News & stories from Edinburgh's award-winning walking tour company

Scottish International Storytelling Festival - Giving History a Damn Good Telling

28 October 2014

After explaining the grisly punishments meted out to ‘criminals’ at the Mercat...

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Unsavoury Hobby

11 August 2014

In 1823 a certain John Forrest, a graduate physician practising in Stirling and former pupil of...

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"Marriage or death" she cried "remember whose daughter I am"

14 July 2014

We start in 1689 with the gruesome execution of John Chiesley.  A relative of Lord Ravenswood...

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The Doctor Will See You Now...

28 March 2014

One of my favourite stories is that of the serial killers Burke and Hare. Recently, I’ve...

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Romance is not dead...even when you're dead!

14 February 2013

Who says love and romance needs to end with your last breath! There are quite a few ghosts haunting...

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The Stewart Trap...

25 June 2012

Most people in Scotland look to the Stewarts (or the Stuarts as they later chose to spell it) as the...

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