- Published
- 01 January 0001
The second case to reach the Court of Session featured David Spens (or Spence), a black enslaved man, and his master, Dr Davi...
- Published
- 01 January 0001
The first case involving the recovery of enslaved people in Scotland occurred in 1756
- Published
- 01 January 0001
The third case, the case of Joseph Knight, was the only one decided by the Court
- Published
- 01 January 0001
How the life story of George Dale, enslaved man, helped the Abolition cause
- Published
- 01 January 0001
The Battle of the Somme was a mass allied offensive of the First World War by the British and French armies against the Germa...
- Published
- 01 January 0001
This feature tells the stories of Scottish soldiers and units on the Somme front in France from early July until mid-November...
- Published
- 01 January 0001
On 25 April 1915 the first Allied troops landed at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula.
- Published
- 01 January 0001
A pair of soldier’s identity tags are preserved among the Exchequer records (E861) in NRS
- Published
- 01 January 0001
On 21 March 1918, some 6,500 German guns and 3,500 heavy mortars opened up a five-hour barrage against the British on the Wes...
- Published
- 01 January 0001
Scots held prisoner by the Germans during the First World War experienced what has been described as a ‘war behind the wire’.
- Published
- 01 January 0001
On 22 May 1915, a troop train carrying soldiers of the 1/7th Battalion Royal Scots crashed into a stationary local passenger ...
- Published
- 01 January 0001
In a decisive sea battle near the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914, the British Navy defeated German forces.
- Published
- 01 January 0001
