Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland

Date: June 13, 2025

Start time: 16:30 BST

End time: 17:30 BST

Venue: Steps Theatre, Central Library, The Wellgate, Dundee DD1 1DB

Tickets: £5

You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. Perhaps they are marked by a tiny symbol on your map, perhaps not. There are no plaques to explain their fading presence before you, nothing to account for what they once were – who made them, lived in them or abandoned them. Now they are merged with the landscape. They are being reclaimed by nature. They are wild history.

Come and hear from James, acclaimed author and presenter of, Radio 4’s Take Four Books and BBC One’s Scotland from the Sky, as he introduces places all over the country, from the ruins of prehistoric forts and ancient, arcane burial sites, to abandoned bothies and boathouses, and the derelict traces of old, faded industry.

Chaired by Alistair Heather