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Be sure to watch the film En tierra extraña (In a Foreign Land), which looks at Spanish immigrants living in Edinburgh, Scotland's capital.

In the News . . .

Scotland’s little-known fourth "language" [Doric] -- BBCTravel (22 March 2021)
DNA Study Shows Celts Are Not a Unique Genetic Group -- BBC News (18 March 2015)
Three Centuries On, Scotland Decides to Stand with the U.K. -- Scout Report, September 19, 2014 -- Volume 20, Number 36
Scottish People's DNA Study Could 'Rewrite Nation's History' -- Guardian (14 August 2012)
Study Reveals 'Extraordinary' DNA of People in Scotland -- BBC News (17 April 2012)
The independence debate is revived in Scotland -- The Scout Report, January 20, 2012 | Volume 18, Number 3

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Maps
- Map of Scotland -- WorldAtlas
- Maps of Scotland: National Library of Scotland
cultures
UMD Library Catalogue
- JSTORE
The Library of Congress
- Global Gateway > Portals to the World > United Kingdom
country profiles
- United Kingdom -- CIA World Factbook
- United Kingdom -- U.S. Department of State
- United Kingdom -- Lonely Planet
  - Scotland
- United Kingdom -- BBC News
  - Scotland
- United Kingdom -- NationMaster.com
- United Kingdom -- Library of Congress Country Studies
- United Kingdom -- Wikipedia
  - Scotland
- United Kingdom -- CountryReports.org

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general information
- Adminet > World > Western Europe >
  - United Kingdom
timelines
- BBC News timelines >
  - United Kingdom
  - Scotland
- World News Atlas > Europe >
  - Scotland
holidays
- Holidays by Country >
  - United Kingdom
  - Scotland -- Q++ Studio
travel
- Lonely Planet Worldguide > Europe > Scotland
- Visit Britain -- British Department for Culture, Media and Sport

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national anthem
- national-anthems.net > Europe >
  - United Kingdom
  - Scotland
newspapers / newsnetworks specific to Scotland and its environs
- BBC News Headlines from Europe
  - The Media in The United Kingdom
- BBC News Headlines from the UK
  - The Media in the United Kingdom
- BBC
  - BBC Choice
  - BBC Four: Interviews
  - BBC News
    - World
    - Africa
    - Americas
    - Asia-Pacific
    - Europe
    - Middle East
    - South Asia
    - UK
  - BBC Online
  - BBC Science/Nature
  - BBC World Service
- Daily Mail (UK)
- The Telegraph
  - Telegraph.co.uk > news > worldnews > A to Z
- The Times
- ActivePaper Archive: The British Library Online Newspaper Archive
- AllYouCanRead.com > Newspapers > Europe >
  - United Kingdom
- The Internet Public Library > Newspapers > Europe >
  - United Kingdom
  - Scotland
- OnlineNewspapers.com >
  - United Kingdom
  - Scotland
- economist.com > countries >
  - Britain
  - Scotland

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newspapers / newsnetworks of regional and European scope
radio
- OneWorld Radio
- The World -- BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston

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Independence
- Scottish independence referendum plans published -- BBC News (25 Febraury 2010)
government/government resources
- The Embassy of the United Kingdom in the United States
- The Embassy of the United States in England
- U.S. International Information Programs: Europe and Eurasia -- U.S. policy and issues related to Europe and Eurasia
- The Politics of Devolution -- Open University
- Devolution Decade -- BBC Special Reports
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
The European Union >
European Union related WebSites

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language
- British English
- dictionaries from yourdictionary.com
  - Scottish

Wikipedia >
- Scottish language
A Dictionary of Gaelic Words and Phrases from Wester Ross (670 pp. Word document)
Scotland’s little-known fourth "language" [Doric] -- BBCTravel (22 March 2021)

food
- "Scotland," in Timothy G. Roufs and Kathleen Smyth Roufs. 2014. Sweet Treats around the World, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 289-293.
- eLook.org > European Recipes > Scotland
- Wikipedia
  - British cuisine
- Saveur: Savor a World of Authentic Cuisine > Scottish
- World Food Habits: Bibliography -- Robert Dirks
- Scotland -- Anthropology of Food-Food Science
- World Hearth Circle of International Cooking > Scottish
- Porridge with a drop of whisky - now that's comfort food -- Lady Claire Macdonald, MailOnline, Daily Mail (11 January 2010, pp. 32-33)
- practicallyedible.com
  - Scottish Food
- Fenton, Alexander. Food of the Scots. Birlinn, 2007.
- Brown, Catherine. Broths to Bannocks: Cooking in Scotland 1690 to Present Day. Lonndon: John Murray, 1990. Waverley, 2010).
- FitzGibbon, Theodora. A Taste of Scotland. London: Pan Books, 1970. (Lindsay, New edition, 1995.)
- Hope, Annette. Caledonian Feast. Canongate Classic, 2002.
- Haggis recipe 'should be tweaked' to beat US import ban -- BBCNews (09 November 2015)
- Red Deer Came to Scottish Islands From Unexpected Places -- Science (05 April 2016)
- Riddle of the red deer: Orkney deer arrived by Neolithic ship, study reveals -- Guardian (05 April 2016)
- Grigson, Jane. The Observer Guide to European Cookery. London: Michael Joseph, 1983.
religion
- Internet Sacred Text Archive >
- Sacred Destinations > Scotland -- Holly Hayes

