Heritage and Arts

Scotland is increasing public spending on culture, with hundreds of millions of pounds allocated to national collections, Creative Scotland, performing companies, buildings and major cultural institutions. Yet the national fund covering traditional craft alongside music, storytelling, dance, indigenous languages and other forms of living

Scotland’s October school break survives in a calendar that has largely forgotten the work which helped shape it. For generations, tens of thousands of children left classrooms each autumn to lift potatoes by hand, sometimes for weeks at a time. Government records show more