School of Scottish Studies
27-29 George SquareEdinburgh
EH8 9LD
Tel: +44 131 650 4167
Fax: +44 131 650 4163
Email: Scottish.Studies@ed.ac.uk
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School of Scottish Studies27-29 George SquareEdinburgh EH8 9LD Tel: +44 131 650 4167 Fax: +44 131 650 4163 Email: Scottish.Studies@ed.ac.uk |
The School of Scottish Studies was established in 1951 by the University of Edinburgh as a centre for interdisciplinary research on Scottish subjects. It is housed in attractive Georgian buildings within the Arts complex of the University.
The School is the only Scottish institution that undertakes the systematic and extensive recording of folklore and regional ethnology in the field. Its sound and manuscript archives, unique in the British Isles and ranking with national archives in Europe and elsewhere, contain large and steadily growing collections of traditional songs, tales, instrumental music and information on traditional and changing ways of life. There are photographic, film, and videotaped archives and a large collection of material for the study of place-names.
Since 1996, the School's innovative PEARL project has used Real Audio and other internet technologies to provide real-time access to excerpts taken from the Tocher magazine and other resources.
The Linguistic Survey of Scotland (Gaelic and Scots) is based in the School, as is the Institute for Historical Dialectology.