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  • 21 May
    Blog Post

    Art UK: Art Detectives identify Hamilton Macallum painting location.

    The Public Catalogue Foundation now known as Art UK has, over the past ten years photographed 210,000 publicly owned oil paintings from 3,000 collections in

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  • 14 May

    Stirling Annual Charities Week, 1938

    The 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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  • 07 May
    Stirling Stories

    The Bruce by John Barbour

    The 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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  • 30 Apr
    Stirling Stories

    Robert the Bruce

    The 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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  • Events Stirling Stories

    Bannockburns, Robert Crawford

    There 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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  • 28 Apr

    Stirlingshire Draughts Association Trophy

    The 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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  • 28 Apr
    Stirling Stories

    Norman McLaren – A Dream of Stirling

    Norman 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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  • 28 Apr
    Stirling Stories

    Mary Saunders, The Woman who saved the Stirling Smith

    This 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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  • 28 Apr
    Collections

    Walking the Marches

    From 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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