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Barbara MorrisService Co-ordinator
Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online(1791-99 and 1834-45)
Collaboration between academic and public sectors
Email: [email protected]
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Collaborative Working
Joint Board for the Statistical Accounts of Scotland
Scottish Library and Information Council
Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries
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Map of ScotlandNew Statistical Account (1845)
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What are the Statistical Accounts?
• First (Old) Statistical account 1791-99, a contemporary “Domesday Book” for Scotland (in 21 volumes)
• Second (New) Statistical Account 1834-45 (15 volumes)
• detailed descriptions of 938 parishes compiled by clergy
• statistical tables, maps, and diagrams
• important source material in the critical 40-50 years during the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions topography • climate • botany • population • disease • agriculture • wages • architecture • roads • schools • fishing • minerals • remarkable occurrences • morals
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Service Preparation
• 29,000 pages scanned a SCURL initiative funded by the JISC
• 29,000 scanned page images typed to permit keyword/phrase searchingfunded by the National Archives of Scotland
• interface developed by EDINA
• tested in public and academic institutions
• FREE service launched January 2001
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The ‘Old’ Statistical Account of the Parish of Ceres, Fife
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Fiars in Berwick
(price of grain)
1689-1792
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Census data, 1785-93
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Future developments
• Guided by an Editor and the Joint Board for the Statistical Accounts of Scotland
• New features from October 2001 -
• Access to re-typed text for “cut-and-paste” (FREE)
• Advanced searching e.g. statistical tables (SUBSCRIPTION)
• New features from 2002 - Links via graphic front-end to historic maps, place-name gazetteers, (SUBSCRIPTION)
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To use this FREE service, log into the Statistical Accounts on the Web at:
http://edina.ac.uk/
To find out about future developments, email: