{"id":14486,"date":"2016-12-16T17:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14486"},"modified":"2016-12-16T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:13:15","slug":"scotlands-year-of-history-heritage-and-archaeology-2017-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14486","title":{"rendered":"Scotland\u2019s Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017 launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>On 7 December Scotland\u2019s Scotland\u2019s Culture Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop MSP launched Scotland\u2019s \u2018Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017\u2019 at Mary King\u2019s Close in Edinburgh.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Government writes:<\/p>\n<p>A Great Roman Bake-Off, large scale projections of Viking imagery, a live archaeological dig of St Kilda in Minecraft and a colourful international weaving festival are just a few of the events lined up to make history in 2017\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the programme (which includes both brand new events and new programmes within existing events) include a spectacular sound and light projection event at New Lanark World Heritage Site to bring to life the mill as it was in the heart of the Industrial Revolution (Shining Lives).\u00a0 The Heart of Neolithic Orkney will \u2018Glow in the ArchaeoDark\u2019 on World Heritage Day with interactive storytelling, music, food and glow-in-the-dark paint (Scotland in Six). And a unique event in the Outer Hebrides will celebrate the islands\u2019 rich South Asian history with music and art collaboration, exhibitions and performances (Purvai).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicenvironment.scot\/about-us\/news\/scotland-makes-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 December Scotland\u2019s Scotland\u2019s Culture Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop MSP launched Scotland\u2019s \u2018Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017\u2019 at Mary King\u2019s Close in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14487,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions\/14487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}