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Audrey Sale-Barker is seen in the centre of the photograph in Murren, Switzerland, 1928. Credit: With kind permission of The Ladies’ Ski Club
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Our Records: Audrey Sale-Barker (1903-1994), British skiing champion and aviator

13/01/2025

Discover the life of Audrey Sale-Barker who married the Earl of Selkirk in 1949
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Gordon Smith (left) playing in a match against Partick Thistle at Easter Road. Credit: private collection.
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Our Records: Gordon Smith (1924-2004)

13/01/2025

To mark the release of the 1924 birth entries on Scotland's People we look at the life of footballer Gordon Smith
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Hen Harrier. Credit: Public Domain
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Our Records: Orcadian ornithologist Eddie Balfour (1908-1974)

13/01/2025

Pioneering ornithologist Eddie Balfour remembered
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Photograph of Rikki Fulton @ The Scotsman Publications Ltd
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Scotch & Wry comedian among 245,000 new birth entries online

10/01/2025

The birth entry of comedian Rikki Fulton is among 245,000 records newly released on Scotland's People.
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Two people sitting on a bench in the Archivist's Garden at the National Records of Scotland, smiling and looking through a book
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Birth, marriage and death records search tips

10/01/2025

Read our latest hints to help you search the records
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Donald MacSwan. Image shared with kind permission of Kenneth MacLennan
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Our Records: Dòmhnall MacSuain's Gaelic will

01/11/2024

The story of the man behind a soldier's Gaelic will in our archives
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Photograph of Appleton and Hernshaw from Barlinnie HMP records.
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Barlinnie prisoner photographs bring Scots eye-to-eye with our past

31/10/2024

New records added to our site
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Outside Barlinnie prison. Credit: Newsquest (Herald and Times)
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Our records: Inside Barlinnie, Scotland’s biggest prison

29/10/2024

We spend time inside the 'Big Hoose' HMP Barlinnie
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A photograph of the William Wallace letter from the National Archives
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See rare Wallace letter on St Andrew’s Day

29/10/2024

A 700 year old letter of recommendation from the King of France for William Wallace is going on public display in a National Records of Scotland building in Edinburgh on St Andrew's Day
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