Christmas Lights Switch-on, Stirling District Council, 1988
The Document of the Month for December takes a look back to the festive celebrations of thirty-seven years ago. Stirling District Council held a celebration for the big lights switch […]
Stirling Council
Stirling 900 – Walking the Marches – the Registers of the Perambulation Court
The Burgh Council, comprised of the Provost, Bailies and Councillors, has been responsible for the maintenance of the boundaries of the Burgh since its creation in the twelfth century. This […]
Thomas Graham’s Diary – 8th August 1939
Graham focuses again on his personal experience of war from conflicts past, and shares a conversation he has had recently in which mental health is discussed and the idea of […]
Thomas Graham’s Diary – 6th August 1939
This entry discusses the mobilisation of millions of German troops near the Polish border, and Thomas’s pessimism regarding the outlook of events. By the end of the month, Hitler had […]
Thomas Graham’s Diary – 4th August 1939
Graham’s August entries open with a short one, which gets straight to the point. On the anniversary of Britain’s entry into World War One, only 25 years previously, Graham conveys […]
Thomas Graham’s Diary – 14th July 1939
This entry is quite different from those that we have focused on so far from Graham, with regards to the discussion being dominated by his own personal account of what […]
Thomas Graham’s Diary – 29th May 1939
This last diary entry for May 1939 mentions Graham’s newest read, “The End of Economic Man” by Peter F Drucker. The book is “a social and political effort to explain […]
Thomas Graham’s Diary – 20th May 1939
Graham continues to be wary of the Soviet Union and their intentions at a time when discussions were ongoing both among Britain, France and the Soviet Union and between the […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 31 Dec 1921
Viola’s final entry for the year 1921 is very short and concerns a hedgehog. She is at Gartinstarry again, which is just west of Buchlyvie and consists of farmland and […]
Stirling School Buildings 1926 – 1972
Architectural plans of schools are particularly interesting, as not only do they show the changing fashions in school architecture over the years, they also give evidence of educational developments and […]