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Rare footage from the Scottish Screen Archive in a fascinating look at 20th century Scottish history.

This site is for all people whom are researching their descent from Royalty, particularly the Scottish Royal Families and their ancestors. Please feel free to use our query system to post your query to other researchers whom are dedicated to the ever so i

Search our free index to over 520,000 Scottish wills & testaments 1500-1901. If you are researching your family history, or have always wanted to

Offered by Cumbernauld College, includes Wallace and Bruce, the Jacobite rebellions and social and industrial changes in Scotland 1700 to 1850. Links to Scottish history sites.

The Badges, History and Uniforms of the Scottish Regiments.

Welcome to the Scottish Mining Museum

Aims to study the origins, function and development of urban centres through excavation, fieldwork and research. Services provided.

Details of the aims and activities of this organisation.

Evidence is presented for Skara Brae having been settled by Ancient Egyptian Priest Astronomers around 4000BC.

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Raising awareness of the need to preserve all aspects of the Stornoway’s early and most recent history.

Non-profit making organisation whose aims are to gather and share all aspects of our Scottish Highland history, Gaelic culture and customs from prehistory to the present.

The complete text from one of two 19th century books, written by Dr Ebenezer Henderson, detailing the history of Kinross-shire, from earliest times to the 19th century.

Detailed description of the carving and design of the reconstruction of the 'Hilton of Cadboll' Pictish stone- all 7 tons of it!

The garvellachs, in scottish gaelic: an garbh eileaicha, the 'rough islands' or isles of the sea are a chain of four small islands lying north of jura at the entrance to the firth of lorne

Historic details of Edinburgh city, the castle, famous festival and zoo.

The most comprehensive web based resource for information on the 1950 knockshinnoch colliery disaster. 129 men were trapped underground when a water logged field above the mine workings collapsed, causing gallons of liquid peat to flood the mine workings, cutting off all means of escape. 116 men were brought to the surface via the gas filled workings of an adjacent abandoned mine in one of the most dramatic rescues ever mounted. tragically 13 men who were working closest to the inrush were to loose their lives in the accident.

News and information on a Fifie Herring Drifter owned by the Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, a floating museum touring local waters.

SRPS, founded in 1961 to preserve and display Scotlands Railway heritage. Operator of the Boness & Kinneil Railway, SRPS Railtours, and the Scottish....

Photos and short videos of Glasgow, including the Necropolis, pubs, street scenes and the Clyde.

Tells the story of how the crowns of Scotland and England became united.