At approximately 7.15pm on 28 December 1879 the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed

The irregular marriages of a Japanese whisky pioneer, a lion tamer and an actor.

Oakbank, West Lothian: an insight into a shale mining village

Dr Edward Pritchard, the Glasgow Poisoner, who killed his wife and mother-in-law in 1865.

Deaths of Scottish seafarers from late Victorian times until 1974, totalling over 14,000 records, are available to search.