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07/01/19
Learn how some lucky Scottish brides found their stylish wedding dress despite wartime rationing
07/01/19
Learn more about Muriel Spark and other Scottish authors born in 1918
15/06/18
Discover Glasgow through Maps and Plans spanning 250 years on ScotlandsPeople
13/06/18
More than 2,400 maps, plans and drawings have been added to the ScotlandsPeople site
23/01/18
Explore Scotland as you search for your ancestors.
19/01/18
Newly-discovered letters shed light on Robert Burns’ family, Excise career and radical political opinions
10/01/18
Learn about the lives of Alberto Morrocco, Anna MacLeod and Hugh Malcolm - all born in 1917
10/01/18
Read about the weddings of three allied servicemen in Scotland in 1942
10/01/18
Discover the lives of the operatic soprano Mary Garden and Plant Hunter George Sherriff