Knowledge base
Your Scottish Archives’ Knowledge Base contains information to help you find and use records which are usually held in local and community archives in Scotland. It is arranged into three sections: record types, record creators and topics.- Record types: describes the kind of information you will find in each record type and tells you where these record types can be found.
- Record creators: tells you about local authorities, organisations, corporations and other bodies which created the record types.
- Topics: gives you some contextual background to the many and diverse functions and activities of local record creators, to help you explore and interpret the record types.
- Airports
- Allotments
- Ancient Monuments & Listed Buildings
- Building Standards
- Burial
- Caravan Sites & Travellers’ Sites
- Care of children & young people
- Churches – Baptist churches
- Churches – Episcopalians in Scotland
- Churches – Methodists in Scotland
- Churches – Roman Catholics in Scotland
- Churches – Presbyterians in Scotland
- Civil Defence and Emergency Planning
- Cleansing and Refuse Disposal
- Coast Protection
- Control of diseases of animals
- Countryside
- Cremation
- Criminal Justice Services
- Days, Dates and Calendars
- Death and disposal of dead
- Education
- Electoral registration
- Emigration
- Employment of Young Persons
- Entertainment & Culture
- Ferries
- Film Production in Scotland
- Fire & Rescue Services
- Flood Prevention
- Food Labelling, Standards and Hygiene
- Further Education
- Graverobbing
- Harbours
- Higher education
- Hospitals and local health under the NHS
- Hospitals before the NHS
- Housing
- Industrial Promotion
- Justice – young offenders & children
- Leisure and Recreation
- Libraries
- Lighthouses
- Liquor Licensing
- Markets and Shop Hours
- Mental Health
- Money and Banking
- Museums and Galleries
- Nature conservation
- Parks
- Photography in Scotland
- Planning & Development Control
- Police Forces and Policing
- Poor Relief – Poor Law in Scotland 1579-1845
- Poor Relief – Poor Law in Scotland 1845-1948
- Poor Relief – Poorhouses in Scotland
- Poor relief – 1902 poorhouses
- Poor Relief and Welfare
- Prisoners – Civil debtors
- Prisoners – Prisoners of War in Scotland
- Prisoners – Prisoners with alcohol addiction
- Prisoners – Prisoners with mental disorders
- Prisoners and Prisons
- Prisons – Burgh tolbooths and early prisons
- Prisons – Prison reform and centralisation
- Prisons – The modern prison system
- Prisons – young people
- Property
- Public assistance & community care
- Public health
- Public Transport
- Record-keeping
- Registration of vital events
- River Purification
- Roads
- Sanitary Inspection/Environmental Health
- Scottish Cinemas
- Scottish Heraldry
- Scottish Judicial Sentences
- Slaughterhouses
- Social Work
- Sport
- Tourism
- Trading standards & Consumer Protection
- Utilities – Gas and Electricity Supply
- Vehicle Registration
- Voting Qualifications
- War Memorials
- Water & Sewage
- Weights & measures – origins
- Weights & measures – Scottish distance & area
- Weights & measures – Scottish dry capacity
- Weights & measures – Scottish liquid capacity
- Weights & measures – Scottish weight
- Witchcraft in Scotland
- Women’s Suffrage
- Youth Employment and Careers Service