RBS Heritage Hub

There's a spotlight feature about our archives in the new (Jul/Aug) issue of @HistoryScotland

Today is our 286th birthday - The Royal Bank of Scotland's founding charter was granted on 31 May 1727

What's the oddest name in your family tree? We have a Miles, Miles, Harford, Miles & Miles in ours. bit.ly/11duVKj

New website RBS Heritage Hub rbs.com/heritage has loads of info about people, places and companies in our history

RT @archiveshub: Always nice to have new contributors! This week we've had some interesting descriptions from @RBS_Archives http://t.co/iED…

RT @WorkingArchive: Company of Scotland records @RBS_Archives & @natlibscot "a unique resource" Read more bit.ly/16RdXCR #wo ...

RT @ScotsArchives: We're live!Visit the @WorkingArchive website for excellent resources, stunning images and tonnes of interesting stuff ...

Happy New Year to all pre-1752 archive-using friends #25March #LadyDay #JulianCalendar

On 14 March 1867 John Buchan (g'father of the 39 Steps author) was appointed manager of our new bank in Peebles bit.ly/WJpnHY

Did you see our 19th C. banker John Lubbock in BBC4 doc 'Heritage!' last night? Great story: kept a pet wasp & taught a dog to read.

RT @BallastTrust: New case study on student 'archive taster weeks' @RBS_Archives is up on the national strategy blog http://t.co/IqSoUnT ...

UK decimalisation #onthisday 42 years ago went so smoothly it was called ‘the non-event of 1971’ bit.ly/U8LPYL

12 February 1971 was the last weekday before UK Decimalisation. Banks were closed so staff could prepare bit.ly/U8LPYL

Violin lessons, school fees, library fines…starting today @JohnoftheBank tweets his family accounts from 1772 #Edinburgh #18thCentury

Celebrating completion of our #140Characters project with a Currie. To be precise, Raikes Currie (1801-81) bit.ly/V9SV9U

It's the final countdown: this year's #140Characters project reaches the last 10 with clerk Geo. Wheatley (d1798) bit.ly/W8cimF

People worldwide donated to the relief fund for Canada’s #HalifaxExplosion 6 Dec 1917. UK banks too: bit.ly/TJyNPc #hfxex1917

NatWest Piggies account launched #onthisday in 1983, which makes baby pig Woody 29 now. They grow up so fast. bit.ly/XpmxGV

Today's festive pic: a mystery customer and his reindeer visit our mobile bank, 1960s. facebook.com/rbsarchives

Festive fun on Facebook facebook.com/rbsarchives - a Christmassy pic each day ‘til the 24th #TisTheSeason

UK’s ‘last typewriter’ produced today. The first typewriters were key to the history of women in banking: bit.ly/Xwtc3j

Unpopular boss Wm Newmarch taken ill, 1881. Staff carrying him downstairs allegedly bumped him down each step bit.ly/UjmWE1 #ouch

Book of Remembrance for over 2,500 of our colleagues who lost their lives in war bit.ly/RMnvrG

Victorian banker TC Newman got his first bank job because interviewer liked tall people bit.ly/VqS5Xt #TallTale #140Characters

‘Skills learned will be treasured’: our Archives Taster Weeks initiative is awarded Archive Pace Setter status bit.ly/Tb65Zp

140Characters: 3 October 1745 was a tough, dangerous day for banker John Campbell. His tale is @JohnoftheBank bit.ly/mVRXqQ

140Characters: 19th cent author Wm Pearson was 17yrs a banker – called it ‘drudgery at the desk’s dead wood’ bit.ly/NM3eTJ

Battle of Prestonpans or Gladesmuir or Tranent #onthisday (early a.m.) 1745. In Edinburgh, @JohnoftheBank is still awaiting news…

Diary of @JohnoftheBank in the ‘45 returns tomorrow. Could all it turn out differently this time? Unlikely, but join the ride anyway!

If @JohnoftheBank were alive today he’d surely be sending congratulations to @andy_murray. And asking what ‘US’ is. #NewWorld

Wonder what @JohnoftheBank did after 1745? From Jan 2013 he tweets calmer times (1772) ‘Til then – bring on the passion! danger! courage!

Did you miss @JohnoftheBank’s diary last time around? Get a 2nd (Jaco)bite of the cherry, starting next Friday #FF

RT @archivesireland: Article in ARC magazine on twitter & #archives by @RBS_Archives @JohnoftheBank - 'tweets...mentally composed i ...

