A 700-year-old letter believed to have once been in the possession of William Wallace has returned to Scotland.
The letter has been held in England since being discovered in the Tower of London in the 1830s. It is now on long-term loan to the National Records of Scotland after an agreement was reached with The National Archives in Kew. Continue reading
A rare copy of the Declaration of Arbroath has been gifted to the US National Archives by the Culture and External Affairs Secretary. In recognition of the historical connections between the American Declaration of Independence and Scotland’s most treasured document, a limited edition print of the Declaration of Arbroath was today presented by Fiona Hyslop on a visit to the National Archives in Washington, DC.
In 1998, the US Senate passed a Resolution designating every April 6 as Tartan Day in the United States, recognising the links between these two cherished documents. Continue reading