**With apologies for cross-posting***

 

You may be interested to know about our blog for the Statistical Accounts of Scotland. We have just published a post on the languages spoken in Scotland during the late 18th and early 19th centuries ( http://statacc.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2018/06/14/scotlands-languages-gaelic-scots-and-english/). We have very much enjoyed pulling out lots of interesting material for you to check out.

 

Previous blog posts include those on:

- the influence of Scotland on the world

- song and dance

- food and drink.

 

The Statistical Accounts of Scotland (1791-1845) (http://stataccscot.edina.ac.uk/static/statacc/dist/home) is an online service providing access to scanned pages of the original ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Statistical Accounts. There are accounts for all of Scotland’s 938 parishes, as well as considerable additional material form the original publications, such as illustrations, maps, county observations and appendixes on topics of special interest. Based largely on information supplied by each parish church minister, the Statistical Accounts records a wide variety of topics on Scotland and its population and so provides a rich resource for research in the humanities.

 

If you would like more information on this resource take a look at our website or contact myself. We are also on Twitter (@statacc).