Shedding a light on slavery – a lesser-known chapter in Angus history

Angus Archives is thrilled to announce that they’ve successfully secured funding of £14,700 from Museums Galleries Scotland for a significant project that will shed light a lesser-known chapter of Angus’s history, uncovering links to the legacy of slavery. The Archives department holds unique documents from the Langlands family, whose 18th-century plantations in Jamaica were run…

Discovery of shared ancestry with J.M. Barrie

Angus Archives were able to work on a fascinating family history enquiry last week, as visitors from Canada discovered shared ancestry with JM Barrie. Mary Doig and Peter Redder, who were visiting from Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, made a significant breakthrough in their research when they visited Angus Archives. Trying to find out more…

Commemorating the Forfar Witch Trials with Witch Week

To commemorate the Forfar Witch Trials, ANGUSalive are hosting Witch Week from Monday 23 – Sunday 29 September 2024. The Forfar Witch Trials took place between 1661-1663 and involved 42 local people who were imprisoned and tortured on suspicion of witchcraft. 22 women were found guilty of the crime and executed over the three-year period.…

Funding boost for Montrose Natural History project

ANGUSalive Museums and Galleries are delighted to announce they have been awarded £12,804 from Museums Galleries Scotland to fund their Natural History, Living World project. This project will support a Collections Technician who will help digitise natural history objects by adding them to a collection management database which will be available online for researchers. The…

Arthurian legend discovered in Angus

ANGUSalive recently made an exciting discovery in an Arbroath Abbey register held within their Archives. A scrap of recycled vellum, which was used to bind the volume, was found to contain text in medieval French. It was noticed the text included the word ‘Merlin’, which led Angus Archives to believe this may have been part…

ANGUSalive’s Annual Report 2022/23: Museums, Galleries & Archives Case Study

ANGUSalive’s Annual Report 2022/23 takes a look at a fascinating story about the Forfar Witches Story! In Angus, we have a rich heritage of stories and storytelling, but few stories go as deep at the tale of the Forfar Witches. The Forfar Witch Trials took place between 1661-1663 and involved 42 of the town’s people…