In autumn 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army occupied Edinburgh. Follow @JohnoftheBank’s diary to relive tense times, from 14/9

Banker-antiquarian Hilton Price born 170yrs ago today. What he didn’t know about old spoons wasn’t worth knowing bit.ly/IS00e1

Doncaster 1750 – Leeds 1774 – York 1784 – over a dozen fine old Yorkshire banks are part of today’s NatWest. Happy #Yorkshireday

#CatherinetheGreat had banker-doctor Dimsdale inoculate her for smallpox, to prove it safe bit.ly/OovxUW See her @NtlMuseumsScot

Glyn, Mills & Co staff tennis team, 1920s on.fb.me/R90I8T Anyone else wish they still dressed like this at Wimbledon?

What did the banker-about-town wear in 1822? @janeaustenworld knows (great photos too) wp.me/p6Mf3-5nZ #wig #dottynightgown

"You have hissed all my mystery lectures!" Just found out Revd Spooner (1844-1930) banked at the Westminster, Oxford branch #spoonerism

Last of our #RoyalTreasures: coronation procession passing Drummonds Bank, 1953 bit.ly/JWArXr Have a great #jubilee, everyone!

#RoyalTreasures: 1727 banknote: the 1st showing a British monarch. Bank of England notes didn’t until 1960 bit.ly/KlUFKQ #jubilee

Today is The Royal Bank of Scotland's 285th birthday - our founding royal charter was granted #onthisday in 1727

#RoyalTreasures: National Provincial Bank Alderley Edge decked out for Edward VII’s coronation, 1902 bit.ly/MXfWhq #jubilee

#RoyalTreasures: tiny bank passbook, 1926. Made for the Queen’s dolls' house by National Provincial Bank bit.ly/KK86n9 #jubilee

This week we’re exploring some #RoyalTreasures from our archives. First up – our Royal Charter, 1727. bit.ly/KnBgJP #jubilee

New #jubilee £10 note is in a long royal tradition. Our 1st note (1727) also featured the monarch – see it here bit.ly/MmF0eU

RT @RBS_MediaTeam: We’re marking the #DiamondJubilee by launching our first ever £10 commemorative note for the Queen. Press release her ...

Article in today's @scotsmandotcom about RBS historic banknotes: bit.ly/J4rU2R

Apparently this is the 250th anniversary of the sandwich, invented by 4th Earl of Sandwich, whose family banked with us #PieceOfHistory

Banker FG Hilton Price had varied interests. Wrote books on banking, history of London, Egyptian antiquities, spoons bit.ly/IS00e1

Voted yet? Sheffield banker Samuel Bailey stood as a Philosophical Radical, 1831&4. Came last. Twice. Quit politics. bit.ly/ItayBn

Banker, classicist & translator Walter Leaf (d.1927) – on many subjects, ‘the best-informed person in the room’ bit.ly/I7So8T

Rhode Island baker Wm Hayward kneaded dough for years before he helped start Citizens Savings Bank in 1871 bit.ly/J1I3pu

Andrew Grote, born #onthisday in 1710, was a Dutch-German immigrant to London who started a major bank bit.ly/HFTe91

Spring! Flowers bursting open! We especially like marigolds – memento of our earliest roots in 17th cent. London bit.ly/HhQHoI

Fanny Hopkins was our first female bank manager, appointed 1859 – over 100yrs before our second bit.ly/HoK3LV

Happy birthday to former bank clerk Randolph Caldecott, great children’s illustrator, b.22 Mar 1846. Fun cartoon: bit.ly/GLsvt5

Celebrating St Patrick’s Day this w/end with a toast to The Liberator. He also started a bank, you know bit.ly/y9r6JE Sláinte!

RBS customer William Smellie edited the first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, pub.1771. Thank you for everything, Mr Smellie.

Banker and anti-slavery campaigner Henry Thornton was born #onthisday in 1760 bit.ly/wodIQ2

Not all 19th century bankers wore bowler hats. Meet the magnificent Harriot Coutts bit.ly/z961J0 #IWD #womensday

Ernest Cornwall (1875-1966) served 74yrs in National Provincial Bank, from apprentice to general manager & director bit.ly/yQjFcc

Banker, politician, naturalist & archaeologist John Lubbock invented the terms Palaeolithic & Neolithic bit.ly/yNXLBs

Henry Sykes Thornton (1800-81), who kept his head in a bank crisis at 25 and lost his heart to forbidden love at 52 bit.ly/zymi1j

Derby banker and cheese innovator John Gilbert Crompton (d.1913) bit.ly/yEHi0M. Blessed are the cheesemakers.

