Charity delivering arts, sport and learning in Glasgow
A profile of Ian Russell, the Aberdeen ethnology scholar who directed the Elphinstone Institute and championed traditional culture, while shaping regional and international connections through festivals and archives.
UK institutions are accelerating digitisation of herbarium and insect collections to enhance accessibility for research, bolster biodiversity records, and track climate-change effects. The projects connect major Scottish and English collections into national and UK-wide digital networks, enabling historical data to inform modern science.