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 […]
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 […]
There is a mystery surrounding this small volume, deposited with the Council Archives as part of the collection of records from Dunblane Cathedral. It is not at all clear who […]
This huge, printed plan was commissioned by the Cunningham Graham family of Gartmore and shows the extent of their estate in the mid 19th century. Before the Ordnance Survey undertook […]
John Murray, of the Murray family of Polmaise Estate near Stirling, was just 23 when he left for The Crimea on 24th November 1854. Murray received his commission as Lieutenant […]
This deed recording a transaction relating to property in Torbrex near Stirling is unusual for a number of reasons. First, it relates to a time of great change in Scottish […]
In 1935, as part of the Silver Jubilee celebrations for King George V, the Boy Scout Movement created a great chain of 1,775 bonfires and beacons running from one end […]
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 […]
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 […]