RT @CouttsandCo: Today marks 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens, Coutts client, author, friend of banking heiress Angela Burde ...

Tellson’s staff dev’t policy: ‘they kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him’

Tellson’s Bank in A Tale of Two Cities was modelled on our oldest constituent, Child & Co #Dickens2012 bit.ly/wzqIei

John Campbell of RBS died today in 1777. Wish his portrait RIP @NatGalleriesSco (Jacobites gallery) bit.ly/mVRXqQ @JohnoftheBank

Charles Mills b.23 Jan 1792 was Canterton, ‘the fellow for history at Whites’, in Disraeli's Coningsby bit.ly/zQvUmS #140Characters

Banker Forrest Alexander (d.1833): ‘his well made legs had not escaped the notice of the young ladies’ bit.ly/Ad4he1 #140Characters

First up in #140Characters: few non-Royals have ever appeared on a British banknote. Here’s one: David Dale bit.ly/ymQmXh

New for @RBS_Archives in 2012: #140Characters, meeting 140 interesting ppl from our history bit.ly/zxq7JT Hope we'll learn a lot.

RBS heritage advent calendar 24: the final door is open. Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night! bit.ly/rYeTHj

RBS heritage advent calendar 23: Santa says he'll be back in 10 mins. Hope so - busy night tomorrow... bit.ly/tWAwtF

RBS heritage advent calendar 22: see a banker transformed into Father Christmas before your very eyes bit.ly/uOTYxP #magic

RBS heritage advent calendar 21: Christmas nostalgia's not what it used to be. Victorian view of a Regency Christmas bit.ly/u7vuZp

RBS heritage advent calendar 20: best holiday greetings to American friends. Here's a fine Pennsylvanian Santa bit.ly/tAkxrk

RBS heritage advent calendar 19: we're back at the Glyn, Mills children's Christmas party, 1949 bit.ly/vwCzdc #sleighbells #decibels

RBS heritage advent calendar 18: Christmas box book, 1789 bit.ly/uQADtB

RBS heritage advent calendar 17: another snowy cartoon from wartime Osterley bit.ly/uUGV5T

RBS heritage advent calendar 16: party frocks on for the Glyn, Mills & Co children's Christmas party, 1949 bit.ly/uJI8UT

RBS heritage advent calendar 15: and you thought he travelled by flying sleigh... bit.ly/tTnN2W

RBS heritage advent calendar 14: ten maxims for a happy Christmas, 1913 bit.ly/tWzp04

RBS heritage advent calendar 13: many people spend Christmas far from home & friends, especially in times of war bit.ly/uP3Ci7

RBS heritage advent calendar 12: Twitter's great for up-to-date info. Details of Christmas bank holidays 1896 here: bit.ly/uYSAAM

RBS heritage advent calendar 11: all Frederick Fane wanted for Christmas was a deposits ledger. It takes all sorts. bit.ly/tOHvO4

RBS heritage advent calendar 10: festive VIP visitor to RBS head office in Edinburgh, 1970. bit.ly/uxdZxP

RBS heritage advent calendar 9: uncharitable wartime suggestion for dealing with carol singers bit.ly/rBi2Tb

RBS heritage advent calendar 8: what could be more Christmassy than a hippopotamus? bit.ly/tJQmWN

RBS heritage advent calendar 7: 1920s gift idea. Book-shape metal coin box, only openable at the bank bit.ly/syoq2n #justwhatiwanted

RBS heritage advent calendar 6: bankers do doodle too. Seasonal cartoon on the back of an instruction memo bit.ly/rpIpwJ

RBS heritage advent calendar 5: remember the NatWest piggies? Today is their 28th birthday. bit.ly/sLm89J #embarrassingbabyphoto

RBS heritage advent calendar door 4: bankers on ice bit.ly/rZwKNb

RBS heritage advent calendar door 3: does Father Christmas go down chimneys head first or feet first? bit.ly/sDkWbp #wemustbetold

RBS heritage advent calendar door 2: it's the cast of the Ulster Bank staff panto, 1937 bit.ly/sx0si9 #ohnoitsnot #ohyesitis

RBS heritage advent calendar begins today! Door 1: who is this mystery man visiting the RBS mobile bank? bit.ly/uLbWJu