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Posts from the ‘History & Nostalgia’ category

Taking a look at some of Britain’s past

Robert the Bruce

“In February 1306 two cousins embraced as they entered the Church of the Minorite Friars in Dumfries. Within minutes the veneer of friendship had slipped. As they stood deep in earnest conversation their voices began to rise. Rage boiled over. A dagger was drawn…” The story of how seven individuals got together to set up a visitor centre commemorating Scotland’s Hero King.

The 1901 census

“The complete 1901 census for England and Wales published on the Internet on 2 January has to be one of the most ambitious projects of its kind undertaken by the Public Records Office [PRO].” David Stockton writes about the 1901 Census and its publication on the World Wide Web.