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In this week’s trip down West Fife’s Memory Lane we look at some old images of Pittencrieff Park. The first photograph shows gardeners working in front of the wooden conservatories (the present conservatories that we know today were built in 1973) that housed tropical plants. In former times this area was known as ‘The Laird's Garden’ as it was a kitchen garden and orchard providing fruit and vegetables for the nearby Pittencrieff House, which was erected around 1610 by Sir Alexander Clerk. An early mention of the Pittencrieff estate is as far back as 1291 when the proprietor ...

Rewriting colonial past through culture Bashabi Fraser was recently awarded one of the highest civilian honours of the UK in the New Years Honours list by the Queen, in recognition of her services to education and culture in Scotland. A chat with the Scottish-Bengali academic, writer and artist Debanjan Chakrabarti   |     |   Published 21.02.21, 06:14 AM First, huge congratulations on this w...

Palestinian singer, Faraj Suleiman, has released an album in collaboration with the novelist, and songwriter Majd Kayyal. Titled “ Better than Berlin,” the album was initially livestreamed on Facebook and then released on various platforms, including Soundcloud and Spotify. Its songs grapple with the conundrums that undergird the Palestinian realities in contemporary Haifa. It covers a wide range of topics from love, migration, the city, gentrification, marriage, to the “monster” that continuously reproduces the city. The album includes eleven songs, and though the wide majority of th...

Copy Whether as a retrospective, a collection of contemporary works, or a compilation of prospects for the future - and all the other possibilities in between -, architecture and urban planning exhibitions have played an important role in shaping the future of cities over the decades. These events are often open to the public, reaching many people who don't necessarily have a background in the field, thus providing great environments to explore a collective view of the future of architecture and cities. Architecture and urban planning exhibitions are historically relatively new, being consoli...

As we creep blinking out of our homes into a vaccine-enabled version of normality, some semblance of order should return to the world of arts and entertainment. In that spirit, and with the usual caveats, here are 21 reasons to look forward to 2021. Television Line Of Duty Filming on series six of the BBC’s blockbuster drama about a police anti-corruption was curtailed by the pandemic. It has now finished so it won’t be long before we’re once again gripped by questions both large (is Adrian Dunbar’s Superintendent Ted Hastings really H, the criminal mastermind the team have be...