local history
Exploring mysterious earth house hidden in a field near Coupar Angus
February 4 2024
Edith’s story: Dundee research uncovers 100-year-old tale of teen admitted to asylum that became Liff Hospital
May 25 2022
2 ‘Women’s walk’ map of suffragettes, ‘witches’ and pioneers set to showcase female history in Perth
January 17 2022
‘Known Inebriates’ book shows the characters barred from Dundee’s pubs in early 1900s
August 21 2020
The incredible story of the ‘Pitmiddle ring’ – one of the last remnants of Tayside’s lost village
April 11 2020
FROM THE ARCHIVES: When food prices rose in Dundee in 1816, rioting mobs took to the streets
April 7 2020
Theft, robbery and prostitution as Dundee city fairs became vortices of sin in Victorian times
March 28 2020
‘We grew regardless of God and man’: Letters offer rare insight into mind of Angus child killer
March 27 2020
The Sma’ Glen Mystery: Tayside coachman’s strange death and the potential killers who were never found
March 27 2020
The story of the Graham Gang that ran rampage across Perthshire and Fife
March 26 2020
‘Obnoxious public functionaries’: The ‘debased’ hangmen of Perth would often take a kicking from locals
March 26 2020
When Dundee fishermen blamed city ‘witch’ for poor fortunes, they carried out exorcism
March 25 2020
A bona fide cure for baldness, discovered in 1903, and shared with readers across Tayside and Fife
March 25 2020
Five days at sea for Arbroath men who couldn’t handle a boat…and accidentally sailed to Isle of May
March 24 2020
Why the terrifying death of Perth spaewife Black Jean has struck terror into hearts for centuries
March 23 2020
FROM THE ARCHIVES: ‘Begging, bullying and stealing’ in Blairgowrie as ‘scum’ arrived for berry-picking season
March 19 2020
LONG READ: ‘Soon there will be nothing left’ – The sad story of Tayside’s ghost village
December 7 2019
Map shows most deadly World War II air attacks by Nazis on Tayside and Fife
October 17 2019
Piece of Dundee history, around a century old, unearthed during work on Brook Street coffee shop
June 26 2019
The paedophile Catholic priest who became the darling of Dundee’s Orange Order
May 13 2019
5,000 deaths in just 6 months…but love and compassion reigned in Dundee’s poorest districts during cholera outbreaks
April 24 2019
The woman who may or may not have killed her sister – and why her Forfar hanging was a sorrowful affair
April 10 2019
Mugshots of Victorian Scottish criminals, taken at Perth prison, to go on display for first time
February 13 2019
‘A disgrace to civilisation’ – When the bothies of Tayside and Fife were so cold men’s trousers froze solid
January 9 2019