Robert Barker's 1788 Panorama shows Edinburgh from Calton Hill.
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- 22 May 2025
On May 2025 we commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day
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- 15 May 2025
On 22 May 1915, a troop train carrying soldiers of the 1/7th Battalion Royal Scots crashed into a stationary local passenger ...
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- 15 May 2025
Scots held prisoner by the Germans during the First World War experienced what has been described as a ‘war behind the wire’.
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- 15 May 2025
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...
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- 15 May 2025
A pair of soldier’s identity tags are preserved among the Exchequer records (E861) in NRS
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- 15 May 2025
On 25 April 1915 the first Allied troops landed at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula.
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- 15 May 2025
This feature tells the stories of Scottish soldiers and units on the Somme front in France from early July until mid-November...
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- 15 May 2025
The Battle of the Somme was a mass allied offensive of the First World War by the British and French armies against the Germa...
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- 15 May 2025
The third case, the case of Joseph Knight, was the only one decided by the Court
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- 13 May 2025