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  • Tales of Prisoners at Blackness Castle

    06 May 2022, History, Scotland's Year of Stories
  • black and white photo showing the grad facade of Donaldson's School when it was first built. It's an impressive building in the Jacobean style with decorative towers and turrets.

    A short history of Donaldson’s School

    29 April 2022, Archives, History
  • Image of plaque at wall. The plaque reads: "Mary Burton 1819-1909 Social Reformer and Suffragist lived here"

    The Marvellous Mary Burton

    08 March 2022, History, Women's History
  • 19th century engraving depicting a rider on horseback crossing a bridge over the Water of Leith. Some other small figures walk along the banks of the river.

    The LGBT sex scandal of Edinburgh’s New Town

    28 February 2022, History, LGBT+ History, Women's History
  • A colourful carving in wood of Mary of Guise in a purple dress

    Convents, Courts and Coronations: How Mary of Guise Came to Scotland

    21 February 2022, History, Women's History
  • A section of a larger illustration showing a young lady leaping through the air

    Five Stories From Scotland’s Passionate Past

    11 February 2022, History, Scotland's Year of Stories
  • An illustration giving an artist's impression of Christina Bruce wearing a headdress, with the tower of Kildrummy Castle behind her

    Christina Bruce and Her Defence of Kildrummy Castle

    14 January 2022, History, Scotland's Year of Stories
  • Photo of a statue of a bearded man wearing a robe

    Who was St Andrew?

    13 December 2021, History, Young People
  • stained glass showing man with sword

    10 things about Sir William Wallace

    21 July 2021, History
  • An eye for an eye? Dundrennan Abbey carving might have a story to tell

    01 July 2021, Collections, Conservation, History
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