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Our Records: The Longhope Lifeboat Tragedy
06/01/2020
In March 1969 a lifeboat crew answered a distress call. They never returned.
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Our Records: Double Wedding Celebrations
06/01/2020
The stories of sisters who chose to get married on the same day.
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Our Records: Letters from the First World War
22/06/2017
A mother visits her dying soldier son
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Our Records: Scottish soldiers' wills from D-Day 1944
17/08/2016
Wills of men who fought and fell during the Normandy invasion, 6 June 1944.
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Our Records: Scottish Soldiers' wills - Arnhem and Market Garden 1944
16/08/2016
New light on Scottish troops during Market Garden, the Allied operation in September 1944.
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Scotland's History: The Tay Bridge Disaster
15/08/2016
At approximately 7.15pm on 28 December 1879 the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed
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Our Records: Irregular Marriage in Scotland
10/08/2016
The irregular marriages of a Japanese whisky pioneer, a lion tamer and an actor.
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Scotland's History: Housing shale miners at Oakbank, Kirknewton
09/08/2016
Oakbank, West Lothian: an insight into a shale mining village
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Our Records: The Glasgow Poisoner
18/05/2016
Dr Edward Pritchard, the Glasgow Poisoner, who killed his wife and mother-in-law in 1865.