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National Records Office petition

Love from Indie Street

#HSSelfie competition

RNLI fundraiser

Art at Edinburgh Napier University

 

The Scottish Government has not exactly proposed closure of Register House at the East End of Princes Street, but it has been stated in a recent review that the building “does not feature in our long term plan”, and now nearly 5,000 people have signed the petition on change.org to persuade them to reverse that decision.

The Government also explained: “These plans include extending the current archive facility at Thomas Thomson House, with digitisation facilities and public search rooms to provide better customer access to physical records, securing modern office accommodation for our staff in the same area, and re-locating the West Register House archive to Thomas Thomson House.”

TER National Records Office

The reasons behind the petition are:

The recommended closure of this iconic building by the Scottish Government is a national outrage.

This purpose built archive is one of the oldest in the world and is an invaluable resource for the people of Scotland.

The proposed move to a storage facility in Sighthill will strip Edinburgh city centre of a building of national importance. This will also deny the many regular users of this service their freedom to view these important Scottish historical records.

Please sign this petition to stop an Edinburgh landmark from being closed and to protect the future of this invaluable resource for our generation and also for future generations to come.

 

What do you think? Should the Government close this building at some stage in the future?

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Historic Scotland have a competition running till next week. It is the #HSSelfie Competition.

To celebrate reaching 50,000 followers on the Historic Scotland Twitter account, @welovehistory, they are running a photo competition.

For full details of the competition click here! 

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RNLI Country Dance 4

The RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat Fundraising Branch Scottish Country Dance organised by the South Queensferry Scottish Country Dance Club attracted over one hundred and ten dancers from Fife, Lothians and Stirling at Queensferry High School, dancing to the music of the James Coutts Scottish Dance Band and raising over £790.00. for the RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat Station. Photos Hamish Campbell

RNLI Dance 1

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Edinburgh Napier University is the only Scottish venue for an art exhibition showcasing the best of the works which failed to make the final cut for the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.

The ‘best of the rest’ prints will go on display in Gallery D in the photography department at the Merchiston campus until May 7.

All staff, students, visitors and members of the public are welcome to the touring Portrait Salon exhibition. 

The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize is organised annually by the National Portrait Gallery in London, and was shown here in Edinburgh at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in spring 2014.

Portrait Salon was founded in response in 2011. Now in its fourth year, it showcases prints which were submitted to the Taylor Wessing, one of the most prestigious photography prizes in the world. A total of 70 portraits were selected for Portrait Salon from 1184 submissions.

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