LOTHIAN LIVES– SHOWCASING LOCAL COUNCIL ARCHIVES

 

v  Did you know that Edinburgh’s citizens were gripped by terror in the wake of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, and that the authorities began recording the movement of Edinburgh’s so-called “aliens”?

 

v  Did you know that aliens visited West Lothian again in the 1970’s, during the highest period of extra-terrestrial sightings in the UK’s history?

 

v  Did you know that the Midlothian Archives hold a Dalkeith Doctor’s travel diary written in the last phases of the British Raj? 

 

v  Did you know that one of the heroes of the 1854 ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ lived in Dunbar, East Lothian? 

 

The Lothian Lives project is a joint initiative of the City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian council archives. The project is part of a U.K. wide archives awareness campaign and aims to shine a light on the rich holdings of local council archive collections. Funded by the Scottish Council on Archives, the project is the first time council archives in Edinburgh and the Lothians have worked together to bring Scottish archives to life using the web.

 

For more information on the above stories and to discover lots more visit us at www.lothianlives.org.uk

 

 

Kind regards,

Frances

 

Frances Woodrow
Archivist

Library & Museum HQ
Dunbar Road
Haddington
EH41 3PJ

01620 828229


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