Resources index
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Heritage
ARTICLES ON HISTORY SCOTLAND WEBSITE
The Future of the S.V. Carrick
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Place-names - Lickerstane: meanings and myths
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MAJOR EVENTS
Doors Open Day
Every weekend in September the opportunity to discover Scotland's hidden heritage. Doors Open Days offer the chance to explore some of Scotland's most interesting buildings, ancient and modern - free of charge! From castles to cottages, lifeboat stations to football grounds - even an eco-friendly house built from old car-tyres.
http://www.doorsopendays.org.uk/home.htm
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MUSEUMS
Go to museums page on this site
EDUCATION /COURSES
University of Glasgow,
Heritage, the Environment & Tourism:
http://www.cc.gla.ac.uk/layer2/scottish_studies/heritage_e_t.htm
University of St Andrews
Museum Studies Course
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~mgstud
PLACENAMES
Scottish Place-name Society
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/index.htm
Scots place-name web discussion group
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/scotplace/
Orkney placenames
http://www.orkneyjar.com/placenames/index.html
CONSERVATION
Library Conservation Unit at the University of Dundee
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/library/lib_cons.html
Garden History Society
Scotland's only independent, voluntary organisation working to conserve its heritage of historic gardens, estate policies, parks and other designed landscapes. Offers a programme of educational events and undertake conservation through monitoring planning applications, offering advice and forming partnerships aimed at protecting Scotland's Heritage.
http://www.gardenhistorysociety.org/
Scottish Society for Conservation and Restoration
http://www.sscr.demon.co.uk/
Urban Conservation Glossary
The glossary provides an easy reference to architectural, building and conservation terms for anyone with an interest in the conservation of the built environment. It covers terminology used to describe buildings and their settings, their date and function and associations including the architects and craftsmen who built them, their tools and the materials used. It also covers relevant legislation and the bodies involved in conservation work.
http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/research/glossary/glossary.html
Unicorn Preservation Society
www.frigateunicorn.org
GAELIC/SCOTS/Scottish Studies
Am Baile - The Gaelic Village
Bi-lingual website with key resource material, both historical and contemporary, telling the story of Gaelic culture, language and heritage
http://www.ambaile.org.uk/
St Kilda Unesco World heritage site
http://www.hiort.org.uk/
SCOTS language Project
http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS
Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL)
A massive online dictionary of Scots, free to access. DSL combines the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and Scottish National Dictionary to provide an invaluable resource for those seeking the meaning of any Scots word between the medieval period when it was first written down and the present day.
http://www.dsl.ac.uk/
Institute for the Languages of Scotland -
http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/celtscot/institutelanguagesscotland
Scottish Language Dictionaries
http://www.sldl.org.uk
Scots Languages Resource Centre
http://scotsyett.com/
STELLA Scots Links
http:// www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/links.htm#Scots
Accent Change in Glaswegian: A sociophonetic investigation -
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/ EngLang/research/accent/accent1.htm
NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
Historic Scotland
More than historic 300 properties - Scotland's listed buildings and scheduled ancient monuments. Resources for schools and details on technical conservation and research.
http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/
The Royal Scottish Geographical Society
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/~rsgs
National Trust for Scotland
www.nts.org.uk/
Scottish Castles Association
http://www.scottishcastlesassociation.com
The Scottish Text Society
http://www.scottishtextsociety.org/
Scottish Wildlife trust
http://www.swt.org.uk
UK-WIDE
Museums Association
http://www.museumsassociation.org/
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