Friday, August 27, 2004

For those interested in Scottish History (and who among us is not?) there are several new or upgraded web sites of interest. At http://edina.ac.uk/statacc/ you can find the entire text of the 1791-1799 and 1845 editions of the Scottish Statistical Account, a comprehensive and often quirky contemporary account of Scottish life on a parish-by-parish basis. The indispensible Dictionary of the Scots Language is available at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl. At http://data.scottishscreen.com/home/ the Scottish Screen Archive offers clips from archival film footage, while the Virtual NLS at http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/index.html offers a wonderful array of online exhibitions from the collection of the National Library of Scotland -- including not just a fine rendition of Parson James Gordon's 1660 map of Aberdeen (always a big draw), but a fascinating three-way look at the lives of a general, a nurse, and a regular soldier in World War I.