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Rosie Waine is the William Grant Foundation Research Fellow at the National Museum of Scotland. Here she writes how the Black Watch Museum & Castle collection contributed to the exhibition she has curated called Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland. Dramatic landscapes, Highland dress, bagpipe music and a profound martial culture are among some of … Read more
Kathleen Lyle, author of ‘Afore the Highlands: The Jacobites in Perth 1715-16’ is looking forward to speaking at our Words of War Book Festival which takes place on 21st and 22nd September 2019. Kathleen will be in conversation with Dr Paul Philippou talking about the Jacobite occupation of Perth on Sunday 22nd September at 1.30pm. … Read more
What an exciting couple of months we have had in the Museum with lots of interesting projects on the go. Some of these include, our Archive cataloguing project, the 1900-1929 digitalisation project, and Museum accreditation returns and planning our Summer Festival! One project you may find particularly interesting is our loans to the National Museums … Read more
Easter is nearly upon us so why not hop along to The Black Watch Castle and Museum for some cracking family fun! From Saturday 30th March to Monday 22nd April, come and egg-splore the museum galleries to discover where the colourful Easter eggs have been hidden. Find them all and win a chocolatey prize, yum … Read more
Today’s Roll of Honour commemorates those who died on the 11th November 1918 and also those who died as a consequence of the First World War in the days, weeks, months and years following the signing of the Armistice. We will remember them. Service Number Rank First Name Last Name Military Medal Battalion Date of … Read more
315081 Pte George Chesney Wield CORSON 13th Bn. formerly 4591 Scot. Horse. 10/11/1918 293210 Pte Thomas MARSHALL latterly 365629 Labour Corps. 10/11/1918 S/21139 Pte James William MEADOWCROFT 13th Bn. 10/11/1918 S/22455 Pte John SEATH 2nd Bn. 10/11/1918 S/23103 L Cpl John Crawford WYLIE 4/5th Bn. formerly 1958 T.R. Bn. 10/11/1918
10 Pte James ANDERSON 2nd Bn. 09/11/1918 S/5500 Pte William McAULAY 10th Bn. 09/11/1918 S/16560 Pte David SMITH 4/5th Bn. 09/11/1918
S/43593 Pte William DAVIDSON 8th Bn. 08/11/1918 315473 L Cpl Duncan DONALD 13th Bn. formerly 4451 Scot. Horse. 08/11/1918 315612 Pte John FERGUSON 13th Bn. formerly 5729 Scottish Horse. 08/11/1918 S/5818 L Sgt William NEIL 13th Bn. 08/11/1918
Over the past few months we have worked with the Charity Remembered to bring our own, ‘There But Not There’ installation to the Castle and Museum. This week we talked with Rowley Gregg, Director of Operations at Remembered to find out more about the charity’s work, the impact of the ‘There But Not There’ installations … Read more
S/17161 Pte Thomas McGill CAMPBELL 1st Bn. formerly 1444 Scot. Horse. 07/11/1918 315752 Pte James MacNICOL 13th Bn. formerly 3882 Scot. Horse. 07/11/1918 266450 Pte Archibald McPHERSON 6th Bn. 07/11/1918 S/22273 Pte Duncan STEWART 2nd Bn. 07/11/1918 S/15059 Pte Charles STURROCK 2nd Bn. 07/11/1918
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