historical mapsopen source technologypOver the last four years, the National Library of Scotland has saved money and improved user access to online historical maps through the implementation of new open source technologies. These new tools include a new Viewer for MrSID images using OpenLayers, a ...
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. North-East Perth. An Archaeological Landscape. 300 × 210mm. Pp. x + 179 + many figs., pls. and maps. Edinburgh: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1990. ISBN 0-11-493446-0. 35·00 (p/b). - Volume 70 Issue 1 -...
(Scotland's national newspaper), clans Donald, MacMillan, MacLean and Forbes, used as a visual aid in classes at universities on both sides of the Pond including Edinburgh University, museums and in presentations by historical societies and numerous genealogists. Pleaseemail Mike McMillenif you ...
presence or habitat, published between 1524 and 2022 (Supplementary Fig.1andSupplementary Information). These were mapped to 1,196 locations across Europe and North Africa where fishable quantities of flat oysters and/or oyster biogenic reef habitats were historically described. This translated to oyst...
A native of Scotland, he settled on the lower ColumbiaRiver near this spot in the early 1850s after trying his luck in the goldfields of California. West built and operated sawmills, ran a general store and post office, built and managed a salmon cannery, developed and improved canning ...
Gregor, Walter 1881 Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland. Elliot Stock, London, UK. Google Scholar Gregor, Walter 1891 The Scotch Fisher Child. Folklore 2(1):73–86. Google Scholar Griffith, T. Riseley 1887 On the Races Inhabiting Sierra Leone. Journal of the Anthropo...
“George Washington had a multitude of long-lasting Scottish influences throughout his life,” said Curt Viebranz. “It is an honor and privilege for his Estate to again work with the Scottish people, through the generosity of the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish Government, to he...
It may sound strange to say that I needed a bit of quiet time this summer, but after all of the excitement of Scotland and the van life festival, I really needed a quiet couple of weeks. For the first week I chose to visit an area that I have driven past many times, on the M...
The site A Vision of Britain through Time from the the University of Portsmouthhas made historical boundary information for counties, parishes, and constituencies for England, Wales, and Scotland available in shapefiles format. The GIS data cover a variety of timeframes in the 1800s and 1900s...
(Linguistics) (functioning as singular) the study of language as it changes in the course of time, with a view either to discovering general principles of linguistic change or to establishing the correct genealogical classification of particular languages. Also called:diachronic linguisticsComparedescripti...