Country House Database
Country houses in the British Isles from the late medieval period to ca. 1850, together with an index to all the families so far traced as having occupied them. Organised by region (England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, islands) (Robin Alston)
Early modern holiday calendar for England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
(Kristen McDermott)
Management or semi-independence? The government of Scotland from 1707-1832
seminar paper by Alex Murdoch
Institute of Historical Research e-seminars (1996-98, exact date unknown)
Kings and Queens of Scotland to 1603
Outline information about medieval and 16th century Scottish monarchs, from the official web site of the British Monarchy
Maps of Scotland
Images of ‘the earliest surviving detailed maps of Scotland, made by Timothy Pont over 400 years ago, in the 1580s and 1590s’. There is also biographical material about Pont, and useful essays on what the maps reveal about facets of late sixteenth-century Scotland (National Library of Scotland)
Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Earl of Bothwell
Online essay from BBC History looking at the ‘web of intrigue’ surrounding the murder of Lord Darnley (Saul David)
Pre-modern Scottish Women
Bibliography (Historia Scotarum)
The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707
online edition of the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707; fully searchable database includes a wide range of records. Also provides historical background, tables of statutes, bibliography, etc (Scottish Parliament Project, University of St Andrews)
Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe, 1580-1707
a database of information relating to about 5000 people from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales who migrated to or worked in Denmark-Norway and Sweden-Finland (St Andrews University)
Scottish Chapbooks
a collaborative project to compile a master database of 18th/19th-century Scottish chapbooks; in its early stages, offers information about Scottish chapbooks and access to various chapbook holdings (University of South Carolina’s G. Ross Roy Collection/Glasgow University)
Institution and ideology: the Scottish estates and resistance theory
seminar paper by JH Burns
Institute of Historical Research e-seminars (1996-98, exact date unknown)
Scottish Handwriting
website providing online tuition in palaeography for historians, genealogists and other researchers in reading manuscript historical records written in Scotland (though the usefulness of the site is not limited to those reading Scottish sources) in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, with the emphasis on practical help to improve skills (Scottish Archives Network)
Scottish towns
An early set of maps of Scottish towns, illustrating “special characteristics that made a town a town” (National Library of Scotland)
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland
Digitised version of an important primary source for Scotland in the 1790s and 1830s, covering ‘a wide variety of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools, and the moral health of the people’ (EDINA) (NB: unfortunately, only a limited version of this service is now available without subscription)
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft
an electronic resource for the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in Scotland, consisting of a database of all people known to have been accused of witchcraft in early modern Scotland, along with supporting material (Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman)
The Scottish Contribution to the Enlightenment
seminar paper by John Robertson
Institute of Historical Research e-seminars (1996-98, exact date unknown)
Uniting the Kingdoms? Britain 1066-1603
online exhibit asking: ‘How did the inhabitants of the island of Britain think of themselves in the five and a half centuries between 1066 and 1603? Did they see themselves as British, or as English, Scottish or Welsh? Or was a local identity more important? And what did English dominance mean for Ireland and France, which had never been part of Britain?’ It looks at interactions in politics, warfare, religion, trade and everyday life between England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and England’s French territories. Including images of over seventy key documents. It’s divided into five main ‘galleries’: Scotland, Wales, England, Ireland and France. There are also maps; and links to further materials within the text (The National Archives)
The Word on the Street: Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland
A great resource for the ‘tabloids of their day’, the street literature of Scotland from 1650 to 1910 (National Library of Scotland)
