The historical novelist was one of the greatest Scottish writers of the twentieth century.
Discover the lives of the operatic soprano Mary Garden and Plant Hunter George Sherriff

More than 233,000 newly-released Scottish records of births in 1917, marriages in 1942 and deaths

Learn about how we are improving forename searching in church registers, census returns and other records.
Discover some Christmassy names in our registers spanning the centuries
Discover what life was like at 4,400 feet for scientists at the Ben Nevis Observatory
Discover Scotland's authors within the 1935 valuation rolls
2.7 million names and addresses for owners and occupiers of properties in Scotland added to the site
The release of over 36,000 new baptism, marriage and death records from presbyterian churches
A mother visits her dying soldier son