26 February 2025
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Trove.Scot: new beta digitised collections of Scottish history and heritage online
With 1.2 million images from Scottish archives, 335,000 records of Scottish places, 55,200 designated historic sites in Scotland, and 2,000 historic culturally significant objects included, the new project funded by Historic Environment Scotland has an impressive beta launch
Trove.Scot brings together the unique and diverse collections of Historic Environment Scotland, from the Historic Environment Portal, Canmore, SCRAN and Property in Care Collections, into one convenient online location.
Detailed, comprehensive and relatively easy to use, Trove.Scot is aimed at both professionals in the heritage sector and those who simply love history. How might Trove.Scot help you, as a family historian? Explore the website, searching by placename or keyword, to find images of artefacts, places and records of relevant to your family history research. If you’d like to gain a better feel for your search potential, and learn about the massive body of historic material that has been collected over the past century, explore by theme: https://www.trove.scot/explore/archives
In addition to exploring the rich digitised collections, learn more about Scottish heritage management and discover answers to questions such as: ‘‘What are scheduled monuments and listed buildings?’, ‘How are places like historic gardens and battlefields recognised?’.
Trove.Scot is currently in Beta testing and feedback is very much welcomed from users.
https://www.trove.scot/
Thank you to Kerr Clement for drawing Trove.Scot to our attention
