I solemnly swear that I am up to no good! J.K. Rowling’s magnificent imagination conjured up the Marauder’s Map of Hogwarts Castle. This magical map is usually disguised as a blank piece of parchment, activated by the spell above. Once unlocked, the map reveals a detailed plan of Hogwarts, covered in named, moving dots which […]
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Walter Scott’s ‘Waverley’: Voices from the archives
We’re celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication of Walter Scott’s first novel, Waverley, with a free treasures display: Open now! Waverley is the only novel in the world which has a train station and a paddle steamer named after it, and the Scott Monument in Princes Street is the tallest monument in the world erected in memory […]