"Previously…Scotland’s History Festival" will take place from 17 November until St Andrews Day on November 30. Plugging the gap between the end of Edinburgh’s summer festivals and the start of the winter festivities, history fans from across the globe are invited to Edinburgh for an impressive choice of over 200 events and a celebration of Scotland’s colourful history.
Shoppers of the world are being asked to put down their carrier bags on what is traditionally one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year, put up their feet and/or do something fun and free for the annual Buy Nothing Day.
A Concert for Trees, celebrating the United Nation’s International Year of Forests, is set to fill Edinburgh’s Usher Hall on Saturday 26th November, with a string quartet made from an old sycamore tree that once stood in the garden of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s childhood home, taking centre stage.
Medieval music specialists Gaïta present music from France in the High Middle Ages, interwoven with stories from the Arthurian romances, some familiar, some less so.
