National Archives of Scotland
September 28, 2009 by David Torrance
To the National Archives of Scotland this morning to have a look through some of the 4,000 Scottish Office files which have just been declassified by the Scottish Government in a welcome revision of the 30-year rule to something approaching, in effect, a 15-year rule, meaning that almost all government files covering the period 1979-94 will eventually be released to the public and, of course, geeky researchers like myself. Pictured right is Minister for Parliamentary Business Bruce Crawford, a former Scottish Office civil servant himself, looking at an old devolution file from 1978 (picture courtesy of NAS).
You can reach the Scottish Government press release by clicking here, while the Sunday Express has already carried a sneak preview of files relating to a proposed takeover of the Royal Bank of Scotland in the early 1980s. There are also stories in Tuesday’s Herald about the Pope’s visit to Scotland in the early 1980s, and in the Daily Telegraph about North Sea oil and independence, although the latter isn’t new.
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