The University of Stirling
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 […]
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. […]
Emigration from Scotland boomed in the 19th Century with an estimated 2 million Scots leaving the country between 1821 and 1915. For many researching their family history, emigration can prove […]
Within the MacGregor of MacGregor collection are two papers of national significance by pioneering Geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison: ‘A Geological Sketch-Map of the North of Scotland, with Letter-Press Explanation’ […]
The design of this housing represents a huge improvement on the accommodation that many Stirling citizens lived in prior to this. Although these buildings appear old fashioned to us now, […]