Recent updates and additions
The twenty most recently updated or added projects are listed below
2026-07-29

Interactive Map of Burns Suppers WorldwideFeaturing more than 1000 Burns Suppers across all 7 continents and in 75 countries around the world, this resource seeks to record, illustrate, and offer new insights into the ways in which the tradition of the Burns Supper continues to be maintained, adapted and reimagined in the 21
st century.
2026-04-24

Romaunt of the RoseA digital edition of Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose (MS Hunter 409) featuring facsimile images, transcribed text and editorial notes.
2025-06-16

Iona's NamescapeA survey of the place-names of Iona and the nearby island of Staffa, presented on an interactive map.
2025-05-14

The Berwickshire Place-Name ResourceThe resource includes historical research for all Berwickshire place-names on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger map, including more than 1,600 place-names and 7,000 historical forms presented via a series of interactive maps.
2024-08-26

Readings in Early EnglishA selection of audio recordings of important Old English, Middle English and Early Modern English texts, complete with transcriptions and notes.
2024-08-06
2024-05-22

Speech StarA resource offering a visual approach to learning about speech sounds using real-time animations of vocal tract movements during speech.
2024-05-14

Dynamic DialectsDynamic Dialects contains an articulatory video-based corpus of speech samples from world-wide accents of English. Videos in this corpus contain synchronised audio, ultrasound-tongue-imaging video and video of the moving lips.

Seeing speechThe resource provides ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI) and lip video of speech, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) video of speech, and 2D midsagittal head animations based on MRI and UTI data.
2024-02-14
2023-10-24
2023-10-05

Dictionaries of the Scots LanguageThe Dictionaries of the Scots Language comprises electronic versions of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: the 12-volume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the 10-volume Scottish National Dictionary with its two supplements (1976 and 2005).
2022-12-19

Speak For YerselSpeak for Yersel is a crowdsourced linguistic survey that captures the different words, sounds and sentences used in Scots across Scotland and people’s reactions to these.

The Gentle Shepherd PerformancesThe Gentle Shepherd was first published in 1725, going on to become Allan Ramsay’s most celebrated work. This site provides details of the major performances from 1729 up to the present day.
2021-01-20

Anglo-Norman DictionaryA historical dictionary of Anglo-Norman French featuring more than 155,000 citations, fully dated and presented in chronological order per sense.
2020-09-01
2020-08-17

Place-Names of the Galloway GlensThis project, part of the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership, is dedicated to exploring the heritage of Kirkcudbrightshire through its place-names and presents place-names from seven historical parishes of Kircudbrightshire on a series of interactive maps.
2020-06-04

Correspondence of James CurrieThe database collects and itemises the correspondence written to and by James Currie, the first biographer and editor of Robert Burns.
2020-02-03

University of Glasgow StoryAn authoritative resource on the people and events that have shaped the University of Glasgow since its foundation in 1451.