Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 1922-1928
A very short diary entry finds Viola cover six years in three sentences! From the period of 1922-1928 Viola does not keep a regular update of her diary. She herself […]
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Explore Your Archives 2017 – School board and management committees
Today’s article for Explore Your Archive 2017 concerns school board and school management committee records. If you are interested in researching the history of local education in a particular area […]
Explore Your Archives 2017 – School admission and withdrawal registers
School admission and withdrawal registers are considered one of the most useful records for family historians. They provide specific details of new pupils entering a school along with personal details […]
Explore Your Archives 2017 – School log books
Our first feature for Explore Your Archives 2017 is a focus on school log books. A log book is an administrative record that schools were obliged to keep under the […]
Explore Your Archives 2017 – Introduction to school records
Hello and welcome to our introduction page for Explore Your Archives 2017! Explore Your Archives is an annual campaign that showcases the best of archives and archive services in the […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: List of birds seen on the Gargunnock Estate, 1922
At the end of her diary entries for 1922, Viola wrote a list of the birds that the Gargunnock Estate Gamekeeper and his son claimed to have seen on the […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 20th August – 21st September 1922
Viola is catching up with diary entries between August and September 1922. This coincides with the shooting season; there was evidently regular shooting on the Gargunnock Estate at this time. […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary – 12 August 1922
As we continue through August, Viola observes a meeting of two very different animals: the wren and brown rat. Viola witnessed the actions of six fledgling wrens in her previous […]
Letter, Elizabeth Murray to her brother, Lieutenant Colonel John Murray, 1st – 8th November 1855
This letter is one of the many that members of the Murray family wrote to John when he was serving at Sevastopol in the Crimean War. It is held at […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 8th August 1922
In Viola’s next diary entry she encounters a wren with six fledglings. Wrens are one of our smallest and most distinctive native birds. They are very round in shape and […]