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18th January 2021

Edinburgh History & The Stories Behind the Stories: Queen Margaret of Scotland In this series...

18th January 2021

On 25th January, we celebrate Burns’ Night. This usually consists of eating haggis, neeps and...

24th December 2020

177 years ago, a man by the name of Charles Dickens sat down and wrote a novella called A Christmas...

24th November 2020

To say Elsie Maud Inglis achieved a lot in her 53 years on this planet, is an...

9th April 2020

Scotch whisky is loved the world over, and here in Scotland we’re clearly very proud of our...

3rd April 2020

Written by Mercat Tours Storyteller Simon Bendle Edinburgh’s New Town is arguably the...

5th March 2020

Many great authors have hailed from Edinburgh, in both the past and present. It’s no wonder...

14th February 2020

From hauntings to heritage, return to Edinburgh’s dark past again & again. Use your...