USEFUL LINKS

The websites listed below are signposts for useful sources you might draw upon in the research stages of your People's Parish project. The list includes general web sources, online archive resources, dictionaries and opportunities for training. We have listed examples of existing place-based projects here.

Useful Websites

• Common Ground: https://www.commonground.org.uk

• Scottish Community Development Centre: http://www.scdc.org.uk/what/community-led-action-research

• Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Wiki: http://www.ichscotland.org

• Historic Scotland: www.historic-scotland.gov.uk

• Scotland's Towns: www.scotlandstowns.org

• Place Standard Tool: http://www.placestandard.scot

• Scottish Community Alliance: www.scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk

• Voluntary Arts Scotland: https://www.voluntaryarts.org/

Online Archive Resources

• Statistical Accounts of Scotland: www.stataccscot.edina.ac.uk

• Tobar an Dualchais / Kist O Riches: www.tobarandualchais.co.uk

• Am Baile - Highland History and Culture: www.ambaile.org.uk

• SCRAN: http://www.scran.ac.uk/

• The Song Collector's Collective: http://songcollectors.org/ 

• North East Folklore Archive: http://www.nefa.net/

• BBC Bliadhna nan Òran/BBC Year of Song: http://www.bbc.co.uk/alba/oran/orain/list/a_u/

• Scottish Screen Archive: www.movingimage.nls.uk

Dictionaries

• Gaelic Dictionary: http://learngaelic.net/dictionary/index.jsp

• Scots Language Dictionary: http://www.dsl.ac.uk/

Training

• Local Voices: www.localvoices.co.uk

• Scotland's Urban Past: https://scotlandsurbanpast.org.uk

• European Ethnological Research Centre: http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/research/research-centres/eerc