Scottish International Storytelling Festival - Giving History a Damn Good Telling
After explaining the grisly punishments meted out to ‘criminals’ at the Mercat...
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Unsavoury Hobby
In 1823 a certain John Forrest, a graduate physician practising in Stirling and former pupil of...
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"Marriage or death" she cried "remember whose daughter I am"
We start in 1689 with the gruesome execution of John Chiesley. A relative of Lord Ravenswood...
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One of my favourite stories is that of the serial killers Burke and Hare. Recently, I’ve...
Read StoryRomance is not dead...even when you're dead!
Who says love and romance needs to end with your last breath! There are quite a few ghosts haunting...
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Most people in Scotland look to the Stewarts (or the Stuarts as they later chose to spell it) as the...
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I have always enjoyed long walks - perhaps why I have never been deterred by the walking tour aspect...
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