Robert Louis Stevenson

The Picts acquired a mystical reputation after their supposed disappearance (Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Last year, we celebrated the 250th anniversary of Robert Stevenson, the man credited with designing the majority of Scotland's lighthouses.

19 Beautiful Scottish Lighthouses built by the famous Robert Stevenson

Hearts midfielder Robert Snodgrass gave an honest appraisal of the team's recent performances. (Photo by Mark Scates / SNS Group)

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Ryan J Mackay and Malcolm Cumming will be playing Davie Balfour and Alan Breck Stewart in the forthcoming National Theatre of Scotland production of Kidnapped. Image: Laurence Winram

Kidnapped: Turning Stevenson's adventure into a new coming-of-age stage show

Annie Broadley's painting 'Bass Rock Gannets'

Deadly bird flu outbreak tests Bass Rock's artistic image as a beacon of hope

Treasure Island at Cumbernauld Theatre PIC: Mihaela Bodlovic

Ross MacKay on Treasure Island at the Lanternhouse, Cumbernauld

Actor, director and playwright Isobel McArthur and musician, sound designer and composer Michael John McCarthy are leading the creation of the new stage version of Kidnapped for the National Theatre of Scotland.

Kidnapped: Stevenson adventure to become 'coming-of-age rom com' for the stage

Ben Cruachan hydro electric power station in Argyll is one of many renewable energy schemes across Scotland that rely on its abundant water supplies. Picture: Jeff Mitchell/Getty Images

How climate change - and less water - is impacting Scotland

Scottish comic book legend Alan Grant has passed away. Pictue: Julie Bull

Tributes flood in for Scottish comic book writer Alan Grant

Bonnie Prince Charlie played by Andrew Glover in Outlander (Outlander Starz)

Outlander Season 6: Who is Bonnie Prince Charlie?

Savourna Stevenson and Steve Kettley

The Scotsman Sessions #310: Savourna Stevenson and Steve Kettley

If Edinburgh is supposed to put on an authentic Scottish Hogmanay, why are the revellers served gluhwein? (Picture: Danny Lawson/PA)

The Strange Case of Dr Edinburgh and Mr Hogmanay – Aidan Smith

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Henry Pettigrew and Lorn Macdonald in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Picture: Henry Home

Theatre review: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Leith Theatre

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is coming to Leith Theatre

Jekyll and Hyde: The strange case of the hybrid theatre show

Ground-breaking Jekyll and Hyde is coming to Leith Theatre

Leith Theatre to host historic ‘live filming’ of Jekyll & Hyde

The Stirling Marathon (Image Credit: Getty Images)

Ad Feature They key historic points of interest on the Stirling Marathon 2022 route

Robert Louis Stevenson PIC: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Robert Louis Stevenson's guide to Edinburgh's 'glories and absurdities'

Alicia McKenzie

The Scotsman Sessions #290: Alicia McKenzie

Seabird Centre

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Hyde

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Craig Russell

3: He saw it turning, twisting and shuddering, something sallow and fleshlike...

Craig Russell

Hyde, part two: The sound came again, a shuddering, ragged screech...

Craig Russell

Hyde, by Craig Russell, 1: Edward Hyde told Robert Louis Stevenson his tale...

Hyde, by Craig Russell

Edinburgh's 'Jekyll and Hyde' nature explored in gripping new novel

Craig Russell has won the McIlvanney Prize.

Craig Russell wins McIlvanney Prize

Alicia McKenzie in Jekyll and Hyde PIC: Rhys Watson

Theatre reviews: Jekyll And Hyde | Cailleach | Islander | Sophia

Elizabeth Robson was stunned to find the vintage book, which was published in 1905.

Rare vintage Robert Louis Stevenson book unearthed in house move

Fiddler Aidan O'Rourke. Photograph by Mihaela Bodlovic

Aidan O'Rourke: 'Edinburgh is at a turning point'

The Bass Rock is a sanctuary for gannets, hosting over 150,000 of them during peak breeding season (Photo: Lisa Ferguson).

Bass Rock: ‘One of the 12 wildlife wonders of the world’

John Harris, 62, and Helen Mason, 60, upped sticks from Norfolk to realise their dream.

Norfork couple take over remote Scots lighthouse

A walk through the Cammo Estate in Edinburgh

Watch: The best walks around Edinburgh - Cammo Estate

Sport has helped lift the mood in difficult times and a rare Scotland win in Wales in the Six Nations was a timely tonic. Picture: Ben Evans/Huw Evans/Shutterstock

Watching sport on TV has been therapeutic, helping many to ward off depression

The tours can be used virtually, at home, or on a self-guided, socially distanced walk in the footsteps of the young Stevenson, before he left the city of his birth at the age of 27, never to return.

Celebrate Robert Louis Stevenson’s 170th birthday on an audio tour of Edinburgh

Celebrate National Rum Day

Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who was born in Edinburgh

Unique Edinburgh tribute made for Robert Louis Stevenson

Mackenzie's tomb

‘Someone broke into the tomb and took Mackenzie’s head’

Why I love ... Treasure Island

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Fall in love with the top end of Edinburgh tenement living

B-Listed mansion house in Argyll and Bute hits the market

10 quotes about Scottish family

10 inspirational quotes about Scottish travel

The Declaration of Arbroath.

Scottish history timeline from 1054 to 2014

Robert Louis Stevenson: a pioneer of the written word

Opera review: Scottish Opera: The Devil Inside, Glasgow

Louise Welsh and Stuart MacRae combine for new Stevenson-inspired opera

It has to be all or nothing for Scotland in Ireland

Strange case of Edinburgh Jekyll and Hyde gardens

Lost Robert Louis Stevenson masterpiece discovered

Author unearths some eye-opening facts about Edinburgh streets

City taxi drivers ‘taking tour guide training’

Fans of Robert Louis Stevenson urged to celebrate author’s life and work

Archive begins new chapter on Stevenson’s life

Interview: Sir Andrew Motion, Writer and former Poet Laureate

The Scotsman Top Stories

Defeat for Labour in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West byelection would be a disaster for Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar's hopes of removing the Conservative government with Scottish help (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

SNP could lose 23 seats to Scottish Labour at next general election - analysis

Figures, obtained by the British Medical Association (BMA) and given exclusively to The Scotsman, show Scotland has lost around 100 GP surgeries over the last decade. Pic: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire

GP crisis laid bare as one in ten surgeries refusing to accept new patients

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson referred to police over new Covid rule breaking claims