atlas of
Scotland
When
the Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu published Volume V of his great Atlas
Novus in 1654, the 49 beautifully detailed plates dedicated to
Scotland
made it one of the best-mapped countries in the
world and provided a unique record of
Scotland
as it was 350 years ago. The
Edinburgh
publishers, Birlinn Ltd, have now produced a new
Limited Edition of the Blaeu Atlas in association with The National
Library of Scotland. Charles Withers, Professor of Historical Geography
at the
University
of
Edinburgh
writes a learned introduction.
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The Culture of the Sea
Portsoy,
the picturesque little stone village on the Banffshire coast and the
city of
Hobart
, half a world away on
Australia
’s island state,
Tasmania
, have one thing in common, an abiding passion for
traditional wooden vessels of all shapes and sizes. Each plays host to
burgeoning wooden boat festivals that attract tens of thousands of
enthusiasts from around the world. The festivals are part of a growing
international movement that celebrates the culture of the sea. Isla
Macdonald reports.
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