Stirling 900 – People
The Document of the Month for January 2025 celebrates the people of the Stirling area. There is a tendency to focus on notable events when commemorating historical anniversaries, and these […]
The Document of the Month for January 2025 celebrates the people of the Stirling area. There is a tendency to focus on notable events when commemorating historical anniversaries, and these […]
With the arrival of the month of June, summer is finally upon us. In Scotland, this means the beginning of Highland Games season. Many communities across the country will be […]
Flooding in the Central Scotland Area, 18th January 1909 August’s Document of the Month features more records held at the Archives relating to our relationship with local waterways. In this […]
On August 4th 1938, Provost Liles of Callander Burgh handed over five silver brooches to Mr William Baird, Passenger Traffic Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway outside the Dreadnought Hotel. […]
These delightful photographs of a birthday party group are held at the Archives as part of the Archibald MacLaren photographic collection. It is not clear whether this photograph is of […]
Recording attendance levels and the reasons for non-attendance of pupils was a very important element in the keeping of the school log book. After the Education Act of 1872, it […]
The records of Callander Parochial Board give a remarkably complete history of the McLaren family who lived in Callander in the late 19th century. Isabella McLaren was a single mum […]
In our final blog post for Explore Your Archives 2017 we are going to highlight a selection of valuable records you might also find within our school collections. One of […]
They don’t do curling like this anymore! Our next Christmas Countdown record is a glass plate photograph of a game of Curling in the Easter Meadows, Callander, c. 1895, taken […]
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 […]