http://www.researchbuzz.org/ en-us tara@researchbuzz.com 2004-12-30T12:31:01-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/national_library_of_scotland_rss_feed.html The National Library of Scotland has an RSS Feed at http://www.nls.uk/news/feed.xml. Woooooooot.... 2255@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2004-12-30T12:31:01-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/the_scotsman_launches_a_digital_archive.html The Scotsman has launched a digital archive of their newspaper going back to 1817 and going through 1900. Though it does cost to access articles, searching is fahree and there's... 2194@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2004-12-01T07:36:38-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/online_database_of_scots_texts_available_.html It's called SCOTS, and it stands for Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech. It includes about 400 texts from Scots to Scottish English. It was assembled by the Arts and... 2193@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2004-12-01T07:04:38-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/uk_immigrant_records_to_go_online.html Kablenet is reporting ( http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/Frontpage/80F78772D6FA3CD780256F01003860A4?OpenDocument ) that the records of over 50,000 immigrants to the UK are going online by March 2005. The naturalizations listed will span from 1844-1930 and... 1964@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2004-09-01T08:35:51-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/web_site_lists_british_births_deaths_marriages_but_youll_pay_.html If you're looking for information on British war dead and you don't mind filling out a somewhat snarky registration and paying some moolah, you might be interested in the Web... 1931@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2004-08-16T08:06:03-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/historical_directories_in_the_uk_.html I'm not sure this is complete yet, but there's enough to be seen at the Digital Library of Historical Directories that you'll be browsing a while. It's available at http://www.historicaldirectories.org/... 1833@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2004-07-12T08:40:16-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/library_of_scotland_offers_broadsides_from_17th_to_the_20th_century.html The Library of Scotland has a new online exhibit available, a collection of almost 1800 broadsides dating from 1650 to 1910. The exhibit, called "The Word On the Street" is... 1717@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2004-06-01T08:22:12-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/online_scottish_dictionary_launched.html Dundee University has launched a Scottish dictionary that incorporates both the twelve-volume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the ten-volume Scottish National Dictionary. It's available at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/ . The... 1558@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2004-03-29T01:09:09-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/archive_for_films_shot_in_scotland.html I admit it, when I think of films, "Scotland" does not immediately pop into my mind. But there's enough of Scotland's national film archive to create an entire site, which... 585@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2003-11-10T10:21:56-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/british_pathe_launches_photo_archive_.html Remember that British Pathe newsreel archive that was covered in ResearchBuzz not too long ago? Now from the same source comes a database of over 12 million historic photographs. The... 455@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2003-10-13T02:39:13-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/nls_expands_their_maps_of_scotland_collection.html The Nat. Library of Scotland has expanded their online Maps of Scotland collection to include another 500 zoomable map images. The new maps cover the period 1776-1928. Materials in the... 363@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2003-09-25T09:50:48-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/uk_central_government_archives_launched.html The National Archives of the UK launched the UK Central Government Web Archive on September 24th. Currently the site preserves fifty government Web sites (though they're not all available, and... 362@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2003-09-25T09:44:31-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/a_roundup_of_cool_researchy_things.html The National Library of Scotland now has an RSS feed for its news ( http://www.nls.uk/news/feed.xml )... Feedster now offers Sherlock support (you can get it from the front page: http://www.feedster.com/... 863@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2003-08-15T12:00:01-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/survey_maps_of_scotland_towns.html The National Library of Scotland has released a digital library of over 1,900 sheets of surveys covering 62 towns surveyed between 1847 and 1895. It's available at http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/townplans/index.html . You... 926@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2003-08-06T12:01:00-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/playbills_of_the_theatre_royal_edinburgh.html The National Library of Scotland is at it again! This time they've put together over 240 playbills from the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh between 1800-1850. This new collection is available... 622@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2003-06-17T12:01:00-05:00