The sinking of H M Yacht Iolaire, 1 January 1919
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- 01 November 2024
The curious story of the imprisoned Lerwick Post Office workers
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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
The statue of the Duke of Wellington outside Register House was unveiled in a highly patriotic ceremony on 18 June 1852.
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- 01 January 0001
Evelyn Carey's glass plate negatives give a unique account of the Forth Bridge construction.
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- 01 January 0001
On May 2025 we commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day
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- 01 January 0001
In 1921 Madge Easton Anderson was the first woman in Britain to qualify as a solicitor.
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- 01 January 0001
