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You don't need weapons if you have Soviet umbrellas made in Bulgaria and distributed by Romanian importers from warehouses in Russia.

#ColdWar #History #HistoricalResearch #Espionage #IntelligenceHistory #SecurityStudies #StrategicStudies #InternationalRelations #Geopolitics #EasternEurope #Bulgaria #Romania #Russia #SovietEra #TwentiethCentury #PoliticalHistory #EuropeanHistory #ArchivalResearch #HistoricalSources #IntelligenceStudies #DiplomaticHistory #HistoricalContext #StateSecurity #GlobalHistory #HistoricalAnalysis #ComparativeHistory #ContemporaryHistory #InternationalHistory #USSR #SovietUnion

Crikey. Just spotted that the Edinburgh General Session church records include an Edinburgh weather report for 1815-1820. Very detailed! National Records of Scotland volume CH2/131/2. Free to view online at ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk. #Edinburgh #Scotland #19thCentury #NineteenthCentury #Archive #Archives #HistoricalResearch #Weather #ScottishWeather #BritishWeather #Meteorology #ChurchRecords #Kirk #ChurchOfScotland #NRS #NationalRecordsOfScotland #History #ScottishHistory

Found Melrose kirk session minutes at ScotlandsPeople include lists of schoolmasters 1768-1854 parish by parish in Presbytery of Chirnside. Whole bunch of Berwickshire places! Melrose isn't even in Berwickshire 😜 Likely paper records muddling in Scottish Record Office / National Records of Scotland. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #School #Schools #History #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #ScotlandsPeople #Archive #Archives #HistoricalResearch #Berwickshire #Melrose #Roxburghshire #Scotland

Wish my brain would stop thinking "I'll just look up another 16th/17th century testament (will and/or inventory) to study in ScotlandsPeople" when the website is still down! Hope it comes back ok after latest upgrade / revamp. And hope it's not as disastrous as some other website revamps inc SP. #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #Scotland #History #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #ScotlandsPeople #website #websites #16thCentury #17thCentury #SixteenthCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Wills #Inventories

Checking the National Records of Scotland web catalogue is reminding me again how much I wish it allowed wildcards or fuzzy name searches. Searching for someone called Fowler circa 1600 - even a courtier whose job was writing stuff (secretary for the queen) - requires a lot of variant name searches! #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #NRS #Archives #Catalogues #Catalogs #Search #Histodon #Histodons

Checking the National Records of Scotland catalogue, and found this gem from 1548/9, the theft from convent of North Berwick of "the common seal of monastery and chapter as well as sone writings and discharges, to the great loss of the monastery." Not what I was seeking, but I'm intrigued to know if there was any followup. #ScottishHistory #NorthBerwick #Nuns #Crime #Theft #Monastery #Convent #16thCentury #SixteenthCentury #EastLothian #HistoricalResearch

Re the newly deciphered #MaryQueenOfScots letters my main takes are (1) #cryptography is awesome, and I love how exciting this is for my fellow computer scientists too; (2) it reminds us how much is hidden in #archives, uncatalogued or inadequately catalogued. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64568222 #ScottishHistory #History #ComputerScience #Cataloguing #HistoricalResearch #ArchivalResearch