Waste water purification in the Stirling Council area
October’s Document of the Month focusses on a less glamorous topic as part of our series of posts to mark Scotland’s second Year of Coasts and Waters. Although the disposal […]
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The Radical Uprising – 6th April 1820
There are two letters dated 6th April in the Murray of Polmaise family papers. The first, is from Captain Peter Speirs to Major William Murray and is interesting because it […]
Thomas Graham’s Diary – 21st September 1939
Thomas begins this entry by writing that Neville Chamberlain gave a somber speech regarding events in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Hitler had not given any reference to the dead men and […]
Thomas Graham’s Diary – 5th & 6th September 1939
Continuing from his previous diary entry, Thomas starts to describe how A.R.P and billeting are being implemented at Rednock House. We already know from previous entries that Thomas is unhappy […]
Thomas Graham’s Diary – 9th & 10th April 1939
‘I simply could NOT read this book. It is like a peculiarly dull sermon’. In his next entry, Thomas spends his Easter weekend reading ‘Mein Kampf’. In 1925, Adolf Hitler […]