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News article: Scottish Handwriting resource
07/05/2024
The Scottish Handwriting resource has a new home on Scotland's People.
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News Article: ‘Light out of Darkness’, Coal Board statutory working plans released
11/04/2024
Explore over 4,800 plans created between 1955 and 1989.
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Our Records: Dorothy Dunnett (née Halliday) OBE (1923-2001), novelist and artist
18/01/2024
The historical novelist was one of the greatest Scottish writers of the twentieth century.
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Our records: The spy who came in from Collesie
18/01/2024
We look at the fantastical life story of Victor Kaledin, who married in Scotland in 1948
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Our Records: Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
18/01/2024
The Scottish pioneer of radar technology
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Our Records: John Beugo, engraver (1759-1841)
15/11/2023
One of the leading Scottish engravers of his day
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News Article: Scottish Women's Land Army records released
09/11/2023
New ScotlandsPeople record release relating to the Scottish Women's Land Army and Timber Corps
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Our Records: the Scottish Women's Land Army
09/11/2023
Individual profiles of members of Scottish Women’s Land Army and Timber Corps
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Our Records: James Braidwood, ‘Father of the British Fire Service’
07/09/2023
The Scotsman who established the fire service that we recognise today