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Perthshire is the heart of Scotland - and it has often been at the very heart of Scottish history. At Scone Palace, the country's ancient kings and queens were crowned upon the Stone of Destiny, while at Loch Leven on Perthshire's southern border, Mary Queen of Scots spent a long year in captivity. But Perthshire, beautiful Perthshire, is also an incredibly fertile land and its farms and fields yield many a secret about the lives and times of ordinary Scots.
Perthshire's fine museum collection brings the area's history to life, seeing it through the eyes of farm workers, soldiers, clansmen and artists, each bringing a new dimension to our understanding of the past. The AK Bell library in Perth provides another friendly focus for family history research.
