Heritage Stories is a growing collection of podcasts and short(ish) reads celebrating the places and people who shaped our local community. From notable local figures to the everyday folks who make our community what it is, each story highlights the people and places whose lives, achievements, and histories shape our shared heritage.
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Each month we release a new podcast with fascinating tales of Aberdeenshire - history, folklore, authors and more
Discover the story of Caroline Phillips, Aberdeen journalist and committed suffragette who helped bring the campaign for women’s votes to the NorthEast.
Learn more about the infamous author from Strichen, whose books were eventually banned from the local library.
Discover the legacy of George MacDonald, the renowned Huntlyborn author whose imagination shaped some of the earliest works of modern fantasy.
Influential and innovative novelist and poet George MacDonald was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
A substantial and important collection of his writings, the majority in manuscript and many showing significant differences from the published version, was gifted to the Huntly Library. The original manuscript items from the collection are located at Aberdeenshire Museums, Mintlaw, where they may be consulted by appointment.
The North East of Scotland has a rich ballad and folk song tradition and many of these songs mention specific areas, rivers, towns, villages and farms. Hundreds of these songs were gathered and transcribed by Gavin Greig and the Reverend James Bruce Duncan in the early years of the 20th century creating what is now known as the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection.
