Conference celebrates Scotland’s archives
Why Archives Matter: Heritage, Memory and Identity was the second in a series of conferences to promote the importance and usefulness of archives.
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Tag: Heritage
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Forces veterans wanted for heritage initiative
Poppyscotland is on the lookout for veterans from every conflict since 1939.
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Veterans are invited to visit old battlegrounds
Italian campaign soldiers offered free trips to Monte Cassino and other sites.
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Record-breaking year for Urquhart Castle
Urquhart Castle welcomed more than 500,000 visitors for the first time in a calendar year.
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Transcripts printed to commemorate sinking of Iolaire
The vessel was carrying home soldiers who fought in the First World War.
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Booklet chronicles how Argyll and Bute remembered
A booklet has been published to commemorate how Argyll and Bute residents remembered the First World War.
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Mull Theatre gives new life to historic coat
‘I came across a coat with a note attached saying it had belonged to Lorna MacEchern, the secretary to the Duke of Buccleuch.’
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Unsung forestry heroes to be recognised
Around 900 men made the perilous journey from British Honduras across the North Atlantic to a wintry Scotland.
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Highlanders feature in biographical dictionary
The latest update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was published last week.