Items from 1891 onwards published by An Comunn Gàidhealach, which organises the annual Royal National Mòd
Antiquarian Books of Scotland
Books published after 1640, with a broad range of subjects and languages represented
Chalmers' 'Caledonia'
Five volumes about the counties of Scotland, published in 1887. Includes parish histories and a dictionary of places
From shore to shore
Celebrating Scotland's coastal communities with a small sample from the MacKinnon photographic collection from the late 1800s
Gazetteers of Scotland, 1803-1901
Browse and search 20 volumes of the most popular descriptive gazetteers of 19th-century Scotland, covering towns, counties, parishes, glens and more
Histories of Scottish families
Clan histories, memoirs and histories of Scottish families, mostly published in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Hutton drawings
Documents and drawings of Scottish castles, landscapes, churches and other religious buildings, collected by George Henry Hutton
John Francis Campbell of Islay
Journals, watercolours and sketches by Gaelic folklorist, artist, traveller, and scientist John Francis Campbell (1821 to 1885)
Map images
Further your family, local history or school project using this collection of thousands of zoomable maps of Scotland and beyond
Moving Image Archive
Watch films from Scotland's national moving images collection, which preserves over 100 years of Scottish history on film and video
OS Books of Reference
Volumes recording acreages of fields and land-use information for Scotland's parishes from 1855 to 1882
Pencils of light
Delve into photographic history with 300 images taken in the 1840s by the Edinburgh Calotype Club - the world's first photography society
Publications by Scottish clubs
Historical texts from the 12th-19th centuries, edited by Scottish clubs, including manuscripts, church records, diaries, legends and literary texts
Scotia depicta
Castles, abbeys, battle grounds, harbours and landscapes in Scotland are among the subjects in this 19th-century book of engravings and descriptions
Scotland's News
A small sample of newspapers from across Scotland, printed during the 18th to 20th centuries
Scottish History Society publications
Original source material illustrating Scotland’s history from the 12th to 20th centuries, published by the Scottish History Society, with authoritative commentaries
Scottish Post Office directories
Find where people lived and traded in Scotland between 1774 and 1911 by searching and browsing over 700 Post Office directories
Slezer's Scotland
Dozens of zoomable engravings show us Scottish towns, castles and palaces from the 17th-century, as seen by military surveyor John Slezer
The Blaeu Atlas
The first Atlas of Scotland, printed in 1654, containing 49 engraved maps, and 154 pages of descriptive text translated from Latin
The Duncan Street Explorer
Photos, audio recordings, floor plans and more help tell the story of the famous Bartholomew mapmakers of Edinburgh
The Lyon in Mourning
A contemporary account of the Jacobite rising of 1745 to 1746 using eye-witness interviews and letters
The spread of Scottish printing
Trace the spread of printing across Scotland from 1508 to 1900. Read an early item produced in 73 of the first printing towns
Thomas Annan's Glasgow
Photographs of Glasgow taken by Thomas Annan in the 1860s, with related maps and downloadable learning activities
