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                  Corporation of Glasgow Collection
                  The core Glasgow archive collections (ref: GB 243 / A-H) are those which document the rise of various public bodies in the city until many united under the banner of Glasgow Corporation (GC), the largest local authority in Scotland and, for a period, the largest city administration under one council in the UK.   From the […]
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                  MS 458 The Alexander Low collection
                  Most of us have some old family photos, letters or documents tucked away in a drawer or in the attic, but how many of us have over 20 boxes relating to eight families, dating back to 1723? Alexander JS Low did and decided to give them to us, University of Dundee Archive Services. The bonus […]
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                  Your Scottish Archives to be launched at SCA Annual Conference

                  The SCA Annual Conference on 10th December 2024, Building Evidence will explore how archives and records support engagement with, conservation of, and research into Scotland’s historic environment. The event will be structured around the three priority areas of Our Past, Our Future – The Strategy for Scotland’s Historic Environment: Delivering the transition to net zero Empowering resilient […]

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                  Call for Applications: A Year in the Life of a Community Archive 2025

                  Would you like to be archive of the year featured on the Scottish Council on Archives website?   It’s an opportunity to highlight the work that you do, all your activities, the challenges you face and the opportunities you capture. Take a look at this year’s archive that we have followed: the Museum of Scottish […]

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                  YSA is live!

                  The new Your Scottish Archives portal was launched on Tuesday 10th December 2024, at the SCA Annual Conference in Stirling. Your Scottish Archives is a unique project to gather and make available worldwide, through a dynamic online portal, catalogue descriptions from archives across Scotland, including local authority, health, business and community archives, and records of […]

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