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The Music of the Great War
Read moreThe Stirling 100 exhibition, featuring the histories of 100 men from Stirling who fought and died in the Great War, finishes on Remembrance Sunday at
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Verge of a Dubhlochan, William Aitken (1828-1981)
Read moreThis painting by William Aitken (1828-1981) is in the Stirling Smith collections. It was painted in 1958 and purchased by the Trustees at an
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Forthbank Carpet Works, 1934 – Industrial Stirling
Read moreToday’s story takes a look at Stirling’s lost industrial past and the workforce of the Forthbank Carpet Works. The workers are mainly women who were
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The Fellah from Kinneh
Read moreOctober is Black History Month, and today’s image is one of the three surviving portraits of black men by Thomas Stuart Smith, artist and founder
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William Gear (1915 – 1997)
Read moreWilliam Gear was the son of a coal miner from Methil in Fife, where he grew up. He attended Edinburgh College of Art, 1932 –
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Loch Earn from the East, McNeil MacLeay, (1806 – 1883)
Read moreThe painting featured here is a recent purchase made possible by the Stirling Common Good Fund and the National Fund for Acquisitions. It is by
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Leaving for the Front, The Great War
Read moreThe photograph shows a scene in Stirling Station all too common a hundred years ago as battalion after battalion left Stirling, either for further training
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Poppies by William MacTaggart
Read moreAt present, the Stirling Smith mounts between 14 and 20 temporary exhibitions each year to attract return visits and maintain interest. The painting by the
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Stirling Bridge by Iona Leishman
Read more11 September is the 718th anniversary of the Battle of Stirling Bridge, the battle which William Wallace and Andrew de Moray won, against all the
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