The Latest Breaking News from Robert Louis Stevenson

High jewellery is given a literary twist in Van Cleef & Arpels' new Treasure Island-inspired collection

Van Cleef & Arpels look to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure story for a high jewellery collection in three parts

Wallpaper · Nov 24, 2024

Free Robert Louis Stevenson exhibit opens in Scottish city

A NEW exhibition showcasing the later years of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life will be unveiled in Edinburgh this week ...

The National (Scotland) · Nov 6, 2024

This Victorian-Era Technology Is Still Astonishingly Accurate At Capturing Weather

The Stevenson screen remained remarkably effective at providing accurate and continuous measurements for more than 150 years.

Inverse · Aug 25, 2024

Doctor Jekyll review – risible horror leaves Eddie Izzard no place to Hyde

Joe Stephenson’s updating of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella is a double dose of embarrassment

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2023

Europe’s oldest student newspaper saved from closure

More than £3,000 raised to keep the Student – founded in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson at Edinburgh University – going

The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2023

Jekyll and Hyde review – Shakespearean style shows another side to Stevenson thriller

Bard in the Botanics stages Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic novella as a tense three-way struggle that asks big questions about human nature

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2023

Discovering France's most beautiful hiking paths

Of the 370 long-distance hiking paths that criss-cross the French countryside, some in particular stand out. In Finistère, on the Atlantic, the Chemin du Pouldu merges with the Brittany coast. Its contrasts of green and blue have inspired many artists, such as French painter Paul Gauguin. Down in the Cévennes,…

France 24 · Apr 20, 2023

Kidnapped review – tantalising glimpses of Robert Louis Stevenson’s wife

Older, American and previously divorced, Frances Stevenson frames the National Theatre of Scotland’s pantomime-inspired recasting of the novelist’s adventure classic

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2023

Echoes of Robert Louis Stevenson still heard throughout Samoa

THE modern approach to Samoa is a direct flight from Brisbane, although it is worthwhile stopping off for a couple of hours in that unsung and…

The National (Scotland) · Apr 16, 2023

Woke the plank! Were pirate ships actually beacons of diversity and democracy?

They’ve been portrayed as toothless, wooden-legged cut-throats. But a new exhibition in Cornwall shows there were queer pirates, female pirates, pirates of colour – and they all got a vote (and an equal share of the grog)

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2023