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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in History Scotland Sept - Oct 2021.
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Subscribers, are you getting the most out of your History Scotland membership? Sign up for our newsletter at http://scot.sh/join21 The much-anticipated digital kirk session records release from Nati...
MEET THE CONTRIBUTORS
Dr David Alston Born and brought up in the highlands of Scotland, Dr David Alston is a freelance historian who has spent 20 years researching the role of highland Scots in the slave-worke...
Chronicle of Fortingall secured for the nation
The document includes a chronicle, written in Latin and Scots, recording the deaths of prominent men and women in the highlands from 1390 to 1579
The manuscript was compiled by scribes bet...
Dunkirk Little Ship finds a permanent home
The proposed £3m Spirit of Skylark Centre will be a permanent base for Skylark IX, which is listed on the National Historic Ships Register and believed to be one of only two ‘Dunkirk little ships’ f...