With much loved music from across the centuries and different parts of the world, this concert is a wonderful occasion to entertain family, friends and colleagues in the run up to the festivities.

Dr Robert Pirrie WS dissects the serial distortions of Scotland's past created or perpetuated by the Victorian era's most influential historian.

The fortunes of the Grants of Kilgraston in Perthshire were interlinked with the rise and subsequent decline of the British Empire and the Caribbean slave economy. The men and women are a wonderfully varied cast of characters who were colourful, idiosyncratic, wayward and talented.

The fortunes of the Grants of Kilgraston in Perthshire were interlinked with the rise and subsequent decline of the British Empire and the Caribbean slave economy.

The men and women are a wonderfully varied cast of characters who were colourful, idiosyncratic, wayward and talented.

When refugees and exiles turned to the Signet Library to save a great European culture from destruction.

In the years after Napoleon, Polish culture found itself under threat from enemies east and west.