Celtic and Scottish Studies
This guide provides a general introduction to Library resources relating to Celtic and Scottish Studies.
Internet resources
As differentiated from our Library licensed databases, the large, curated catalogue of internet resources below are mostly free to access. In some cases users may be required to register or create an account. Every effort has been made by the Academic Support Librarian to ensure that the website content is suitable for academic study, but it is the user's own responsibility to check the authority, currency and accuracy of content.
Dictionaries, books and other references
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Early Gaelic Book Collections Images of selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections' at the National Library of Scotland. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history.
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First Scottish Books Including The Chapman and Myllar Prints held at the National Library of Scotland
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Gazetteers of Scotland, 1803-1901 Digitised 20 volumes of the most popular descriptive gazetteers of Scotland, providing a comprehensive geographical encyclopaedia of Scotland in the 19th century. Principal places in Scotland, including towns, counties, castles, glens, antiquities and parishes, are listed alphabetically. Each entry includes detailed historical and geographical information about each place.
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Genealogical collections concerning families in Scotland, made by Walter Macfarlane, 1750-1751 A collection of genealogies of ancient Scottish families compiled around 1750 by Walter Macfarlane. Re-published in 1900 as ‘Genealogical collections concerning families in Scotland’ for private circulation to members of the Scottish History Society. Edited from original manuscripts in the Advocates Library by James Toshach Clark.
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Internet Archive - books in Scottish Gaelic Over 500 books in Scottish Gaelic
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Publications by Scottish clubs Full text versions of historical texts dating from the 12th to the 19th century. Edited by the Abbotsford, Bannatyne, Grampian, Hunterian, Spalding and New Spalding Clubs, and also the Scottish Text, Spottiswoode and Wodrow Societies. Critical printed editions of manuscripts, including church records, state papers, correspondence, memoirs, diaries, legends and literary texts.
Projects and organisations
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A. G. van Hamel Foundation for Celtic Studies Including online catalogues of texts, manuscripts and bibliography relevant to Celtic studies
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European Ethnological Research Centre The EERC is a research centre within Celtic & Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Its primary concern is the promotion of research into everyday life and society in Scotland and the publication of the results.
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Islands Book Trust Key publisher of books about the history of Scotland's islands and their communities. The "Resources" section provides free resources like Island Notes, for free download.
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Scotland's Pages - Scotland's Written History Explore almost 1,000 years of Scotland's history via the National Library of Scotland's interactive timeline. Trace events as they happened by reading the first-hand accounts of observers, from the death of St Margaret to the opening of the new Scottish Parliament. Digital facsimiles of some of the most important documents in our collections help to illustrate the story of the shaping of the Scottish nation. This website is based on an exhibition of manuscripts and printed material held in the National Library of Scotland in the summer of 2000. It uses extracts from the book Reportage Scotland, edited by Louise Yeoman and published by Luath Press in association with NLS.
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Scotland Moving Image Archive From home movies to documentaries, from industry to entertainment - the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive (formerly the Scottish Screen Archive) has something for everyone. Explore around 100 years of Scotland's history captured by amateur and professional film-makers. Here in the Moving Image Archive catalogue you will find details of thousands of films and videos
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Scottish Voices Collection at University of Wi9sconsin-Madison Libraries The collection derives chiefly from fieldwork undertaken in the 1980s and early 1990s by Professor John D. Niles while teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. The collection includes over 200 audio selections and over 50 video selections documenting the art of traditional singers, storytellers and musicians.
Google Scholar
You can use Google Scholar to search for academic resources including journal articles, peer-reviewed papers, books and theses.
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RefSeek
RefSeek (https://www.refseek.com/) is a web and document search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, journals, and newspapers.