• Programme
  • Music
    • An Evening with JJ Gilmour
    • Creativity and Social Change
    • Mull Historical Society
    • Young People's Band Night
    • The Future of the Music Industry
  • History
    • An Incredibly Brief History of Political Satire
    • A Stitch in Time
    • An Audience with History
    • Scottish Political Thought
    • The Attempted Restoration: Wallace's Support of King John, 1299-1302
    • Sir William Wallace, Scotland and the wider world
    • Creating a Community, Cabinet of Curiosity
  • Arts
    • Sounds, Voices and the Parliament (10:30-12:30)
    • SCOTLAND - is there a THERE here?
    • Art in Focus - George Wyllie
    • Linking Scotland to Europe Through Arts
    • Sounds, Voices and the Parliament (13:30-15:30)
    • Literary Legacies: The House that Canongate Built
    • Scotland's Bookshelf - Politics and Society in Scottish Writing
    • Preserving our Culture, Shaping our Future?
    • What Place for Poetry in Politics?
  • Theatre
    • Singin I'm No a Billy He's a Tim
    • The Walking Theatre Company - S'Misa Macbeth (11:00-12:30)
    • Scottish Youth Theatre - The Magic Porridge Pot
    • The Walking Theatre Company - S'Misa Macbeth (13:30-15:00)
  • Young People
    • The Talent of our Young People
    • Is participation in sport a level playing field?
    • The importance of reading to children and to society
    • Untangling article 31 - Children's Right to Play, Culture and the Arts
    • Young People's Day
  • Politics
    • Scottish Irish Conversations on Sectarianism
    • Libraries in the Digital Age
    • Scotch Whisky - Local Hero or International Ambassador?
    • What has been the most creative force in Scottish Politics?
    • Making the Law Work for You - How Would You Improve the Justice System?
    • The Power of Small Nations
    • Inventors, Innovation and Sustainability
    • Scotland's Futures Forum - The Campbell Christie Lecture
    • UK-Russian Relations Today
  • People
    • Humanising the Workplace
    • Scotland's Missing Wood Cabins
    • Viva Cunninghame Graham! Global Scot, political radical, writer's writer
    • Who are 'Jock Tamson's Bairns'? - Attitudes Towards Migration in Scotland
    • NGOs Against Modern-Day Slavery
    • The Sounds of Silence - Complacent Scotland, Undemocracy and Unspace
  • Tours
    • The Scottish Parliament: Scotland's Story
    • Sculpture and Parliament Garden Tour
• Exhibitions
• Media
• Sponsorship
  • Festival Partners
• Links
• Contact & Information

An Audience with History asks what are Scotland's key historical moments? Who has shaped the country we know today? From the swing plough to Dolly the sheep, we debate the most important events in Scottish history, with leading historians and the team behind the Great Tapestry of Scotland.

Make a 'stitch in time', with the Great Tapestry of Scotland, one of the country's biggest ever community arts projects. Add a stitch and become part of history.

Can the satirists influence real change and how far can/should satire go? Join us to debate the issue in An incredibly Brief history of Political Satire.

Our unique exhibition Special Delivery: The William Wallace Letters will give you an opportunity to view the only remaining letters to have a known link to William Wallace. You may also wish to attend associated events The Attempted Restoration - Wallace's support of King John 1299-1302 or Sir William Wallace and the wider World. Quiz our panel of experts about Wallace and the momentous decades for Scotland around 1286 to 1306. See the Scottish Parliament website for further information on the William Wallace exhibition.