Doors Open Days 2020
Doors Open Days 2020
This digital exhibition was curated as part of Digital Doors Open Days 2020. It features a variety of records from our archive chosen by NRS staff on the theme of ‘staff favourites’. Click on an image to zoom in and view it in detail.
Please contact us for any enquiries regarding the content of this exhibition.
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CH12/16/43/7 Intricate decoupage of a thistle surmounted by a crown |
GD100/317A/9 The Order of the Thistle |
HH21/48/3 William Porter, prisoner |
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HH30/1/1/6 Archibald Brown Naysmith's Military Appeal Tribunal Papers |
JC21/1/2 Treason Trials: Commission of oyer and terminer |
JC26/1913/90 Back to the Torture Chamber! |
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RHP6082/2 General Register House, Princes Street: Morton-Baldwin design for Register Offices: Ground floor plan |
SC70/8/921/34/6 Will of 202253 Private Thomas Walker, 2nd Bn., King's Own Scottish Borderers, formerly 2305 Royal Scots |
UCS1/118/736/2378 The whistler |
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685/1/990/124 Old Parish Death Register |
SP13/7 The Declaration of Arbroath |
SP6/31 Treaty of Perpetual Peace between England and Scotland |
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E31/6 Itemised account book from the royal household 1534/1535 |
MET1/8/1/82/21 Ben Nevis Observatory - life at 4,400 feet |
GD483/26/2 Soldiers of the Blackwatch (Royal Highlanders) in front of the Great Pyramid and sphinx |
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RH13/78 Embroidered religious book |
BR/FOR/4/34/223 The Forth Bridge |
HH15/20/1/6 Oscar Slater |
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GD45/26/48 Scotichronicon |
UCS128/7 RMS Lusitania on the slipway of John Brown & Co, Clydebank while under construction |
CE57/4/50 Whisky label |
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GD58/21/2/28 Painting a post box |
GD430/179 Royal Pardon for Treachery |
GD1/1011/16 Stabilising vats, HM Munitions Factory, Gretna |
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The first capture of the Scottish Government website |
JC2/19/295 Trial against Thomas Aitkenhead, student of divinity, for blasphemy |
SP13/210 The Articles of Union |