Family and local history

Following on from Louise’s post about Company magazines, the Library also holds collections of regimental magazines from the 1890s onwards. They contain a mixture of material: obituaries, sports successes, regimental history, appointments and discharges – and photographs! The one shown is from ‘The Borderers’ Chronicle’, the quarterly journal of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers (now part of the Royal Regiment of Scotland), and dates from June 1926. It shows the 1st King’s Own Scottish Borderers’ Association XI in their winning 1925-1926 season, where they lifted the Scottish Command and Logan Cups (foreground of the photo).

Our index of published memorial inscriptions has now been updated to early July 2012. Several new publications received during the last half year have been added. Next update to this list is due in December 2012. You can also check our holdings on our online catalogue, using +monumental +inscriptions +scotland as a keyword search on the simple search screen. This should bring up all of the Library’s holdings.

The library’s newest web feature has gone live. The digitised Scottish Post Office directories for 1773 to 1911 is now fully searchable. You can search by place, name and year, as well as viewing complete books in PDF format. The original adverts from these directories have also been digitised, including this image from the 1905 Glasgow Post Office Directory.

There is also a really interesting ‘Did you know’ feature, which provides information on subjects as diverse as shipping, telephones and dentistry.