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A man in a kilt swinging a flaming fireball on a wire handle. A traditional ceremony held in Stonehaven on New Year's Eve
  • Thursday 25 September 2025
  • Online
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level:
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Scottish Traditional Folk Customs

Learn more about Scottish Folk Customs in this archives talk.

A painting of a ship at sea in very choppy waters
  • Friday 26 September 2025
  • Trinity House
  • Walks and Guided Tours
  • Technical Level:
  • HES
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Weather at Sea

Get your sea legs as we journey through the history of weather at Trinity House!

Re-enactors dressed as Romans outside Kinneil House
  • Saturday 27 September 2025
  • Kinneil House
  • Free Weekend/Open Days
  • Technical Level:
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Roman Doors Open Day

Come and view Kinneil House within a Roman encampment alongside medieval re-enactors and other family activities

Exterior view of a tower surrounded by lush green grass, blue skies and trees
  • Saturday 27 September 2025
  • Clackmannan Tower
  • Walks and Guided Tours
  • Technical Level:
  • Architecture
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Doors Open Day at Clackmannan Tower

A chance to enjoy a tour of the interior of the 14th Century Clackmannan Tower

Two children examining a brick on a table
  • Saturday 27 September 2025
  • Engine Shed
  • Free Weekend/Open Days
  • Technical Level: Least technical
  • Architecture
  • Family friendly
  • HES, Engine Shed
  • Feature weight: 0

Doors Open Day at the Engine Shed

Join us to explore Scotland’s dedicated building conservation centre in Stirling.

A volunteer holding bunting which visitors have sewn
  • Saturday 27 September 2025
  • Stanley Mills
  • Living History
  • Technical Level:
  • Music
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Music & Craft Celebration

A vibrant day of music and traditional crafts at Stanley Mills.

Two people looking at artefacts in a red painted room
  • Sunday 28 September 2025
  • Trinity House
  • Walks and Guided Tours
  • Technical Level:
  • Architecture
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Doors Open Day at Trinity House

As part of Edinburgh Doors Open Day Weekend and Maths Week Scotland, Trinity House will be throwing open its doors and welcoming you to this wonderful gem of Leith.

Hands of two people looking at an item in Trinity House
  • Selected dates until Friday 24 October 2025
  • Trinity House
  • Walks and Guided Tours
  • Technical Level:
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Maritime Leith's Black History

Join us on a tour of Trinity House to celebrate Black History Month.

An old looking industrial building in a neglected state, taken from just outside the open doorway. The brickwork is stained with some windows boarded up, and others broken. Weeds and small trees are growing on the grounds.
  • Tuesday 7 October 2025
  • Engine Shed
  • Lecture
  • Technical Level: Quite technical
  • Building Management, Materials, Architecture
  • Enthusiast, Professional
  • HES, Engine Shed, Learn
  • Feature weight: 0

An Introduction to Building Conservation

We will introduce you to the essential principles of building conservation in Scotland.

Hand-powered grindstones that ground oats, barley, wheat and pease
  • On until Saturday 11 October 2025
  • New Abbey Corn Mill
  • Living History
  • Technical Level:
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

World Porridge Day

Celebration of World Porridge Day

A Historic Scotland Ranger talking to two people by a loch with a palace in the background
  • Saturday 11 October 2025
  • Linlithgow Palace
  • Community Event
  • Technical Level:
  • Nature, Ranger Service
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Linlithgow Peel Litter Pick

Take action for nature with a litter pick and Ranger-led walk at Linlithgow Peel

Four re-enactors, three of them wearing floral crowns and gold facemasks, and enticing you towards them with their hands
  • Selected dates until Saturday 1 November 2025
  • Edinburgh Castle
  • Walks and Guided Tours
  • Technical Level:
  • Halloween, Campaign: A Little History
  • HES, Edinburgh Castle
  • Feature weight: 0

Whispers of the past

Come along this Halloween and join a ghoulish guide for a tour through some of the darker stories and places from Edinburgh Castle's History

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