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Bracing ourselves to say goodbye to scran.ac.uk Thank you to all our followers, people we've worked with in-real-life & of course our website users for 25+years We've truly loved sharing our time & resources with every single one of you 📽️The Brave Don't Cry🎞️1952
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Bracing ourselves to say goodbye to scran.ac.uk Thank you to all our followers, people we've worked with in-real-life & of course our website users for 25+years We've truly loved sharing our time & resources with every single one of you 📽️The Brave Don't Cry🎞️1952
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Join us for 'Edinburgh in the 1920s' - Part of Lauriston Castle Lectures. Using archive material which documents aspects of 1920s Edinburgh, we'll take a tour on a charabanc to look at life in the city. Book: edinburghmuseums.org.uk/what…
Edinburgh Corporation fleet charabanc no.502 at Arthur's Seat in 1926 © Scottish Motor Museum Trust. Licensor

ALT Edinburgh Corporation fleet charabanc no.502 at Arthur's Seat in 1926 © Scottish Motor Museum Trust. Licensor

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Have you heard our news? We're going into retirement & as of 24 June 2025 Scran.ac.uk will be switched-off. You can find out more information here 👉historicenvironment.scot/abo…
Black and white archive picture of a retiral presentation. An older man is shaking hands with his boss, surrounded by co-workers in an old fashioned grocery shop in 1960.

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Have you heard our news? We're going into retirement & as of 24 June 2025 Scran.ac.uk will be switched-off. You can find out more information here 👉historicenvironment.scot/abo…
Black and white archive picture of a retiral presentation. An older man is shaking hands with his boss, surrounded by co-workers in an old fashioned grocery shop in 1960.

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Join us for our latest archives based talk, "The Legacy of Edinburgh's Victorian Swimming Baths" At Newington Library on Thursday 3 July 2025 at 1:30pm Don't forget your togs 🩲 for Drumsheugh, Glenogle, Infirmary Street, Portobello, Victoria & Warrender Public Baths
Old black and white photograph of Warrender Pool in Edinburgh, 1888.

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Join us for our latest archives based talk, "The Legacy of Edinburgh's Victorian Swimming Baths" At Newington Library on Thursday 3 July 2025 at 1:30pm Don't forget your togs 🩲 for Drumsheugh, Glenogle, Infirmary Street, Portobello, Victoria & Warrender Public Baths
Old black and white photograph of Warrender Pool in Edinburgh, 1888.

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Read our fascinating HES blog "The Sound of Friendship" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇳🎶👉blog.historicenvironment.sco…

A Musical Dialogue Between Scotland And China - Historic Environment Scotland Blog

The Scottish bagpipe and Chinese guzheng are not similar, but they can both play ‘Auld Lang Syne’, and with it, the same musical emotions.

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Read our fascinating HES blog "The Sound of Friendship" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇳🎶👉blog.historicenvironment.sco…

A Musical Dialogue Between Scotland And China - Historic Environment Scotland Blog

The Scottish bagpipe and Chinese guzheng are not similar, but they can both play ‘Auld Lang Syne’, and with it, the same musical emotions.

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Studies In Photography@studiesinphoto7 May 2025
SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES: Scotland's Urban Architecture Through the Lens A Studies in Photography conference, 20th May 2025, The Engine Shed, Stirling studiesinphotography.com/blo…
David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, The Scott Monument under Construction, 1843, Salted paper print, National Galleries of Scotland

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#Archive30 ~ #WhyArchives? We've said it before & we'll say it again again Archives are empowering - the past informs the present, providing context & often a sense of wellbeing @ARAScot Exemplified by this joyful 1950s Michael Peto 📸 @UoD_Archives_RM scran.ac.uk/database/record.…
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#WhyArchives ? They're a great way of seeing change over time, as in these four snapshots of our transport history. #Archive30
Black and white photograph showing a group of people and police officers standing around a horse drawn prisoner van, being driven by a police officer. 'V'.R' lettering on the van.

ALT Black and white photograph showing a group of people and police officers standing around a horse drawn prisoner van, being driven by a police officer. 'V'.R' lettering on the van.

Black and white photograph of an early car with a canvas roof and open sides. Number plate A209, which is still perpetuated on a vehicle in the Met's Historic Vehicle Collection (@MPHVC).

ALT Black and white photograph of an early car with a canvas roof and open sides. Number plate A209, which is still perpetuated on a vehicle in the Met's Historic Vehicle Collection (@MPHVC).

Black and white photograph of two 1933 police cars parked side by side, one showing its rear and the other its front. The rear view shows an attached spare wheel and a sign reading 'STOP POLICE'. The front view has a sign reading 'POLICE' in or on the windscreen.

ALT Black and white photograph of two 1933 police cars parked side by side, one showing its rear and the other its front. The rear view shows an attached spare wheel and a sign reading 'STOP POLICE'. The front view has a sign reading 'POLICE' in or on the windscreen.

Colour photograph of a blue and white police car with two female officers in the 1972-1985 'Surrey' uniform, one seated inside and the other standing outside with one hand on the open car door and the other hand holding a radio into which she is speaking.

ALT Colour photograph of a blue and white police car with two female officers in the 1972-1985 'Surrey' uniform, one seated inside and the other standing outside with one hand on the open car door and the other hand holding a radio into which she is speaking.

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#WhyArchives, well they are unique. We preserve the stories of people and places of the past, but also the present, so that we can remember and learn from them in the future. No two days, enquiries or records are the same. #Archive30
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A refreshing #MayDay tradition, at dawn wash your face in the dew on Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh 1969 © @Scot_Heritage
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The largest deposited #archivecollection we hold is the Dundee Harbour Trust Collection, most of which has been here since the 1970s. Not only does it contain dock arrivals but also plans, pilots licences, minutes, construction diaries and much more... Ref: GD/DH #Archive30
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Don't miss the 'Mid Century Modern: Putting Scotland on the Map' exhibition at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre. The exhibition looks at the international context that shaped the Mid-Century Modern architectural movement in Scotland. Find out more: ow.ly/Lcny50ULLWJ
Mid Century Modern, 6th February to 6th May, North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre

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Generally we don't take in many objects, but we'll make exceptions for small items, particularly if they are part of a collection. This medal and dog tag belonged to David Kidd. We are lucky to have some of his letters sent home from France in WW1. #ArchiveObject #Archive30 1/2
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Hey @moragduncan Here's a picture of Brian and me, taken outside our Rose St shop in the early '70s. A few others of me in 1969 just as we were opening it. Check the round sign outside the shop. We had to change it as it kept getting knocked down by Boots trucks mounting pavement
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#ArchiveEmporium brings music to our ears. 🎼 Brian & Bruce Findlay with an "I Found It At Bruce's" carrier bag pictured outside their record shop on Rose St. Edinburgh in 1969 & 1972. ow.ly/xL9250LReNN
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15 fascinating historical lectures to explore in the stunning setting of Lauriston Castle this year. More here: edinburghmuseums.org.uk/laur… #Edinburgh #ExploreEdinburgh #ForeverEdinburgh #castlesofscotland #scottishcastles
Lauriston Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland, on a sunny day with a blue sky and a Scottish flag waving above its traditional stone architecture.

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#Archive30 #SomethingSmall 🐑 Little Jane Arres looks unsure about being surrounded by lambs at Upper Nisbet Farm, Roxburghshire in 1964. 📷@NtlMuseumsScot ow.ly/BhY750Voezo
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