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Ordnance Survey large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - National Library of Scotland edit / delete

High-res scans of the old town plans. I live on Thorter Row, which was built about ten years ago; from looking at the maps of Dundee here, I learned that there used to be a Thorter Row in the city centre about a hundred years before that...

to dundee history maps scotland ... on 06 August 2012

ScotlandsPlaces edit / delete

Handy location-based search engine for collections of historical photos, etc. (The question I was trying to answer was "what did Dundee City Square look like before it was flattened early in the last century", which is the sort of thing this appears to be good for.)

to dundee history photos scotland ... on 06 August 2012

scot-rail.co.uk » Railways of Scotland edit / delete

Lots of information.

to rail scotland transport ... on 30 July 2011

Freedom Come Aa Ye - Dick Gaughan's Song Archive edit / delete

The song I've been failing to learn the lyrics for at the Fish... Dick Gaughan's excellent web site comes through again.

to dick-gaughan folk music scotland scots song ... on 01 April 2011

Aye Can - Scots language - Scottish Census 2011 edit / delete

Training for the census questions -- but the useful thing is the big collection of recordings of Scots speakers from different areas. (The collection is much bigger than the links suggest; try changing the number in the URL!)

to language scotland scots ... on 05 March 2011

mgill folk - Iain MacGillivray's web site edit / delete

... who did the version of "Red is the Rose" that I'm looking for.

to folk music scotland ... on 28 February 2011

National Burns Collection edit / delete

Burns' poetry and songs. This has individual songs scanned from various books, which is quite useful if you don't feel like hunting through the scans on archive.org or Google Books. On the downside, it only includes Burns' versions of the songs -- which (and it's probably safe to admit this now Burns Night has passed) aren't always an improvement on the originals; compare "This Ae Night" with the reconstructed "Cold Haily Windy Night"...

to burns folk music poetry scotland song ... on 27 February 2011

Music at the NLS : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive edit / delete

Scans of 19th-century Scottish music books. Want the original "Both Sides the Tweed"? It's here, along with seemingly every other folk song I've ever learned.

to etext folk music scotland song ... on 27 February 2011

Tobar an Dualchais - index edit / delete

Notably especially for the field recordings of folk songs. The player uses an irritating Flash interface, but peering at the source will reveal URLs to mp4 files.

to folk history music scotland scots ... on 30 January 2011

The Word on the Street - Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland edit / delete

Some of which are well-known folk ballads (e.g. there's a version of "Lily of the West" here).

to folk history music publishing scotland ... on 05 December 2009