Archive collections
Our collections range from municipal and other official records to collections created by individuals, businesses and organisations, all of them relevant to the history and development of the region.
You can download our
Summary of Holdings (pdf. 460k) which lists all the Archive's collections. You can also pick up copies from the Archive searchroom, at
your local library or
by requestOur collections include records for all the area's
small burghs (pdf.71k), the
City and Royal Burgh of Perth (pdf.104k ), as well as
county records (pdf.89k), those for the
district councils (pdf.55k),
Tayside Regional Council (pdf. 56k) and
Perth and Kinross District Council (pdf.55k). Check the
Council records page for more details.
We also hold other kinds of
official collections (pdf. 66k) such as some police and constabulary records.
Our collections also include
gifts and deposits. These collections have been gifted or deposited indefinitely to the Archive by individuals, families, businesses and organisations concerned with preserving our cultural heritage.
To help you find which collections will be of most use to your research, we have listed summaries of these collections according to themes:
