We look into the NRS' archives to find out more about Scotland’s efforts in previous World Cup tournaments.
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- 05 June 2026
Tracing poets Mary MacPherson and Robert Garioch through the archives of the National Records of Scotland.
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- 07 May 2026
Jessie Chrystal Macmillan was a woman of firsts: the first woman to graduate from the University of Edinburgh with a degree i...
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- 07 May 2026
The Bell Rock is the world’s oldest working sea-washed lighthouse.
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- 06 May 2026
This February, we're marking LGBT+ History Month Scotland, using our rich collection of archival material, to tell the forgot...
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- 09 May 2025
The Battle of Jutland was fought from 31 May to 1 June 1916 between British and German naval forces.
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- 01 November 2024
Examining records of the work of women in the First World War
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- 01 November 2024
In 2014 a secret agent’s spy kit went on display for the first time at National Records of Scotland (NRS) in an exhibition ab...
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- 03 November 2014
2025 marks the 250th anniversary of General Register House. An ever-present landmark in Edinburgh’s New Town on Princes Stree...
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- 01 January 0001
Her Late Majesty the Queen was bound to Scotland by ties of ancestry, affection and duty.
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- 01 January 0001
Directly outside General Register House, Edinburgh, sits the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington. It gives the Nation...
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- 01 January 0001
The remarkable history of the island archipelago of St Kilda and its hardy inhabitants is extensively documented in papers he...
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- 01 January 0001
6 September 2015 marked the opening of the new Borders Railway.
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- 01 January 0001
The case that continues to intrigue researchers more than a century after the murder of Miss Marion Gilchrist.
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- 01 January 0001
For two nights in March 1941, Luftwaffe bombers raided Clydeside.
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- 01 January 0001
