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The first case involving the recovery of enslaved people in Scotland occurred in 1756

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Slavery and Scotland

The second case to reach the Court of Session featured David Spens (or Spence), a black enslaved man, and his master, Dr Davi...

Part of:
Slavery and Scotland

In 1921 Madge Easton Anderson was the first woman in Britain to qualify as a solicitor.

Evelyn Carey's glass plate negatives give a unique account of the Forth Bridge construction.

The statue of the Duke of Wellington outside Register House was unveiled in a highly patriotic ceremony on 18 June 1852.

For two nights in March 1941, Luftwaffe bombers raided Clydeside.

The case that continues to intrigue researchers more than a century after the murder of Miss Marion Gilchrist.

6 September 2015 marked the opening of the new Borders Railway.

The remarkable history of the island archipelago of St Kilda and its hardy inhabitants is extensively documented in papers he...

Directly outside General Register House, Edinburgh, sits the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington. It gives the Nation...