700 Years of the Declaration of Arbroath, with Dr Alan Borthwick
The Declaration of Arbroath will be displayed at the National Museum of Scotland from 3 June this year, but you can find out more about it n...
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10 episodes1320-2020 – 700 Years of the Declaration of Arbroath, by Dr Alan Borthwick
6 April 2020 is the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath - perhaps the most famous and important of Scotland's historic document...
A Very Arduous Period – The Register Houses During WWI, with Dr Tristram Clarke
  In the last of our three World War One podcasts, NRS Head of Outreach Dr Tristram Clarke looks at the forgotten stories of the men wh...
Behind The Wire: Scottish POWs 1914-1918, with Dr Tristram Clarke
In this week's Open Book podcast Dr Tristram Clarke, Head of Outreach at NRS, looks in detail at the people, the items and the stories that...
“I Am What You Would Call Done” – Lynn Bruce & Olivia Howarth on the Scottish Pension Appeals Tribunal Records
We're now approaching the centenary of Armistice Day in 1918, so this seems like an appropriate time to take stock of the cost of World War...
No Vote, No Census – Ruth Boreham on the 1911 Census suffrage protests
  …I begged her not to interfere with me in the performance of my duty and told her I would listen only to her father, and that I would...
A Private Matter? Robert Burns, Agnes Maclehose & the Court of Session, by Professor Hector MacQueen
  We head back to the law courts this week for a nineteenth century court case with some surprisingly modern themes about privacy and t...
From Disorder to Order: Cataloguing the 19th Century Criminal Case Papers of the High Court of Justiciary, with Simon Johnson
  Have you ever wondered what an archivist does? In this week’s podcast, NRS archivist Simon Johnson opens up the case papers of Scotla...
Trailblazers: The world’s first football club, with John Hutchinson & Andy Mitchell
Long before there was an Edinburgh derby; before the offside rule and the Wembley Wizards or pies and Bovril there was the Football Club, fo...
St Kilda: The Edge of the World, with Dr Alison Rosie
  This is the third episode of Open Book, a Podcast by National Records of Scotland dedicated to preserving Scotland’s past, recording...