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Picture the scene. It's 1901. It's Paris. You make a bet with some friends that you could walk around the world, funding the entire trip by selling postcards featuring photos of YOURSELF. You set off. This is the story of Charles Millot. Read it now at: orkneyarchive.blogspot.com

Angus Cameron selling calves at Torlundy, c1920 [source: Highland Livestock Heritage Society]

Here is another mystery image from our Engineers glass negatives. You can see what appears to be a tram rail at the bottom on the road, and a house just peeping over the hill. Any suggestions on where this could be? #WhereisitWednesday #Dundee #Archives

Many names that would strike people as traditionally Scottish originate from France. Bruce, Bissett, Boyle, Corbett, Gifford, Hay, Fraser? All Norman names, appearing in Scotland from the 12th century. Find out more about Scottish surnames 👇 bit.ly/SurnamesSP

We're back on the A9 today with this #BeforeandAfter view of the route at Daviot, south of Inverness. This section was completed in April 1979 and was built by William Tawse Ltd. W.A Fairhurst & Partners handled the design. #Scotland #Archives

We’re seeking a Patient Tracing Officer to work for our NHS Central Register Team in Dumfries. Find out more about this data entry position and apply online 👇 bit.ly/NHSCR-Job

Vehicles being loaded onto MV 'Hebridean Isles' at #Uig, Isle of #Skye in July 1987 before sailing to Tarbert and Lochmaddy [photo: Ken MacKenzie / The Highland Council]

Mary Gerrie Esson is this week's Worker of the Week! She worked as a munitions worker at H.M. Factory Gretna and went on to live in Australia! Read more about her here: devilsporridge.org.uk/worker-of-the-… #WorkeroftheWeek #localhistory

#Dalmore Distillery, #Alness in 1918 when it was also known as U.S. Naval Base 17. Between February and November 1918, almost 40,000 mines were assembled here before being transported on the specially constructed railway line from the distillery to the harbour at #Invergordon and

This view of Fords Lane is taken from Hawkhill and is looking towards Perth Road. Date: January 1961 Ref: TC/Ph10/14/118/1

#OnThisDay in 1981 the A835 between Tore Roundabout and Maryburgh opened to traffic. Designed by Crouch & Hogg and built by Fairclough, this scheme was built as part of the realignment of the A9 over the Black Isle. #Scotland #Archives

As the #WomensEuros final approaches, we look back to women’s football in the 1950s, when the Edinburgh Dynamos weren’t allowed to join the Scottish Football Association! Anyone know where this pic was taken? #ThrowbackThursday thanks to The Living Memory Association zurl.co/itoNC

Here is a newspaper clipping of Grantley Turner who served for many years in The Black Watch, and also had a successful career as a football player with St Johnstone. Turner played for St Johnstone from 1905 to 1912 (including a spell as Captain). #TheBlackWatch #SJFC

Today’s picture shows Anne Forrest standing in the garden outside her pre fab home at 49 Redhall Drive, Edinburgh c.1955 Redhall Drive was housed with prefab homes after the war. #edinburgh #memories

🚂 Free event! Discover how Victorian railways transformed Scottish tourism at a talk for our Edinburgh Festival Fringe exhibition. Join Prof Rab Houston on 7 August to explore the fascinating history of Scottish holidays and how steam trains changed travel forever. 🎟️ bit.ly/NRS-TourismTalk

On the right are the distinctive concrete arches of the Findhorn Bridge, near #Tomatin, circa 1930s. Built in 1926, the bridge carried the old A9 over the River Findhorn [source: HLH Archives; D1751/2/1/02]

A load of #peat being delivered to Billy Gordon’s croft at Aird, #Bettyhill, mid-1960s. Pictured are, L-R, Jim Richmond, Graham Richmond and Billy Gordon [photo courtesy of Jim Richmond]

General Register House is one of Edinburgh’s most recognisable landmarks, the first purpose-built archive building in the world that’s still in use today. If you’ve never visited us, take a tour through GRH as it appeared in the 18th century 👇 youtu.be/0w2MCelB4kA

The marriage contract of Margaret of Scotland and King Erik II of Norway, 25 July 1281. The couple’s daughter Margaret - “the Maid of Norway” - later died on her way to Scotland to take the throne of the Kingdom, creating a succession crisis that erupted into decades of war.

Inside the first Overgate Centre Date: 14 September 1989 Ref: IN046-086 BW281