History of Scotland: Primary Documents

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• The Megalithic Portal

Commentary and images on ancient sites in Britain and Ireland.

Browse by Type of Site or try the database to locate specific sites.

(Facsimiles & commentary)

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• Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Scanning Project

Entire run of the society's proceedings, monographs, and Archaeologia Scotica.

(1792 to the present; facsimiles)

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• Uniting the Kingdoms?

Five principal sections that include primary documents online:

Scotland, England, France, Wales, and Ireland.

A well-designed site created by the UK Public Record Office

(1066 - 1603; facsimiles and transcriptions)

• For Freedom Alone: The Scottish Wars of Independence

(1286-1329; facsimiles, transcriptions, translations and commentary).

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• The Declaration of Arbroath

Scotland's declaration of independence

(1320; original Latin plus an English-language translation).

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• The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS)

Searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707.

(1235-1707; manuscripts and translations)

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Faits d'armes (Deeds of Arms)

• Accounts of French, Scot and English tournaments and battles
• Archival documents of Deeds of Arms

Edited by Steve Muhlenberger of Nipissing University (Canada)

(14th and early 15th centuries; transcriptions from Scots English, Middle English, Middle French and Latin; also English translations)

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• Popular Medieval English & Scottish Ballads

Each ballad transcription also appends a synopsis with its historical background.

A subpage of Mostly Medieval: Exploring the Middle Ages.

(Transcriptions and commentary)

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• Sources: Scotland

The 32 historic counties of Scotland.

From British History Online

(12th - 19th centuries; transcriptions]

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• Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots Now First Published from the Originals...Ed. Agnes Strickland

(London: Henry Colburn, 1845)

(1558-1576; text searchable Google Print facsimiles with updated English transcriptions)

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• Scotland's People

Huge and exemplary website combining a searchable database of wills and testaments

with full transcripts of the originals and some sample facsimiles.

Includes auxiliary helps such as guides to handwriting and to Scottish occupations.

(1500-1901; facsimiles and transcripts)

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• The Revolution in Scotland

(1689; transcriptions with modernised spelling)

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• The Highland Clearances

From Writs of Removal to individual diary entries.

(1790-1845; facsimiles)

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• Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

A searchable journal featured in the Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ).

(1843-1863; facsimiles)

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• Statistical Accounts of Scotland, 1791-1799 & 1845

A good source for those studying the social impact of industrialization.

(Facsimiles and maps; 1791-1799, 1845)

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• Scottish Emigration Database

Records of 21,000 passengers to non-European ports from 1890-1960.

Those emigrating from Glasgow and Greenock are limited to the first four months of 1923.

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• The Scotland Act: Scottish Parliament and Administration

Official documentation available by sections, parts, provisions, schedules and amendments.

(1998; transcripts)

• Scottish Devolution Decade

Marking 10 years of greater autonomy for Scotland through the process of devolution (1999-2009),
the BBC presents a repository of original reporting and commentary on the topic.

(1999-2009: blog, audio-video clips, legislation guide)

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• Guide to Law Online: Scotland

Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.

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• Charting the Nation: Maps of Scotland and Associated Archives

A project of the Edinburgh University Library

(1550-1740; facsimiles)

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• Digital Maps of Scotland

A project of the National Library of Scotland

(1560-1928; facsimiles)

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• Geograph British Isles

This project aims to collect a geographically representative photograph

for every square kilometre of the British Isles

(Photographic facsimiles from a searchable map)

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• Castles of Scotland

Searchable by ordnance survey map.

Courtesy of Castles in the UK.

(Maps & photo facsimiles)

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• Civic Heraldry: Scotland

(Facsimiles)

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EuroDocs > History of Scotland: Primary Documents

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See also History of the United Kingdom

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