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  • 13 Nov

    Scottish Silver

    Some of the best contemporary silver made in Scotland is currently on show in the Silver of the Stars exhibition in the Stirling Smith, sponsored

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  • 05 Nov
    Blog Post

    The Music of the Great War

    The 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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  • 31 Oct
    Blog Post

    Verge of a Dubhlochan, William Aitken (1828-1981)

      This 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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  • 27 Oct

    Forthbank Carpet Works, 1934 – Industrial Stirling

    Today’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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  • 27 Oct
    Blog Post

    The Fellah from Kinneh

    October 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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  • 26 Oct
    Blog Post

    William Gear (1915 – 1997)

    William 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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  • 01 Oct
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    Loch Earn from the East, McNeil MacLeay, (1806 – 1883)

    The 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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  • 23 Sep

    Leaving for the Front, The Great War

    The 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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  • 17 Sep

    Poppies by William MacTaggart

    At 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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