- This Month in the Gloaming – June 2011 Each month we present some of the best new photos of Scotland in the gloaming, the magical time before sunrise or after sunset. This month featuring images of Princess Street, Loch Lomond, Jura, the Port of Menteith, and more.
- A Postcard From Billy If you’re looking for some off-season Billy, here’s a quick one – a Word Cloud I created from the McLeish Report. What’s a Word Cloud? A visualisation of the relative frequency of words in a piece of text – which can give insights into that text. In this case, I cut and pasted the entire […]
- Scottish Entertainment / Actor News Dear Scotland is delighted to welcome a new contributor and the return of monthly Scottish Entertainment / Actor News updates (SEAN). These new SEAN articles will be sourced by devoted David Tennant fan Helygen, and will keep us informed of all the gossip from our favourite Scottish actors in Hollywood and everywhere else.
- Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Song of Return Song of Return feature former members of now defunct Glasgow electro outfit Union of Knives. Having been unceremoniously dropped by Relentless Records, Craig Grant and Chris Gordon regrouped and have crafted an album that more than equals anything that Union of Knives ever recorded. Having been freed from the shackles of their label, they have […]
- Indelible Ink: Robin Jenkins’ ‘The Changeling’ When we think of modern Scottish literature it is usually accepted that we are considering writing from the 1970s to the present day. However, there are writers who spoil that neat picture, writers who were being published in the 1950s and 60s and continued to produce new work into the latter decades of the 20th […]
- Dear Scotland is 2 years old today. Since June 1, 2009 we have published 890 articles about Scotland and the talented people who give us reasons to be proud of our country and ourselves. But a lot has changed in two years.
