We begin Scotland’s Year of Architecture, Innovation and Design, 2016, with a Document of the Month from the Stirling Burgh Dean of Guild collection. In January 1910, Stirling’s Provost, David […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stirling has the oldest Protocol Book in Scotland in its Archives, an unparalleled record of late mediaeval life in the central Scotland area. A Protocol Book is the record of […]
