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  • aerial image showing concentration camp huts laid out in a grid format. In the top left corner a plume of smoke can be seen rising from the extermination camp.

    The Holocaust: Evidence from the Air

    27 January 2020,
    Aerial photography
  • A hand removes a lid from a box containing papers and papier mache items

    Awkward archives? Squeeze the day!

    22 January 2020,
    Archives
  • Painting of a large, old-fashioned sailing ship negotiating choppy waters

    Four Extraordinary Voyages from Scottish History

    10 January 2020,
    History, Year of Coasts and Waters
  • View of Blackness Castle with a clapper board in the foreground

    6 Historic Scotland sites that have become film stars

    10 January 2020,
    Visitors
  • Archive aerial view of factory chimneys emitting large plumes of whote smoke inot the sky above Grangemouth

    Shaped by Industry

    08 January 2020,
    Archives, Heritage
  • A castle shrouded in mist

    Castles, Crofthouses and Car Parks: A Year in Designations

    19 December 2019,
    Heritage
  • Tree decoration figurines wearing pink outfits placed in front of a Christmas tree

    The 12 Gifts of Christmas

    09 December 2019,
    Visitors
  • Engraving of the Asylum for the Industrial Blind. It's a Georgian building and parked in front is a sedan chair, carriage and pair of horses.

    Disability History Month: remembering four historic Scots

    05 December 2019,
    History
  • Children form a number 20 in the middle of a stone circle

    20 Years of World Heritage in Orkney

    03 December 2019,
    World Heritage
  • Archive image of a football match being played in Edinburgh in the 1950s

    Scotland’s Most Unique Sporting Buildings

    27 November 2019,
    Heritage
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