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Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.

Time Travels: Series 3

Time Travels: Episode 6: Princess Nuns and Brides in Uniform

Episode 6

Episode 6: Princess Nuns and Brides in Uniform

Princess Nuns and Brides in Uniform

BBC Radio Scotland - Time Travels, Princess Nuns and Brides in Uniform

Susan Morrison explores Second World War weddings.

Susan Morrison finds out about life for high-class royal nuns and explores Second World War weddings - spitfires on the wedding cake and brides in uniform.

Susan Morrison joins Dig Ventures as they go on the hunt for a missing 7th Century Monastery. This was the early monastery of Coldingham, run by Anglo-Saxon princess St Aebbe, but reputed by hostile commentators to be a high class bolthole for the posh, the pious and the powerful! The project are using 'crowd-sourced' archaeology to choose the most likely digging spots.

Plus you might think that weddings would have been scaled back in the cash-strapped era of World War 2. Not the case - the 'perfect' wedding with the white dress and idyllic church setting may actually have became more popular, but brides in uniform were also a thing. Murray Maclean encourages us to find out what granny and grandad's wedding photos might tell us about the war.

And in our regular WW1@Home series, Susan finds out about East Lothian's airship war and hears how one came to a dramatic end in the Firth of Forth.

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