This 16thc text contains descriptions of over 200 spas as well as collecting together the works of over 70 classical, Arabic and contemporary writers on the subject of bathing. This illustration shows visitors bathing, drinking and defecating at the spa

A map showing bomb damage to the town of #Greenock during intensive, deadly air raids on Clydeside and Ayrshire, on the nights of 6 and 7 May 1941.

Almost 300 people were killed and over a thousand injured.

This map shows the impact of sixty bombs over one small area.

#ThrowbackTuesday A great view from the top of Fingask Street captured by Dickson Park in 1996. You can see some of the @DundeeUni campus in the distance on the left. #Archives #Dundee #Dundee UniCulture

The Kinnaird Hall on Bank Street, c. 1963.

The Kinnaird Hall was a theatre and then converted into a cinema in 1919 as the owners felt they wouldn't be able to survive with the competition from the soon to be opened Caird Hall. #TuesdayTrivia

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#Dundee #Archives

Joining our Angus Og Symposium University of Glasgow on 29.05.2024 is Rosie Al-Mulla Archivist The Scottish Political Archive where they hold a series of cartoons produced by Ewen Bain for the Scots Independent Newspaper, we can't wait to hear more! ARA Scotland Scottish Archives

A view of Princes Street, Perth in 1956. Frew's Garage is on one corner and the Empire Bar is on the other.

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#ExploreYourArchive

Are you a community group that needs help establishing or maintaining your archive? We can offer help through our new project Community Stories – Community Archives. For more information and to get in touch head to: scottisharchives.org.uk/community-arch…

The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Our Scottish Handwriting tutorials provide free online tuition, helping you to decipher old Scottish handwriting from the years 1500-1700.

Very helpful for our older records!

Find out more 👇

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In May 1830 William Baird's 1st blast furnace at Gartsherrie #Coatbridge became operational

The world's 1st purpose-built furnace utilising the Hot Blast Process (still used today) to make pig iron, it wasn't demolished until 1896 culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/the-bair…

We'll be at this fantastic event, discussing the kinds of records we have in the NHS Forth Valley archive which you can use to research a nurse/midwife in your ancestry. All are welcome, no experience required!
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Looking forward to a verbal rummage through some fantastic political cartoons from our Scots Independent Archive! Looks to be a fantastic symposium!

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Postcard of the Day: The Head of the Glen, Glenfarg. No date.

📷 Local & Family History Collection, AK Bell Library

#ExploreYourArchive

It doesn't happen very often but last week's #mysteryphoto (no. 272) remains a mystery...

Hullo! Here is this week's #mysteryphoto (no. 273); if you recognise where it was taken, please get in touch. Thank you!

In 1957 two HMSO bindery staff came to the Library to repair the bindings of the 2 volumes of our copy of the Gutenberg bible. Their work was documented by some photographic slides. We're pleased to say that their work has stood the test of time:
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The RMS Lusitania was torpedoed on this day in 1915, turning American opinion against Germany and making the sinking a turning point of the war. We remember FP James L Ward who lost his life that day. He attended Hutchesons' Grammar from 1901 until 1903 before going on to do a MA

#ThrowbackTuesday View at the top of Park Place sometime in the 1980s. The Dental Tower is on the left and the back of the Fulton Building dominates the picture #Archives #Dundee #Dundee UniCulture

We really enjoyed welcoming Empower into our reading room last week! Thank you for coming!

The Improving Access Project Spring Symposium, taking place next week, will explore barriers to the heritage workforce and ways to improve access to it. Book a space here:
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Historic Environment Scotland

We've got lots of lovely exhibitions for you to view on our website. You can learn about medicine in the Victorian era, Glasgow's lost hospital, the world's first successful brain tumour operation (which took place in Glasgow!), and much more. heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/exhibits