Local and Community History Month 2024

Belhelvie is a country parish bounded by the sea directly north of Aberdeen. Before North Sea Oil, it was characterised by farming, fishing, quarrying, clary working and all the stock trades of rural life. In 1870 the parish was divided up into a baker's dozen estates, and despite some subsequent...

Peter Williamson was snatched from an Aberdeen quayside in 1740 and transported to the burgeoning American colonies to be sold into slavery. This is a true-life adventure of abduction, war and courtroom drama and an inspiring tale of courage, fortitude and one man's determination to survive again...

In Louise Fyfe’s attic lay a box marked DRACULA. After reading how Bram Stoker started writing the book in Cruden Bay, Scotland, she opened it... What a surprise lay inside – a long-forgotten collection of short stories written by her great-grandfather Adam Drummond, church minister in Cruden Bay...

Based in Ballater on Royal Deeside between June 1914 and December 1915, the novel recounts the great love between an exceptional young woman and Gavin Fraser, a Gordon Highlander.

Alexander Rule was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on the 21st September 1895. He died, aged 87, at the Cottage Hospital, Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland on the 4th of July 1983. "Yet another glorious day" is the most frequent description of the weather given by this eighteen-year Aberdeen U...

Abstract: This book tells the history of Boddam Castle, once owned by the Keiths of Ludquharn, and of sinister Slains Castle, said to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker's "Dracula". It is also the story of the six fishing villages which grew up in the shadow of the castles: Boddam, Buller o'Bucha...