The Black Watch Volunteer Battalions: Archives & Origins

The Volunteer movement can tell us a great deal about British society and how it responded to external threats during the nineteenth century, and it also played a part in the developing identity of The Black Watch as a regiment. As Project Archivist at The Black Watch Castle and Museum, I have recently been cataloguing … Read more

Love poem from a First World War Soldier

The First World War archive at The Black Watch Castle and Museum holds a notebook that belonged to Private Ed Hall of The Black Watch, who served during the First World War. The notebook contains several poems, but this is a lovely poem, presumably composed with a wife or sweetheart back home in mind. We thought … Read more

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