Scotland Links


Table of Contents

General Books
News Maps
Prehistory Clans
History Traditional Weapons
Language Clothing

Highland Games and Other Events


General

Rampant Scotland Directory (10,000+ links)

http://www.rampantscotland.com/

U.S. Scots [simply one of the best out there!]

http://www.usscots.com/

Tartan TV

http://www.tartantv.com/

Scottish Radiance, A Journal about all things Scottish

http://www.scottishradiance.com/index.htm

Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network

http://www.scran.ac.uk/

The soc.culture.scott Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.siliconglen.com/scotfaq/

About.com - Scottish Culture

http://search.about.com/fullsearch.htm?terms=scottish+culture&PM=59_0100_S

HighlandNet's Links page

http://www.highlandnet.com/info/links.html

Scottish Parliament Website

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/

Electric Scotland

http://www.electricscotland.com/

scotland.org

http://www.scotland.org/

Scottish Radiance

http://www.scottishradiance.com/radtab.htm

the Gen [includes interactive 3D photo tour of Edinburgh]

http://thegen.com/

walkscotland.com

http://www.walkscotland.com/

The Legend of Nessie

http://www.nessie.co.uk/

Heraldry in Scotland

http://www.kwtelecom.com/heraldry/scother1.html

The Lord Lyon and his Jurisdiction

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/lordlyon.htm

Dalriada Celtic Heritage Trust

http://www.dalriada.co.uk/

Encarta Interactive World Atlas Online: Scotland

http://www.encarta.com/ewa/pages/a/30117.htm

News

BBC Scotland -- On Air

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_430000/430162.stm

BBC News -- UK: Scotland

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/default.htm

Recent Scotsman articles of interest.

http://www.nevadacountycelticclub.org/scotsman.htm

All the World's Newspapers: Scotland

http://www.webwombat.com.au/intercom/newsprs/scotland.htm

Scotland: Newspapers and other on line media

http://www.zen.co.uk/home/page/wrx/scotland.htm

"Scottish Snippets", Rampant Scotland's weekly newsletter

http://www.RampantScotland.com/letter.htm

Scottish Politics

http://www.alba.org.uk/

Prehistory

University of Edinburg - Archaeology Links

http://www.arcl.ed.ac.uk/arch/interest.html

The British Academy's Links to Online Resources

http://www.britac.ac.uk/links/resources.html

Kilmartin house Museum [archaeology & landscape interpretation centre]

http://www.kilmartin.org/

Butser Ancient Farm

http://www.skcldv.demon.co.uk/iafintro.htm

History

Skyelander's Scottish & Medieval History Web Site

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3145/index.html

Historic Scotland

http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/live-root-historic/frameset.htm

William Wallace

http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/wallace/index.html

Scottish Economic History Database (1550-1780)

http://www.ex.ac.uk/~ajgibson/scotdata/scot_database_home.html

The 'Old' (1791-1799) And The New (1834-1845) Statistical Accounts Of Scotland (fully searchable!!)

http://edina.ed.ac.uk/StatAcc/

Language

Scots (Lallans, Doric, etc.)

"Introducing Scots"

http://www.snda.org.uk/IntroducingScots.htm

"What is Scots?" (Andy Eagle)

http://www.scots-online.org/grammar/whits.htm

Dictionary of the Scots Language

http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/

Scottish Language Dictionaries -- was: Scottish National Dictionary Association (SNDA)

http://www.snda.org.uk/

Andy Eagle's Online Scots Dictionary

http://www.scots-online.org/dictionary/search.asp

britannia.org's Scots Dictionary

http://www.britannia.org/scotland/scotsdictionary/

The Official Doric Site (U. of Aberdeen - Elphinstone Kist)

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/kist/index.hti

scots-online.org

http://www.scots-online.org

Sandy Fleemin's ScotsteXt site

http://www.scotstext.org

Carolyn Macafee's "A Selected Classified Bibliography of the Scots Language"

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~enl038/web.htm

Gaelic

Michael Newton's Gaelic in Scottish History and Culture

http://www.shauncraig.fsnet.co.uk/

Michael Newton's Gaelic Cultural Resource Centre

http://home.earthlink.net/~gaelicmichael/

"Let's Try a Little Gaelic" -- Eileen MacKenzie's weekly Gaelic Lessons [courtesy Scottish InterNET Radio -- start with archived "Lesson1"]

http://www.internetradio.co.uk/scottish/

iLoveLanguages' Gaelic Resources

http://www.ilovelanguages.com/index.php?category=Languages%7CBy+Language%7CGaelic

Gaelic Scotland

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/cnag/failte/Failte97/f0b.html

Gaelic Learner's Materials Online (Sabhal Mor Ostaig)

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/ionnsachadh

Notes for learners of Scottish Gaelic (David Wright)

http://www.ealaghol.demon.co.uk/learner.htm

gaelic.net

http://www.gaelic.net

Comunn na Gàidhlig's Links page

http://www.cnag.org.uk/links.htm

Gaelic-English Dictionary

http://www.sst.ph.ic.ac.uk/angus/Faclair/

Malcolm MacFarlane's The School Gaelic Dictionary

http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MF2/index.html

Alexander MacBain's Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language

http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/index.html

Gaelic Dictionaries Online

http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/index.html

Carmina Gadelica [121 passages in Gaidhlig with English Translation]