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the arts
- Timeline of Art History >British Isles > -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- National Galleries of Scotland: Education
- The Bottle Imp ("exists to promote and support the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language") -- Association for Scottish Literary Studies
architecture
- Vernacular Architecture of the World: Great Buildings Online > Architecture of Europe > Architecture of the United Kingdom > Scotland -- Kevin Matthews and Artifice, Inc.
Glasgow
- Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

cities

Historic Cities > Countries > United Kingdom >

Edinburgh

Cities Around the World -- University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

archaeology
- Scientific evidence of an ancient invasion of Scotland from Ireland may have been uncovered by DNA techniques -- BBC News (2 April 2009)
- Astronomical observations at Kintraw in Argyll -- Past Horizons (10 July 2011)
- Archaeologists Uncover Pictish Seat of Power -- Past Horizons (16 November 2011)
- 14,000-year-old hunting kit found in Scotland -- msnbc (10 April 2009)
- Scotland's First People Left Behind Big Game Toolkit -- Discovery News (9 April 2009)
- Signs of earliest Scots unearthed -- BBC News (9 April 2009)
- ‘Rock art’ reveals language of ancient Scotland -- MSNBC (31 March 2010)
- New Written Language of Ancient Scotland Discovered -- Discovery News (31 March 2010)
- Scottish Island a 5000 Year Time Capsule -- PastHorizons (25 January 2012)
- DNA Study Shows Celts Are Not a Unique Genetic Group -- BBC News (18 March 2015)

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video/images

Photographic Archive -- University of St. Andrews

books
- Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts -- Center for Medieval Renaissance Studies, UCLA
- Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT) [online resource for Irish history, literature and politics]
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
  - Legends and Sagas
  - Wicca and Neo-Paganism
  - Celtic Folklore
    - Fairies
    - Scotland
      - Popular Tales of the West Highlands by J. F. Campbell
- Parman, Susan. Scottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village. Wadsworth, 2004.
other WebSites
- Lists of Scottish people -- Wikipedia
  - List of Scots
- ScotlandsPeople -- General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon
- Famous British People -- Wikipedia
- BRITISH SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A Retrospective Jonathan Spencer Annual Review of Anthropology. Volume 29, Page 1-24, Oct 2000 Abstract | Full Text | PDF (96 KB) | Related
- Glimpses of the Unmentionable in the History of British Social Anthropology E R Leach Annual Review of Anthropology . Volume 13, Page 1-24, Oct 1984 Citation | PDF (2061 KB) | Related
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Observer -- United Kingdom
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- National Statistics Online
- Historic Scotland -- Scottish Executive Education Deparatment
- Charting the Nation: Maps of Scotland, 1550-1740 -- Edinburgh University Library
- UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
- Geograph British Isles
- WEEE Man (Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment)
- History Trail -- BBC
- Global Voices Online -- Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School
- Open2.net -- The Open University and the BBC
- A Picture of Britain: an exhibition celebrating the British landscape -- Tate Online
- H-Net Discussion Networks -- Humanities and Social Sciences ONLINE
  - H-Albion -- British and Irish History
- British History Online > Scotland -- Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust
- Farming Today -- BBC
- Roma / Travelers [see also Gypsy and Traveler Studies] -- The Patrin Web Journal: Romani Culture and History
- Scottish Executive
- Collect Britain: Putting History in Place -- British Library
- Celtic Names of the British Isles -- daire.org
- British and Irish Archaeology
- "Nessie" and Other Monsters
- The Gatewy to Scotland -- Bruce M. Gittings
- Royal Scottish Geographical Society
- Online Historical Population Reports -- UK Data Archive, University of Essex
- Scottish Emigration Database -- University of Aberdeen
- Glaswegians Photo Archive -- Cranhill Arts Project
- British Empire Exhibition 1938 -- Digital Design Studio (DDS), Glasgow School of Art
- National Museums of Scotland: Explore
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