21 March 2011

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Culture Minister Fiona Hyslop has announced 30 new traditional building apprenticeships as part of the Government’s strategy to put traditional building skills at the heart of Scotland’s construction industry and boost economic recovery. The strategy ‘Traditional Building Skills: A strategy for sustaining and developing traditional building skills in Scotland’ has been developed by Historic Scotland with Skills Development Scotland, Sector Skills Council and Construction Skills.

21 March 2011

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Historic Scotland is to begin consultation on its Gaelic Language Plan from today (Monday 21st March).

21 March 2011

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Scotland’s five world heritage sites will come together for the first time in a series of interactive events to mark World Heritage Day. The day will see people across Scotland celebrate each of the country’s world heritage sites – Edinburgh Old and New Town, New Lanark, Heart of Neolithic Orkney, The Antonine Wall and St. Kilda.

21 March 2011

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A 13 week public consultation on a Management Plan for the world heritage site at New Lanark was launched today, 21st March 2011. The New Lanark World Heritage Management Plan was drafted and agreed by a partnership of Historic Scotland, the New Lanark Trust and South Lanarkshire Council.

17 March 2011

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A Scottish designer who blazed the way for Charles Rennie MacIntosh and the famous ‘Glasgow Style’ is to be the subject of a conference in Glasgow later this month. Daniel Cottier, who now lends his name to Cottier’s bar and restaurant in Glasgow’s West End was one of the most influential designers of his day internationally, yet until now his story has remained relatively untold at home.