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world. Following a major re-organisation of the structure of the University of Edinburgh, the teaching of these programmes transferred to the department of Celtic and Scottish Studies within the School of Literature, Languages and Cultures. As of 2024, it offers 4-year MA programmes in Celtic (single and joint honours), Scottish Ethnology (single and joint honours), and Scottish Studies. The title, School of Scottish Studies, now applies to the archival holdings only, and since 2018, it has come under the management of the Centre for Research Collections. In 2010, a significant proportion of the archival audio field recordings were made available via the Tobar an Dualchais / Kist of Riches website, in partnership with the BBC, the National Trust for Scotland and Sabhal Mor Ostaig.
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In 1986, the department launched a full undergraduate honours degree programme in Scottish Ethnology, comprising courses in topics such as custom and belief, oral narrative, ethnomusicology, material culture, cultural revivalism, emigrant traditions, traditional drama, heritage and the supernatural
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for her contribution to Gaelic language and culture. Other staff who have worked in the School include Alan Bruford, Donald-Archie MacDonald, Emily Lyle, Ian Fraser, Peter Cooke, Margaret MacKay, John MacInnes, Gary West, John Shaw, Cathlin MacAulay, Neill Martin, Katherine Campbell and Will Lamb.
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is held at the School. The collection documents the now dead Perthshire Gaelic dialect.
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Scottish Tradition Series of recordings from the archive on Greentrax Records.
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The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women: From the Earliest Times to 2004
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Ewan, Elizabeth; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian (1 January 2006).
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From 1984 to 1995, the writer, singer and ethnologist,
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Emily Lyle - Scottish ballad scholar and researcher
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Photo of the Scottish Studies Archives on George Square, Edinburgh.
George Square
Scottish Gaelic
Scots
University of Edinburgh
George Square
Calum Maclean
Sorley MacLean
Hamish Henderson
Alan Lomax
Margaret Bennett
Martyn Bennett
Sàr Ghaidheal Fellowship
folklorist
Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray
The Singing Street
William Lindsay Renwick
Emily Lyle - Scottish ballad scholar and researcher
Scottish studies
Cencrastus
ISSN
0264-0856
School of Scottish Studies Archives
Oral History, Vol. 2, No. 1, (Spring, 1974), p62.
The Gatherer of Songs, 2002, Tom McKean
Archived
archive.today
http://www.electricscotland.com/familytree/magazine/junjul2005/story29.htm
Stornoway Gazette
"Celtic & Scottish Studies"

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