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Stirling Annual Charities Week, 1938
Read moreThe invasion of 11 May 1938 had nothing to do with Europe. Apparently the invaders, who arrived in a canoe at Stirling Harbour, came from
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The Bruce by John Barbour
Read moreThe Declaration of Arbroath, sent by the barons and nobles of Scotland to the Pope on 6 April 1320, was a document which underlined the
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Robert the Bruce
Read moreThe Bannockburn 700 exhibition at the Stirling Smith looks at how Bannockburn has been remembered and memorialised over the past 700 years. The royal victor,
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Bannockburns, Robert Crawford
Read moreThere are many interpretations of Bannockburn. Sir Walter Scott’s epic poem, The Lord of the Isles, published in 1815, is one of many literary works
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Stirlingshire Draughts Association Trophy
Read moreThe Stirling Smith is well known as the home of the world’s oldest curling stone (1511), football (1540), early golf clubs and balls, and specialist
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Norman McLaren – A Dream of Stirling
Read moreNorman McLaren, the award-winning animated filmmaker, was born at 21 Albert Place, Stirling, opposite the Stirling Smith on 11 April 1914. Using material from the
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Mary Saunders, The Woman who saved the Stirling Smith
Read moreThis charming family portrait is one of seven works bequeathed to the Stirling Smith by Mrs Mary Saunders (1924-2012). It is by the eminent Glasgow
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Walking the Marches
Read moreFrom the beginning of recorded time, the Provost and officials of Scottish burghs have walked the burgh boundary once a year, checking that the march
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The Young Artists – James Robert Wallace Orr (1907-1992)
Read moreJames Robert Wallace Orr (1907-1992) was a well-known Scottish artist who trained at the Glasgow School of Art, 1929-33. Apart from war service with the
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