10 June 2013

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To celebrate the longest day of the year on Friday 21 June, the World Heritage Site (WHS) rangers at the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney will be hosting an evening of music, stories and verse.

6 June 2013

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Tomorrow, Friday 7th June 2013, will see Linlithgow Palace Peel returning to the 16th century to provide the historic setting for the first ever full-length production of Sir David Lyndsay’s drama, A Satire of the Three Estates, which will be performed in its entirety for the first time since 1554

6 June 2013

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Visitors to Seton Collegiate Church in East Lothian will be able to experience a taste of life in medieval times this Saturday, when The Prestoungrange Players and Friends will be performing Collegiate Capers a programme of music, drama and stories for the whole family. Site tours and historic activities will also be delivered by Historic Scotland staff, who run the site.

6 June 2013

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Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs will today attend an event at Parliament celebrating the work of the Roman re-enactment group The Antonine Guard in promoting Scotland’s Roman heritage. The group will give a talk and screen a film, The Mark of Rome, about the Bridgeness Slab project in Bo’ness

5 June 2013

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An apprentice from the National Conservation Centre Elgin has taken the top prize at a UK-wide masonry competition. Heats for the annual UK Masonry Skills Challenge were held in Edinburgh and London last month and John Reid, 18, a third-year apprentice from Elgin won both the Edinburgh heat and the overall competition with a score of 96 per cent.