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Thanks to the late Donald Dewar, there is nothing to stop the Scottish Parliament holding a consultative referendum

The ‘godsend for nationalists’ that was supposed to kill off independence

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Back in the Day: The Scot who lived and died for Jewish children

SNP stalwart still going strong 25 years after being dubbed a 'mid-term protest'

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Let’s hope history repeats itself after this crisis

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Hundreds of pipers around the world to pay tribute to 'the forgotten Dunkirk'

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The capture, trial and execution of Nazi stooge Lord Haw-Haw

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Historic Environment Scotland does not object to Culloden holiday park plan

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Operation Dynamo: Why the Dunkirk miracle was not just down to luck

NTS to fight plans to build holiday lodges on Culloden Moor

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Back in the Day: Botanist who changed the face of Scotland

Back in the Day: The disaster that devastated a community

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Letters

Teachers will not be returning to work in August – they’re still at work now

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Behind the capture of one of Adolf Hitler's closest allies

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Letters

If we got rid of National Trust for Scotland – what would we replace it with?

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Letters

Scottish Government should do more to protect the real history of Scotland

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Letters

The National's comment piece too easy on Oliver and National Trust for Scotland

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Unlike our noble heritage, NTS does not seem worthy of preservation

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Scottish doctor found first human coronavirus case in 1960s

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Call to remember Scots and the ‘forgotten Dunkirk’

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Pipers urged to pay tribute on 80th anniversary of 'forgotten Dunkirk'

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Back in the Day: David Octavius Hill, Scotland’s 19th-century photoshopper

Letters

Can Neil Oliver solve the National Trust for Scotland's problems?

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The truth behind Scotland's oil and the McCrone Report

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Why Florence Nightingale deserves every tribute that will soon come her way

George Galloway brands The National 'deeply sick' over Union flag story

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Welsh Labour MP faces criticism for Union-flag-waving VE Day performance

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Anniversary of bombs that 'failed to destroy morale of Clydebank people'

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BBC slammed for 'jingoistic' portrayal of Boris Johnson in new show

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Letters

Kilts, like all of Scottish culture, are ridiculed by British nationalists

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Greatest Scot? The many talents of Dr Elsie Inglis

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Gerry Hassan: Britain's obsession with the past comes at a cost

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The 19th century nurse who overcame the obstacles to be lauded for her work

Tragedy of the prison ships sunk by the RAF – 75 years on

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Was it really an Englishman who invented the kilt?

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History

Life During Wartime: Evacuees, wingless planes and a very mysterious wall …

Live streams set to tell tale of The Battle of Killiecrankie

Back in the Day: The ‘Nightingale’ hospitals of the two world wars

Looking back on the death of a dictator 75 years ago today

LETTERS

Sherricked and inspired in equal measure by radical Wendy Wood

LETTERS

Letters: Getting back to the roots of the SNP’s history

The Scots-Jamaican nurse who cared for British soldiers during the Crimean War

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Letters

Crowds would gather in Edinburgh to hear the great Wendy Wood

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Looking back on the day Hitler lost the Second World War in his bunker

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Life During Wartime: Nissen huts, Humbers and a very fast Packard

STV pieces together plan to bring The Jigsaw Murders to the small screen

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How Scotland can honour the legacy of heroic nurses like Louisa Jordan

Wendy Wood: A Scottish patriot to her very core

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The history of the Scottish independence movement: The birth of the SNP

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James Ferguson: The poor lad who became an 18th-century phenomenon

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This Mau Mau leader must be given his rightful place in history

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How Samuel Johnson and James Macpherson popularised Gaelic poetry

Rare material released as Battle of Culloden commemoration moves online

Celebrating the life, vision and legacy of the Scot who mapped the world

Back in the Day: The Treaty that history, and the English, forgot

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