Resources index

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History

ARTICLES
On History Scotland website

Sensationalism and Secrecy: The Aberdeen Typhoid Outbreak, 1964 Read Article

The Casket Sonnets: New Evidence Concerning Mary Queen of Scots
Read Article

Madeleine Smith....After the Trial
Read Article

Unlucky or Incompetent? History's Verdict on General Sir John Cope - Part. 1 - The Road to Prestonpans
Read Article

The Answer was a Lemon the conquering of scurvy
Read Article

THEMED LINKS & ON-LINE EXHIBITIONS

ILLUMINATED MANSUSCRIPTS

The Aberdeen Bestiary
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/

Murthly Hours
One of Scotland's great medieval treasures. Written and illuminated in Paris in the 1280s, it also contains full-page miniatures by English artists of the same period, and was one of the most richly decorated manuscripts in medieval Scotland. Medieval additions include probably the second oldest example of Gaelic written in Scotland.
http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/murthly/index.htm

The Book of Deer Project
The Book of Deer is a tenth century illuminated manuscript from North East Scotland.
http://www.bookofdeer.co.uk/

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MAPS

Charting the Nation:
Maps of Scotland and Associated Archives - A project of the Edinburgh University Library (1550-1740; facsimiles).
http://www.chartingthenation.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.html

Digital Maps of Scotland
A project of the National Library of Scotland (1560-1928; facsimiles).
http://www.nls.uk/maps/

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The Glasgow Story
Extensive website devoted to history of Glasgow
http://www.theglasgowstory.com

The Highland Clearances
Digital archive on Scotland's Highland Clearances. Photographs, articles, statistics, people and passenger searches, maps etc.
http://www.theclearances.org

Mary Queen of Scots
http://www.marie-stuart.co.uk/

Red Clydeside labour history
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/redclyde

Robert Burns website
http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/index.shtml

TAMH: Tayside - A Maritime History
Covers the history of the East of Scotland (Dundee, Arbroath, Montrose and Perth) and the sea. Articles on geography, trade, whaling, fishing, lifeboats, lighthouses and naval topics. Currently around 7500 records of mariners and their voyages from 1580 onwards.
http://www.tamh.org

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Uniting the Kingdoms? (1066-1603) exhibition
This exhibition looks at how the governments and people of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and of England's French territories, interacted in politics, warfare, religion, trade and everyday life UK Public Record Office
http://www.pro.gov.uk/pathways/utk/default.htm

400th Anniversary of Union of the Crowns - 1603
http://www.unionofthecrowns.com/

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WORLD WAR I & II

Experiences of War http://www.nls.uk/experiencesofwar/

Imperial War Museum
http://www.iwm.org.uk/online/index.htm

DOCUMENTS

Adam Smith - documents
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/smith.htm

Documents on Jacobite history
http://www.jacobite.ca/documents/

History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk.html

Declaration of Arboath
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/arbroath.html

Statistical Accounts of Scotland, 1791-1799 & 1845
(Facsimiles and maps; 1791-1799, 1845)
http://edina.ac.uk/statacc

The Scottish Parliament Project
A project producing a new edition of the acts of the Scottish Parliament before the Union of 1707, and new research in all aspects of the old parliament's history.
http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~scotparl/

The History of Parliament
http://www.history.ac.uk/hop/welcome.html

Radicalism in North East Scotland from c.1800 to 1930
Ongoing project archiving political articles from newspapers and journals, prints, squibs and ephemera such as handbills and song sheets. Themes such as the Reform Acts, Chartism, political and social grievances, trade-unions, the rise of the Labour Party and the women's suffrage movement. Recordings of political ballads that relate to some of these themes.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/radicalism/

LIBRARIES & ARCHIVES

Extensive digitisation of catalogues manuscripts, historical documents, photographs, video and audio material has taken place over the last few years. Here are a selection of what is available.

Edinburgh City Library Online Catalogue
http://eclis.edinburgh.gov.uk/www-bin/www_talis32

Glasgow Digital Library
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/

National Library of Scotland
www.nls.uk

National Archives of Scotland
http://www.nas.gov.uk/

Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
CANMORE is the name given to the searchable database of the National Monuments Record of Scotland, providing information on architectural, archaeological and maritime sites throughout Scotland, along with an index to the archive collections held in the NMRS.
http://www.rcahms.gov.uk

Scottish Archive Network
Project to provide open up access to the contents of Scotland's archives - an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the written history of Scotland. Aims to have access to 50 Scottish archives with the wills of Scots from 1500-1875 (some 2 million digital images!)
http://www.scan.org.uk

ScottishDocuments.com
Huge website includes a searchable database of wills and death certificates. Also transcripts and facsimiles of their original images.
http://www.scottishdocuments.com/

SCRAN
A searchable online resource base of one million text, photographic, video and audio records drawn from archives and collections from all over Scotland.
http://www.SCRAN.com

Shetland Museum Photographic Archive
The Shetland Museum holds a 80,000 photographs dating from the early 1870's onwards, covering all areas of the islands. Web Site currently has approximately 25,000 of the images.
http://photos.shetland-museum.org.uk/ShetlandMuseum/controller


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FILM ON-LINE

Scottish Screen Archive
View clips from Scottish films
http://data.scottishscreen.com/home/

Moving History
This research guide to the United Kingdoms twelve public sector moving image archives presents detailed information on these fascinating and valuable film and television collections. Features over 100 selected film clips to browse by theme or by archive
http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/

The Newsreel Database
Contains 160,000 records of British cinema newsreel production 1910 - 1979 and a large collection of digitised documents...
British Newsreel database
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/databases/newsreels/index.html

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UK WIDE

Folk Music
Folk music of England, Scotland, Wales, America. Several hundred songs can be heard on the site.
http://www.contemplator.com/

Genesis Project Developing access to women's history sources in the British Isles.
http://www.genesis.ac.uk/

The Archives Hub
Provides a single point of access to descriptions of archives held in UK universities and colleges. At present these are primarily at collection-level, although where possible they are linked to complete catalogue descriptions. The Archives Hub forms one part of the UK's National Archives Network, alongside related networking projects.
http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/

CASBAH - history of Black and Asian peoples in UK
Pilot web site for research resources relating to Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian peoples in the UK.. The database contains information from a UK-wide sample of relevant archive, printed and audio-visual resources held in academic, public and special libraries and repositories.
http://www.casbah.ac.uk/

National Archives (UK)
The National Archives has one of the largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1000 years of British history, from Domesday Book to government papers recently released to the public. You can see this collection at Kew, west London, or view certain documents online. The National Archives also advises people on the location of non-public records and manuscripts relating to British history. Acts as a gateway to the websites of the PRO and HMC.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Public Record Office (UK)
Find out how to use our archive, explore the collection via online catalogues, order copies of documents, download certain digitised documents, visit online exhibition galleries and our award-winning education site, browse the bookshop and access the Census site.
http://www.pro.gov.uk/

Historical Manuscript Commissions
Use online directories to identify the location of manuscripts and records (including manorial records) that relate to British history, find out the resources and current projects of particular archives through ARCHON, and use learning resources to help get the most out of archives across the UK.
http://www.hmc.gov.uk/