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On 25 April 1915 the first Allied troops landed at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula.

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First World War

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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First World War

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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First World War

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...