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/corpus/Carmina/

Failte 97 -- Learning Gaelic

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/cnag/failte/Failte97/f12b.html

Gaidhlig '97 Campaign

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/canan/gaidhlig-97

BBC Alba [Information on Gaelic Broadcasts]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/alba

Slighe nan Gaidheal [Seattle's Gaelic Language & Cultural Society]

http://www.slighe.com/

Scottish Radiance's archived monthly "Scottish Gaelic Column" [w/ English translation]

http://claymore.wisemagic.com/scotradiance/galcol.htm

Books

National Library of Scotland

http://www.nls.uk/

National Library of Scotland: First Scottish Books

http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/chepman/index.html

The Book of Deer (10th century)

http://www.bookofdeer.co.uk/homepage.html

John Barbour: The Brus (c.1375)

http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/STARN/poetry/BRUS/text01.htm

Blin Hary: Wallace (c. 1478) [a work-in-progress: books 1-5 completed]

http://www.cyberstudia.com/ogmios/texts/hary/wallace.html

Gawin Douglas: The Palis of Honoure (1501)

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/phonour1.htm

William Dunbar: The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Women and the Wedo (1508)

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=DunMari&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed

The 'Old' (1791-1799) And The New (1834-1845) Statistical Accounts Of Scotland (fully searchable!!)

http://edina.ac.uk/StatAcc/index.html

The "Official" Robert Burns site

http://www.robertburns.org/

Sir Walter Scott: Selected Waverly Novels & Bio. by Lockheart

http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/STARN/prose/WSCOTT/contents.htm

Sir Walter Scott: Rob Roy (1817)

http://celt.net/Celtic/msg/rr/rr_contents.html

R.J. Dury's Robert Louis Stevenson Website

http://www.unibg.it/rls/rls.htm

Project Gutenberg's etexts for Robert Lewis Stevenson (1850-1894)

http://promo.net/pg/_authors/i-_stevenson_robert_louis_.html

Robert Tannahill: Poems and Songs (1875 edition)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lennich/tannaps.htm

James McCosh, "The Scottish Philosophy" (1875)

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/text/mccosh/mccosh.htm

Ogmios Press [online texts of early Scots material of note]

http://www.cyberstudia.com/ogmios/main.html

University of SC's links to Scottish Literature Resources

http://www.sc.edu/library/scotlit/other.html

University of Mannheim's A Scotland Reading List

http://www.uni-mannheim.de/users/bibsplit/anglistik/sco_bks.html

James Thinn Booksellers [est.1848, Edinburgh]

http://www.jamesthin.co.uk/

Historic Scotland's Publications

http://shop.historic-scotland.net/dept.asp?dept%5Fid=16&mscssid=30LNS47TE35A8NU5GN7X3TCHCLPQ3GUC

Chapman, Scotland's Quality Literary Magazine

http://www.chapman-pub.co.uk/

Hjokfinnies Sanglines, a Scottish current affairs online magazine

http://www.yfinnie.demon.co.uk/capsule/nova.html

Maps

Gazateer for Scotland

http://ossian.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/gaztitle.html

Ordnance Survey [Maps]

http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/

multimap.com

http://uk.multimap.com/map/places.cgi

The UK Street Map Page< p align="CENTER"> http://www.streetmap.co.uk/

Landmark's Free Historic Maps

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

Britannia: Maps

http://www.britannia.com/maps/mapfram.html

Oddens' Links to UK Maps

http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/FMPro?-DB=Oddenstest&-Lay=Layout+%231&-format=search_results.htm&-error=search_error.htm&-SortField=SorteerOpNaam&-SortORder=Ascending&-SortField=Themecountry&-SortORder=Ascending&-SortField=Category&-SortORder=Ascending&-max=100&-lop=AND&-op=cn&Search=&-op=cn&Themecountry=United+Kingdom&-Find=Start+Search&-op=cn&Category=Maps+And+Atlases

Clans

The Gathering of the Clans

http://www.tartans.com/

Scottish Radiance's Map of Scottish Clans

http://claymore.wisemagic.com/scotradiance/clanmap.jpg

Traditional Weapons

Historical Armed Combat Association

http://www.thehaca.com/

Museum Replicas, Ltd.

http://www.museumreplicas.com/

Custom Scottish Imports

http://home.iSTAR.ca/~jcra4d/index.html

Armour Class -- Master Craftsmen

http://www.armourclass.co.uk/

Clothing

Clothing of the Ancient Celts

http://www47.pair.com/lindo/Textiles_Page.htm

Evolution of the Kilt

http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/kilts/kilts.htm

Highland Attire: 1314 to late 1500's

http://www.lochdhu.com/histhigh/attire.htm

Chivalry Sports Renaissance Store

http://www.renstore.com/

Scotland On Line's "Tartans of Scotland" (w/Scottish Tartan's Society)

http://www.tartans.scotland.net

House of Tartan

http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/

Highland Games and Other Events
(For CA & NV events, you may always click on the green "Games, etc." button below.)

Scottish and Celtic Games Listings

http://www.maclachlans.org/games.html

Scottish Football [soccer]

http://www.scottishfootball.com/

Scottish Rugby

http://www.scottishrugby.com/

Scottish Golf

http://www.scottishgolf.com/index.cfm