The workbook that started it all! I wasn’t politically minded. To be absolutely honest, I wasn’t even that interested… Until I started home educating my teenage stepdaughter. We started looking at various topics in history, and settled on Scotlands history. The more we read, the more we looked, and the more we learned, the more outraged we became. It’s still beyond my comprehension as to how we can learn our history, and still feel like independence is something to be ignored. Enjoy!

Northern Archives uncovers the scattered voices of Scotland — letters, journals, and forgotten records misfiled under “British” history. Each piece traces our people across the world, from Caribbean ports to Russian courts, revealing the lives, words, and identities that empire absorbed. This project invites Scots everywhere to search, share, and reclaim our story — one name, one page, one archive at a time.