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scotland in brief

Find out about living in Scotland, including culture, icons, multiculturalism and language.

poets and poetry

See new poetry, reflecting the diversity of language in Scotland today, commissioned in collaboration with Edinburgh: UNESCO City of Literature.

arts and culture: accents

The chances are that if you left a Scotsman with the forest people in the middle of the Amazonian jungle for 20 years, he would still speak like a Scot. Read more

arts and culture: a sense of belonging

What happens when a famous photographer asks Scottish personalities to write a description of their favourite place in Scotland to accompany his photographs? Find out

history and heritage: myth

Tourists in Scotland still thrive on popular icons such as tartan, pipes and the revered Loch Ness Monster. Here's a fresh look at myths attached to Scotland and the Scots.

history and heritage: highlands and islands

The Pacific North West and the Scottish Highlands and Islands are linked by more than history. Find out more about it here

sports and leisure: genealogy

If you are interested in Scottish roots, access some of the world’s best sites for family history as well as some of the earliest and most comprehensive sets of records available anywhere.

sports and leisure: currency of the dead

Night-time walks through Scotland's shadowy burial grounds have become increasingly popular and tourism companies are adept at utilising the past to provide a window into the future. Read more

scotland

LearnEnglish would like to thank the following sources for the content of this issue:

British Council Scotland for the section on new Scottish poetry.

ScotlandNow for the following articles and the images that accompany them: Scottish - Probably the best accent in the world; A Sense of Belonging; Myth Represented; The highlands and islands; Genealogy; Currency of the Dead

Scotland Now is the quarterly online magazine of Global Friends of Scotland, and is designed to keep you up to date with the progress of modern devolved Scotland.