IN FULL: My Place Scottish Civic Trust nominees from Argyll, Moray and Highlands
Iona, Kingussie, Rothes, Oban and Campbeltown have all been shortlisted for a prestigious community award.
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Communities becoming accidental custodians of the nation's heritage
With its asbestos roof, bland exterior, dirt floor and wooden pens, the old auction mart in the Sutherland village of Rogart seemed to have little…
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When marriage was a barrier to employment for women
Rockfield schoolteacher and pupils Photograph from the collections of Monmouth Museum © MonLife Heritage FOR the last of the photographs to mark Women’s History Month, this one is a tribute to all the women teachers past and present. The picture shows teacher, pupil teacher and pupils of Rockfield School near Monmouth in about 1900. Teaching was the career most open to women at the turn of the century, but even in the 1901 census only 8 per cent of women in occupations had a profession – and it was teachers who made up the majority. Women were still then not admitted to the church, law...
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