Major exhibition to explore the Romantic fascination with the Scottish Highlands

A major exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh this summer – from today to 10 November – tells the fascinating story of how tartan, bagpipes and rugged, wild landscapes became established as enduring, internationally recognised symbols of Scottish identity and how Scotland became established in the popular imagination as a land of …

Lovat Highland Estates mapping (1750s–1960s)

The National Library of Scotland has released more than 400 historic estate maps from Inverness-shire, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire online. The maps cover extensive areas west of Inverness, as far as Mallaig and Fort Augustus in the west and south, and range in date from the 1750s through to the 1960s. The earliest maps in the collection …