Recent updates and additions

The twenty most recently updated or added projects are listed below

2026-07-29

Interactive Map of Burns Suppers Worldwide
Interactive Map of Burns Suppers Worldwide

Featuring 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 21st century.

2026-04-24

Romaunt of the Rose
Romaunt of the Rose

A 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 Namescape
Iona's Namescape

A 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 Resource
The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource

The 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 English
Readings in Early English

A selection of audio recordings of important Old English, Middle English and Early Modern English texts, complete with transcriptions and notes.

2024-08-06

An Anthology of 16th and Early 17th Century Scots Poetry
An Anthology of 16th and Early 17th Century Scots Poetry

An anthology containing 155 Scots poems from the 16th and early 17th century. TEI XML source files are available to download for all poems.

2024-05-22

Speech Star
Speech Star

A resource offering a visual approach to learning about speech sounds using real-time animations of vocal tract movements during speech.

2024-05-14

Dynamic Dialects
Dynamic Dialects

Dynamic 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 speech
Seeing speech

The 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.
STAR Speech Therapy Animation and imaging Resource
STAR Speech Therapy Animation and imaging Resource

STAR provides speech and language therapy teachers and students with videos of speech to support learning around articulation, phonetics, transcription and speech sound disorders.

2024-02-14

Books and Borrowing: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers, 1750-1830
Books and Borrowing: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers, 1750-1830

Books and Borrowing uncovers and reinterprets the history of reading in Scotland in the period 1750 to 1830 through 144,000 borrowing records across 18 libraries.

2023-10-24

BOSLIT: The Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation
BOSLIT: The Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation

This project aims to rescue and secure BOSLIT, a digital bibliography launched during the 1990s and referencing more than 30,000 translations of Scottish texts since the medieval era.

2023-10-05

Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionaries of the Scots Language

The 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 Yersel
Speak For Yersel

Speak 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 Performances
The Gentle Shepherd Performances

The 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 Dictionary
Anglo-Norman Dictionary

A historical dictionary of Anglo-Norman French featuring more than 155,000 citations, fully dated and presented in chronological order per sense.

2020-09-01

Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow
Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow

This site allows users to work with images and data from the three registers that record student borrowings from Glasgow University Library during the period between March 1757 and January 1771.

2020-08-17

Place-Names of the Galloway Glens
Place-Names of the Galloway Glens

This 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 Currie
Correspondence of James Currie

The 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 Story
University of Glasgow Story

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