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Things you'll only understand if you went to school in the 90s

11 things you'll only understand if you went to school in the 90s

Borders Family History Society shares how you can find more information on you family through local newspapers. Photo: Unsplash/Roman Kraft

Kith and Kin – using newspaper articles to fill the gaps in family timelines

Borders Crematorium offers a quiet moment of contemplation ahead of Mother's Day

Borders Crematorium offers a quiet moment of contemplation ahead of Mother's Day

In the 1800s women were sent to asylums for 'reading mania'. Photo: Unsplash/Claudia Wolff

Kith and Kin: How women were sent to asylums during 'reading rage' phenomenon

Peter Munro shares what it was like in schools learning 'imperial' measures. Photo: Unsplash/Jen Theodore

Kith and Kin: Researcher shares memories of 'imperial' measures in his schooldays

Back Row Lindsay, Janice and Flynn, Front Row Ella, Farryn, Tom and Rory

Galashiels couple Tom and Ella celebrate 75th wedding anniversary

Borders Family History Society's Peter Munro discovers a relative may have founded an airline which later became part of Air France. Photo: Unsplash/Vincent Genevay

Kith and Kin: Researcher uncovers possible family connection to Air France

Setting up a Google Alert has been a helpful tool for the Borders Family History Society. Photo: Firmbee.com/Unsplash

Kith and Kin: Research tool helps make 'huge leap' in building family tree

Letters to Santa must be sent by Friday December 9 says chief elf

Letters to Santa must be sent by Friday December 9 says chief elf

Bernat Klein at High Sunderland in the Scottish Borders, 1963 - 1964. Photo: National Museums Scotland

Borderers invited to share memories of famous designer to mark his 100th birthday

Here's a photo of George VI's visit to Peebles with the Queen mother, princesses Elizabeth & Margaret and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947. Many thanks to Barbara Davis for this photo. Barbara's grandfather, Robert Cowan is on the far right

GALLERY: Remembering when Queen Elizabeth II visited the Borders

Dingleton Hospital. Photo: Karin Jones

Pioneering Borders hospital set to be celebrated for 150th anniversary

Horse drawn pump dating from 1806

Former Borders' fire engine from 1806 restored and now in museum in Edinburgh

Undated handout photo issued by Findmypast of instructions on how to complete the 1921 Census among the pages of one of the 30,000 volumes of the 1921 Census at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) near Southampton.

How do I view the 1921 census? Is it free? Your questions answered

Afghanistan: A timeline of the 20-year war sparked by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (PA)

A timeline of UK's involvement in Afghanistan since 9/11 terrorist attacks

REVIEW: 'New book will appeal to anyone with interest in Innerleithen’

REVIEW: 'New book will appeal to anyone with interest in Innerleithen’

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