Culture
Edinburgh’s Culture Conflict: The Struggle to Free the Fringe
Author / Creator: Charlie Ellis
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
Do the ‘Big Four’ venues dominate the Fringe to an unhealthy degree?
Ar Dàimhean is Dualchas: Safeguarding Scotland’s Intangible Cultural Heritage
Author / Creator: Stephen Collins
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
The traditional means of Intangible Cultural Heritage transmission and preservation in the Outer Hebrides communities have not survived the changes brought about by economic migration, the generational absence of Gaelic in educational settings, technological changes, and the incoming of non-Gaelic speakers.
Scotland's Future Culture Recalibrating a Nation's Identity
Author / Creator: Stuart McHardy
Media type: Book
Date published: 2017
A look at the misrepresentation of so much of Scotland’s political and social history
Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography
Author / Creator: A. Riach
Media type: Book
Date published: 2025
This fascinating new study is about cultural change and continuities.
The Wealth of the Nation Scotland, Culture and Independence
Author / Creator: Cairns Craig
Media type: Book
Date published: 2018
How Scotland has continued to assert its distinctive cultural difference.
The Old Divide: A History of Sectarianism in Scotland
Author / Creator: Chris Bambery
Date published: 2025
The roots of Scotland’s sectarianism problem and its toxic legacy.
Sports and Culture in Scotland
Author / Creator: Dave Watson
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
Sports and culture benefit individuals, communities, and the economy.
Building a New Scotland: Culture in an independent Scotland
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
ulture is central to building diverse, inclusive and prosperous communities.
A Culture Strategy for Scotland
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Consultation paper
Date published: 2023
A Culture Strategy for Scotland shows how important culture is to Scotland’s prosperity and sets the future direction for supporting culture in Scotland.
A Culture Strategy for Scotland
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2020
A Culture Strategy for Scotland shows how important culture is to Scotland’s prosperity and sets the future direction for supporting culture in Scotland.
National events strategy review: consultation
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Consultation paper
Date published: 2023
Scotland's National events strategy is being reviewed and updated.
A Culture Strategy for Scotland
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Consultation paper
Date published: 2023
A Culture Strategy for Scotland shows how important culture is to Scotland’s prosperity and sets the future direction for supporting culture in Scotland.
The New Sociology of Scotland
Author / Creator: David McCrone
Media type: Book
Date published: 2017
A ground-breaking, comprehensive account of the social, political, economic and cultural processes at work in contemporary Scottish society.
Somersaulting out of a Cave of Gold: thoughts on the current and future condition of the Gàidhealtachd
Author / Creator: Mike Small
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
In the case of Scottish Gàidheil, personal loneliness and social brokenness have been compounded by a complicating psychological factor. We have turned ourselves against spiritual, or Otherworld, forces that have power to support revitalisation of an indigenous lifeworld.
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future
Author / Creator: Val McDermid
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
A collection of ideas, dreams and ambitions, aiming to inspire change, hope and imagination.
Religion, Policy, and Politics
Author / Creator: Michael Rosie
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
Religion has made a core contribution to the shaping of the Scottish nation, and continues to influence its politics and policy.
Multicultural Scotland
Author / Creator: Ross Bond
Media type: book
Date published: 2020
Why, although there is widespread evidence of racism in Scotland, Scottish politics is not racialized to the same extent as in some other parts of the UK.