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Detail from the death entry for His Royal Highness, The Duke of Kent.
Featured article Our Records: The Duke of Kent

The Prince killed in a tragic airplane crash in the north of Scotland.

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A detail from a newspaper article with the headline 'wedding day.'
Our Records: The Borrowed Wedding Dress
07/01/19

Learn how some lucky Scottish brides found their stylish wedding dress despite wartime rationing

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A detail from the birth entry of Muriel Camberg
Our Records: Muriel Spark and Scottish births in 1918
07/01/19

Learn more about Muriel Spark and other Scottish authors born in 1918

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Detail from a plan of Duke Street Prison, 1880, RHP6570
Our Records: Glasgow in Maps and Plans
15/06/18

Discover Glasgow through Maps and Plans spanning 250 years on ScotlandsPeople 

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Detail from a plan of the Carron River from Carron works to Grangemouth, 1797
News Article: Maps and Plans Release
13/06/18

More than 2,400 maps, plans and drawings have been added to the ScotlandsPeople site

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Detail of Scottish landscape
Discover Scotland and its history
23/01/18

Explore Scotland as you search for your ancestors.

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Detail from a letter by John Mitchell concerning the estate of Robert Burns and listing Burns' children's names and ages.
News Article: Robert Burns: Radical Exciseman exhibition
19/01/18

Newly-discovered letters shed light on Robert Burns’ family, Excise career and radical political opinions

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Detail of Alberto Morrocco's painting 'Tay Bridge from Newport'. Copyright the Estate of Alberto Morrocco. Image courtesy of The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Our Records: Born in 1917 - An Artist, A Scientist and A War Hero
10/01/18

Learn about the lives of Alberto Morrocco, Anna MacLeod and Hugh Malcolm - all born in 1917

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Photograph of the wedding of Sergeant Pilot Keith Johnston and Elizabeth Smith 27 July 1942
Our Records: Marriages to Norwegian, Polish and Canadian servicemen 1942
10/01/18

Read about the weddings of three allied servicemen in Scotland in 1942

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Detail of a photograph of Mary Garden in a role at the Theatre National de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris
Our Records: The Operatic Soprano and The Plant Hunter
10/01/18

Discover the lives of the operatic soprano Mary Garden and Plant Hunter George Sherriff

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