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May 14, 2018 · 100 years of Scotland in pictures. A collection of more than 14,000 photographs capturing a century of life in Scotland is to go on public display. The pictures date from the earliest days of...
Mar 8, 2024 · In Pictures: The lives of women in Scotland over the decades. To mark International Women’s Day, STV News looks back at Scottish women working, campaigning, raising families and having...
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Sep 8, 2024 · The photographs show women in the everyday on a Scottish island who carry quietly with them stories that have remain untold. Now, the images held by the An Iodhlann historical centre on...
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May 14, 2018 · 100 years of Scotland in pictures. A collection of more than 14,000 photographs capturing a century of life in Scotland is to go on public display. The pictures date from the earliest days...
Take the quiz to find out which woman in Scottish history you are. Discover the dramatic stories and significant achievements of Scotland’s well-known women, alongside the unsung heroines who quietly shaped the country we know today.
Over 300,000 photographs exist in collections at the National Library of Scotland, dating from the 1840s to the present day. Mostly the photographs are part of the Archives and Manuscript collections, but others are held in our collections of maps, rare books and music, and in general collections and the Moving Image Archive.
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Women in early modern Scotland, between the Renaissance of the early sixteenth century and the beginnings of industrialisation in the mid-eighteenth century, were part of a patriarchal society, though the enforcement of this social order was not absolute in all aspects.
