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Neil is a qualified archaeologist. His fieldwork has spanned the millennia – from Stone Age remains in Scotland to Second World War fortifications.

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A walk around... Dundee Featuring: audio, BBC

By Neil Oliver (Guest), The History of Scotland web team (The Open University)

23 November 2009

The jute industry brought Dundee great prosperity and a huge population explosion in the early part of the 20th Century, but when the industry died...  Read more : A walk around... Dundee

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A walk around... Glendale Featuring: audio, BBC

By Neil Oliver (Guest), The History of Scotland web team (The Open University)

16 November 2009

For most of the 19th Century, the crofters of Glendale were forced to live in dire circumstances by landlords who didn't want them there. Find...  Read more : A walk around... Glendale

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A walk around... Glasgow Featuring: audio, BBC

By Neil Oliver (Guest), The History of Scotland web team (The Open University)

09 November 2009

A roaring trade with the Americans and Europeans helped transform Glasgow from a nondescript, small town into a thriving metropolis with huge and expensive buildings....  Read more : A walk around... Glasgow

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A walk around... Stirling Castle Featuring: audio, BBC

By Neil Oliver (Guest), The History of Scotland web team (The Open University)

29 October 2009

By 1715, the Act of Union with England, enacted eight years earlier, had failed to yield any noticeable benefits for Scotland. Find out about the...  Read more : A walk around... Stirling Castle

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A walk around... Dunkeld Featuring: audio, BBC

By Neil Oliver (Guest), The History of Scotland web team (The Open University)

27 October 2009

Few battles changed the course of Scottish history as the Battle of Dunkeld did in 1689. Find out how and why it happened with the...  Read more : A walk around... Dunkeld

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A walk around... Edinburgh Featuring: audio, photos.com

By Neil Oliver (Guest), The History of Scotland web team (The Open University)

03 December 2008

Mary Queen of Scots left a trail of riots, affairs and murders in her wake - join Neil Oliver to follow that trail.  Read more : A walk around... Edinburgh

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A walk around... Finlaggan Featuring: audio, Production team

By Neil Oliver (Guest), The History of Scotland web team (The Open University)

26 November 2008

Join Neil Oliver as he searches out the Lords of the Isles at Finlaggan  Read more : A walk around... Finlaggan

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A walk around... Stirling Featuring: audio, Production team

By Neil Oliver (Guest), The History of Scotland web team (The Open University)

19 November 2008

Neil Oliver takes a journey through Stirling, the historic heartland of Scotland, in the company of experts Richard Oram and Fiona Watson  Read more : A walk around... Stirling

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A walk around... Dunfermline Featuring: audio, Production team

By Neil Oliver (Guest), The History of Scotland web team (The Open University)

14 November 2008

Join Neil Oliver and a team of experts as they tour Dunfermline in Fife, one of the best surviving medieval landscapes in Scotland  Read more : A walk around... Dunfermline

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A walk around... Scotland: Podcast series Featuring: audio, photos.com

By Neil Oliver (Guest), The History of Scotland web team (The Open University)

26 October 2008

Follow Neil Oliver as he explores Scotland's history - either listen in, or pull on your boots and do the walks for yourself.  Read more : A walk around... Scotland: Podcast series

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A walk around... Dundee

Comment posted by Faefife

09 Dec 2009

The buildings in Dundee have always fascinated me.This information is fascinating and is well presented. A great way to give information by using the internet in this way. Read more : A walk around... Dundee

A walk around... Dundee

Comment posted by Faefife

09 Dec 2009

Faefife has started a thread discussing Dundee audio walk. Read more : A walk around... Dundee

A walk around... Edinburgh

Comment posted by Prince

29 Jun 2009

According to everything I have read the majority of Scotland's monarchs are buried at Iona, some at Dunfermline Abbey and some at Holyrood Abbey. A door within the ruins of Holyrood Abbey simply says... Read more : A walk around... Edinburgh

A walk around... Edinburgh

Comment posted by mijera

19 Apr 2009

mijera has started a thread discussing Edinburgh audio walk. Read more : A walk around... Edinburgh

A walk around... Stirling

Comment posted by Robert Fleck

30 Jan 2009

As a child born of a Scottish father and English mother and raised in England I was told many stories on visits to my relatives living in and around the Sterlingshire area. The stories were always... Read more : A walk around... Stirling

A walk around... Finlaggan

Comment posted by johnofislay

03 Jan 2009

Not just an audio commentary but a programme in its own right. Grand to hear a real Ileach giving some of the commentary. Read more : A walk around... Finlaggan

A walk around... Finlaggan

Comment posted by johnofislay

03 Jan 2009

johnofislay has started a thread discussing Finlaggan audio walk. Read more : A walk around... Finlaggan

A walk around... Stirling

Comment posted by -=SBR=-TheBlackDouglas

08 Dec 2008

-=SBR=-TheBlackDouglas has started a thread discussing Stirling audio walk. Read more : A walk around... Stirling

A walk around... Kilmartin Glen

Comment posted by James

11 Nov 2008

Hi alecsmith. Thanks for letting us know. We've now fixed the error. Hope you enjoyed the article. Read more : A walk around... Kilmartin Glen

A walk around... Kilmartin Glen

Comment posted by alecsmith

10 Nov 2008

Neal Ascherson didnt say 'that when the ice melted water came from larkhall to the north, it was Loch Awe, noticed the mistake in the text version of the podcast about Kilmartin. I come from Larkhall... Read more : A walk around... Kilmartin Glen

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Neil is a qualified archaeologist. His fieldwork has spanned the millennia – from Stone Age remains in Scotland to Second World War fortifications. If it's been buried in the ground during the last 10,000 years, Neil's dug it up!
Neil presents Coast and was your guide for The Open University's walks round Scotland.

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