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Scottish
History: 14 to 18 years
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National Archives of Scotland: Based in Edinburgh, NAS has one of the most varied collection of archives in the British isles. It is the main archive for sources of the history of Scotland as a separate kingdom, her role in the British isles and the links between Scotland and many other countries over the centuries. The NAS holds records spanning the 12th to the 21st centuries, touching on virtually every aspect of Scottish life. The NAS is the repository for the public and legal records of Scotland but also holds many local and private archives.
Scotland on Film: This BBC website provides a collection of clips from film, television and radio on 20th Century Scottish life. You can also leave your own memories and share your thoughts of life in Scotland on the forum. Subjects covered include Home Front & Wartime, Rural Life, Food & Drink, Home Life, Childhood & Schooldays, Work, Living & Loving, Health and Leisure. This year Scotland on Film has won the prestigious New Media Award from the International Federation of Television Archives for the digital archive on the site.
Scottish History Online: The Scottish History Club was originally formed during 2001 to allow visitors who have a serious interest in Scottish History to be able to interact with each other and share their knowledge, research, theories, photographs and general enthusiasm for Scottish History with others within a website that was ‘password protected’. The Club has basically two elements the ‘Club Web Site’ and the ‘Club Community Site’. The Community is by far more interactive with the ability to post your own images, contributions and have online discussions with other members, whether in the chat room or posted up on the site.
Scotland 1700-1960: Biographies of sixty-eight important people born in Scotland. People featured include George Birkbeck, Henry Brougham, John Buchan, Thomas Carlyle, Andrew Carnegie, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Bruce Glasier, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Keir Hardie, David Octavius Hill, Joseph Hume, Jennie Lee, John MacAdam, Mary Macarthur, Ramsay MacDonald, Margaret McMillan, John Menzies, Thomas Muir, Allan Pinkerton, Allan Ramsay, John Reith, Marie Stopes, Thomas Telford and James Watt.
In Search of Scotland: This website was produced as a companion to a ten part BBC series on the history of Scotland. Sections include: Mysterious Ancestors, Birth of a Nation, Impact of the Monk, Wars of Independence, Renaissance & Information, The European Lifeline, Making of the Union, The Enlightenment, The Victorian Achievement and Modern Scotland.
Electronic Scotland: This website attempts to bring together Scots and Scots descendants from around the world. There are links to thousands of web pages on Scottish history and clans as well as people and places of Scots descent. It also includes stories in Real Audio to listen to, travel information on Scotland and a Web Board community in which you can message and chat with other visitors.
Highland Clearances: In the second-half of the 18th century, Scottish society in the Highlands suffered an economic. Subsistence farming could no longer sustain an increasing population and this was aggravated by the policy of many major landowners of clearing their land for sheep farming by the expulsion of crofters and the burning of their cottages. This website provides a detailed look at these events.
Wars of Independence: Scotland and England are two nations divided by their experience of history. That divide was never wider than during the Wars of Independence in the 13th and 14th centuries when a chance event brought an era of relative friendship to an end in violent conflict. This website produced by the BBC includes an overview of the conflict plus detailed biographies of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
Gazetteer
for Scotland is a vast geographical database, featuring details of towns,
villages, bens and glens from the Scottish Borders to the Northern Isles. The
first comprehensive gazetteer produced for Scotland since 1885, it includes
tourist attractions, industries and historic sites, together with histories
of family names and biographies of famous people associated with Scotland. The
network of connections between all of these entries make this gazetteer unique.
With at least 10,177 detailed entries, the Gazetteer is already the largest
Scottish resource available on the web, yet it is growing constantly, with some
117 entries added or updated in the last week alone.
Massacre of Glencoe: On the 13th February, 1692 Macdonald clan was massacred by the Campbells. The clan chief and more than thirty of his followers were killed. This website gives you the historical background that led up to the massacre as well as details of the massacre and the repercussions as a result of it.
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Educational Websites
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