This deed recording a transaction relating to property in Torbrex near Stirling is unusual for a number of reasons. First, it relates to a time of great change in Scottish […]
In 1935, as part of the Silver Jubilee celebrations for King George V, the Boy Scout Movement created a great chain of 1,775 bonfires and beacons running from one end […]
The University of Stirling was founded by Royal Charter in 1967. This was the first new university in Scotland since the University of Edinburgh was founded in 1582. In 1964 […]
Nestled in the countryside of western Stirlingshire lies Scotland’s only lake: The Lake of Menteith. This lake, however, had once been a loch. In the Blaeu’s ‘Atlas of Scotland’, published […]
The cholera epidemic of 1831-1832 hit the country hard. Arriving in North East Britain as part of a European pandemic, the outbreak would spread though Scottish towns and cities. The […]
This register and others like it held at the Archives give some of the most detailed information that you can find about people living in the past. The Poor Law […]
The Beggar’s Benison, or to give it it’s full title ‘The Most Ancient and Puissant Order of the Beggar’s Benison and Merryland, Anstruther’ was a secret gentlemen’s club that flourished […]
Stirling Council Archives holds a collection of alien registration cards from Stirlingshire Constabulary, 1916 – 1952. Any individual who resided in the UK and did not meet the criteria to […]
The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (“Argylls”) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. Stirling Castle was the home of the Argylls and was where new recruits received their training. […]
The first census in Scotland was carried out in 1801 and this only contained statistical information (occasionally some parishes listed names). The 1841 Census was the first time every parish […]
