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Cowgatehead in the Grassmarket, the medieval
heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town, is home to some of
Scotland’s quirkiest and most distinctive shops and
boutiques. In the first of a series on the country’s
best small independent retailers, Angus Urquhart
visits Fabhatrix and meets milliner Fawns Reid.
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Tartan is making a spectacular comeback in the
world of women’s fashion. SCOTS Editor, Susan
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Cromarty, reports on the welcome return of classic,

high quality garments, Made in Scotland.
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In the second of our features on the iconic paintings
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in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Fiona
MacGillivray focuses on Sir Walter Scott, the novelist
and poet whose powerful romantic prose changed
the way we perceive Scotland.
64 THE DEVIL’S BEEF TUB 84 RAFFLES ARK
At the head of Annandale, north of Moffat in Singapore’s founding father, Sir Thomas Stamford
Dumfriesshire, four great hills collide and form Raffles, brought home a priceless collection
in their depths a cavernous, dark and forbidding including beautiful paintings or exotic birds, plants
semi-circular hollow known for centuries as the and animals commissioned during his years in the
Devil’s Beef Tub. It’s one of the iconic landmarks Far East. The collection is now on exhibition at the
in Scotland’s Southern Uplands. It’s also part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Heather Ross
Corehead Farm, 640 acres of rolling hills and spoke with senior curator, Dr Henry Noltie.
spectacular valleys, which is about to be purchased
90 CHANGING LIGHT
by the community-based Borders Forest Trust. At his
The Road to the Isles meanders west from Fort
home near Peebles, the ecologist Dr Philip Ashmole
William to the salty old seaport of Mallaig. En route,
spoke with Iain Gunn.
it passes through countryside steeped in Scottish
70 THE GLASGOW BOYS history. Landscape photographer Andy Lock takes us
Over a century ago, from 1880 until 1900, the along for the ride.
vibrant and exuberant work of a group of young
92 THE WALL IN THE WILDERNESS
Scottish painters brought a breath of fresh air to
Greg Duncan’s Scottish forebears emigrated
British art. They were known as The Glasgow Boys
to Victoria during the heady days of the great
and their canvases, full of brilliant light and bold
Australian gold rush of the 1850s. Although they
colour, celebrated the ordinary lives of Scotland’s
didn’t strike it rich, they nevertheless bequeathed
rural workers. Their work is to be the subject of a
Greg a mother lode of energy, creativity and
major new exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and
resourcefulness that has today helped make him
Museum. Isla Macdonald reports from Glasgow.
one of Australia’s most outstanding sculptors. At
76 SCOTLAND’S PEOPLE CENTRE Derwent Bridge in the heart of Tasmania’s World
Edinburgh’s General Register House, the magnificent Heritage wilderness, he and his family have built a
Robert Adam designed repository for the national gallery to house a truly unique work of art, a wall
archives of Scotland has been beautifully of sculpted wood through which Greg tells the
refurbished in a £15 million restoration that now story of the island’s often turbulent history. Seumas
makes it the hub of a unique new family history MacLeod reports.
centre offering a one-stop shop for all those seeking
98 WILL YE NO COME BACK AGAIN?
details of their Scottish ancestry. In Edinburgh
Some of Scotland’s most famous traditional ballads
Catriona Stuart spoke with George MacKenzie,
were written anonymously in the late eighteenth
Keeper of the Records of Scotland.
century by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne. The
82 O CALEDONIA! songs are beautifully performed on Jean Redpath’s
Scotland’s great landscape painter, James Morrison latest CD, Will Ye No Come Back Again? Angus
pays tribute to the lonely beauty of the north- Urquhart spoke with Miss Redpath in Mahomet,
western Highlands. Illinois.

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