From ancient standing stones to 90s skate parks, trove.scot unlocks over 5,000 years of Scottish heritage, offering users a seamless way to explore everything from historic sites and cultural artefacts to rare archival footage and spatial data. It’s Scotland’s past, reimagined for the digital age.
Until now, accessing HES’s wealth of information meant navigating multiple databases, each with different search functions. Now, for the first time ever, all that knowledge lives in one place. Built in partnership with manifesto, trove.scot is designed for everyone—heritage professionals, researchers, educators, and curious minds alike—with a powerful, user-first experience that’s mobile-friendly and accessible.
The project, a landmark investment in digital transformation, follows Digital Scotland Service Standard (DSSS) guidelines, ensuring industry leading user experience, accessibility, and content design. Combining deep user research with cutting-edge data science, trove.scot unifies history like never before—linking expert insights with dynamic content, so every search tells a story.
One search. Millions of possibilities.
Unlock Scotland’s past, anytime, anywhere—only on trove.scot.