Vote for your favourite 40th anniversary post
Over the last few months Stirling Council Archives has been celebrating their 40th anniversary by showcasing ’40 Items on our 40th Year’ in regular posts. At our upcoming Explore Your […]
40 items on our 40th year
Holy Rude Kirk Session minutes: golf on the Sabbath
CH2/1026/2 Stirling’s earliest written reference to golf. Holy Rude Kirk Session minutes, 30th January 1621 David Hart is recorded here being brought in front of the Stirling Kirk Session for […]
Wallace Monument Plans
Within the Stirling Burgh collection at Stirling Council Archives there are some very special architectural plans of the Wallace Monument. Recently conserved, the original plans by architect Thomas Rochead were […]
Oath of Allegiance to the Crown, 1734
This paper surviving from the 18th century gives a unique insight into the voting system before the reforms of 1832, anxieties relating to the Jacobites on the part of the […]
Disorder in the Kirk of the Holy Rude, Stirling, 1597
In this extract from the earliest surviving Kirk Session minutes for the Stirling area we can gain a glimpse of the often rather undisciplined behaviour of our forebears. First, in […]
City status granted to Stirling, 2002
Royal Warrant granted to the City of Stirling In 2001, a competition was launched by The Lord Chancellors Department to create Scotland’s sixth city. The competition was part of a […]
Battle of Bannockburn Celebrations, 1914 – 600th Anniversary
The Battle of Bannockburn remains one of the most significant events in Scottish history. In June 2014, the 700th anniversary was commemorated. The occasion was marked with large scale re-enactments, […]
“Murdered for the cause of Justice, Truth and Liberty…” Accounts relating to the execution of Baird and Hardie in Stirling, 8th September 1820
There is a small bundle of documents held at the Archives of letters and accounts relating to the arrangements made for the execution of two men who many at the […]
King James VIth of Scotland and the Witch
By 1597, King James VI of Scotland was something of an expert on witches and the occult. Since 1590, James had lived in fear of murderous attacks from those using […]
Great Fire of Glasgow, 1652
The Great Fire of Glasgow happened on the 17th June 1652, 14 years before the perhaps more famous conflagration in London but was no less devastating. The blaze began in […]