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From: "Simon Fowler" <>
Subject: [SoG] Fw: Online Access to the Statistical Accounts of Scotland
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 07:57:34 -0000


Colleagues (especially those with Scottish ancestry) might be interested in
this site.

Simon Fowler

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From: "EDINA Support" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 4:42 PM
Subject: Online Access to the Statistical Accounts of Scotland


> EDINA is pleased to announce the launch on 25 January of a new and free
web
> service - the online version of the old (first) and New (second)
Statistical
> Accounts of Scotland, first published in 1791-9 and 1845. This service is
> provided by EDINA on behalf of the Joint Board for the Statistical
Accounts
> of Scotland.
>
> Summary information about the database is given below.
>
> The EDINA Statistical Accounts of Scotland web service offers access to
> around 28,000 digital images of the pages and the facility to search all
> the text by keyword or phrase. More advanced facilities are planned for
> subscribing institutions. These developments might include improved
access
> to the maps, tables and diagrams, and links to a gazetteer and other
> digital data sets.
>
> The two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and the
1830s,
> are among the best contemporary reports of life during the agricultural
and
> industrial revolutions in Europe. Use this key source to study the
> emergence of the modern British State and the economic and social impact
of
> the world's first industrial nation or simply learn more about the area in
> which you or your ancestors lived.
>
> Based largely on information supplied by each parish church minister, the
> old Statistical Account and the New Statistical Account provide a rich
> record of a wide variety of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate,
> agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools, and the moral
> health of the people.
>
> Login at URL: http://edina.ac.uk/StatAcc
> For further details please email:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> EDINA URL: http://edina.ac.uk
> Edinburgh University Data Library Tel: 0131 650 3302
> Main Library Building, George Square Fax: 0131 650 3308
> Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Email:
>

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