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October 2024
Our Website Design, Maintenance and Hosting page is updated to reflect recent projects. The feature page for Alford Valley Community Railway is revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for The Art of Scottish Golf by Martin Dempster, The Life and Death of Mary, Queen of Scots by Jan-Marie Knights and Mach Book One: The Awakening by David Hutchison.
September 2024
New feature pages are added for Tarves Heritage Centre and St James the Less Church, Cruden Bay. The feature pages for Tarves, Tarves Tomb, Craigievar Castle, Castle Fraser, Collieston, The Grampian Transport Museum, Inverallochy & Cairnbulg, Fraserburgh, The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Peterhead, Boddam, Cruden Bay and Slains Castle are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Lies of the Flesh by F.J. Watson, Hebridean Baker: The Scottish Cookbook by Coinneach MacLeod, Scotland From the Air by Shahbaz Majeed, Forgotten Vikings: New Approaches to the Viking Age by Alex Harvey, Wild Places, Wild Encounters: Exploring Edinburgh's Living Landscape by Glen Cousquer, Edinburgh: A New History by Alistair Moffat, Edinburgh: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor, The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda by Andrew Fleming, Thicker Than Water by Ken Lussey, and Not the End of the World by Talya Baldwin.
August 2024
A dining review is added for Itihaas Indian restaurant in Dalkeith. New Book Reviews are added for Lost Kilmarnock by Frank Beattie, Eyes Turned Skywards by Ken Lussey and The Danger of Life by Ken Lussey.
June 2024
The feature pages for Livingston, Kirkliston, Winchburgh, Broxburn, Garlieston, Port William, Drumtroddan Standing Stones, Cruggleton Church and Glenluce Abbey are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Edinburgh Reflections by Jack Gillon, The Last Sunset in the West: Britain's Vanishing West Coast Orcas by Natalie Sanders, Tipsy Lairds and Rumbledethumps: Scotland's Food and Drink by Gilly Pickup, Fife Pilgrim Way by Duncan Weaver and Jacquetta Megarry and The Days of Our Birth by Charlie Laidlaw.
May 2024
New feature pages are added for Torhouse Stone Circle, Sorbie Tower, Galloway House Gardens, The Castle of St John and the Castle Kennedy Gardens. The feature pages for Whithorn, Whithorn Priory, Isle of Whithorn, St Ninian's Chapel, Wigtown, Wigtown Martyrs, Bladnoch Distillery, Moniaive, St John's Town of Dalry, Stranraer, Stranraer Museum, Cairnryan and the Kinneil Estate are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Redfalcon: Richard Hannay Returns by Robert J. Harris, The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History by Alistair Moffat and The Eye of Horus by Ken Lussey.
April 2024
A new Book Review are added for The Hollow Mountain by Douglas Skelton. Work is underway to bring the technology underpinning Undiscovered Scotland up to date and optimise the performance of the site. While this continues it might cause some inconsistencies in terms of appearance and function between different parts of the site.
March 2024
New feature pages are added for Keiss, Old St Peter's Kirk and the Seafarers Memorial. The feature pages for Wick, Pulteney Distillery, Castle of Old Wick, Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, Whaligoe Steps, Thurso, John o' Groats, Duncansby Head, Helmsdale, the Emigrants Statue and Timespan Museum and Arts Centre are revised, updated and given new images. A new Book Review is added for Bubbleheads, SEALs and Wizards: America's Scottish Bastion in the Cold War by D.G. Mackay.
February 2024
New Book Reviews are added for The Final Frontier: Scotland's Early Roman Landscape by Andrew Tibbs, and Landscape Change in the Scottish Highlands: Imagination and Reality by James Fenton. All external links on the site are checked to ensure they operate as they should and updated where necessary.
January 2024
The feature pages for The Royal Highland Show, The Edinburgh Foodies Festival, The Edinburgh Festival, The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Edinburgh International Book Festival, Dornoch Cathedral, Dornoch, Culross, St Monans, Houstoun House Hotel, Achfary, North Kessock, Kilmuir, Lairg, The Clootie Well, Kinlochbervie, Oldshoremore, Lochinver, Assynt Visitor Centre, Ullapool, Corrieshalloch Gorge, the Blair Castle Horse Trials, the Wigtown Book Festival, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Edinburgh Mela Festival, Scotland's National Airshow and the West Lothian Highland Games are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for The Tide Also Takes by R P Carruthers, Kayaking the Sea Roads: Exploring the Scottish Highlands by Ed Ley-Wilson, and Under the Radiant Hill: Life and the Land in the Remotest Highlands by Robin Noble.
November 2023
New Book Reviews are added for Dark Encounters: A Collection of Ghost Stories by William Croft Dickinson, Seafood Journey: Tastes and Tales From Scotland by Ghillie Basan, Art & Nature in the Outer Hebrides by Bruce Kendrick, and A Tangled Web by Ken Lussey.
September 2023
A dining review is added for The Radhuni Indian restaurant in Loanhead. New Book Reviews are added for Jump Cut by Helen Grant, Airman Abroad by Hamish Brown, Salt: Scotland’s Newest Oldest Industry by Christopher Whatley & Joanna Hambly, The Bone Cave: A Journey through Myth and Memory by Dougie Strang, Columba's Bones by David Greig, Northern Lights: The Arctic Scots by Edward J. Cowan, The Wisest Fool: The Lavish Life of James VI and I by Steven Veerapen and The High Road by Ken Lussey.
August 2023
New Book Reviews are added for War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans by Alistair Moffat, So Many Lives and All of them Are Yours by Ron Butlin, Crucible of Conflict: Three Centuries of Border War by John Sadler, Gallow Falls by Alex Nye, Tales for Twilight: Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories by Alistair W.J. Kerr and Kinloch Tales: The Collected Stories by Denzil Meyrick.
July 2023
The feature page for Croick Church is revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Three Fires by Denise Mina, Donald Ross and the Highland Clearances by Andrew Ross and The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf by Alexander McCall Smith.
June 2023
A dining review is added for Bo'ness Spice in Bo'ness. New Book Reviews are added for Mousa to Mackintosh: The Scottishness of Scottish Architecture by Frank Arneil Walker, No Sweet Sorrow by Denzil Meyrick, Of Judgement Fallen by Steven Veerapen, Weak Teeth by Lynsey May and Penitent by Mark Leggatt.
April 2023
The feature pages for Threave Gardens, Cairnpapple Hill and Kippford are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland by James Crawford, Children of the Mist by Douglas Skelton, Planting with Nature: A Guide to Sustainable Gardening by Kirsty Wilson and A Mighty Fleet and the King’s Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 to 1265 by Tim Clarkson.
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