Understanding Global Cultures

In the news . . .

Signs of earliest Scots unearthed -- BBC News (9 April 2009)

Scotland's First People Left Behind Big Game Toolkit -- Discovery News (9 April 2009)

14,000-year-old hunting kit found in Scotland -- msnbc (10 April 2009)

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Maps
- Lonely Planet Map of Scotland
- 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
- 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
- GlobalEDGE: International Resource Desk > Country Insights >
  - United Kingdom
  - Scotland
- topix.net » Front Page » World News » Europe » United Kingdom » 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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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

food
- eLook.org > European Recipes > Scotland
- Scottish Cuisine -- Wikipedia
  - Cookbook:Cuisine of Scotland
- 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
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)

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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
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
United Kingdom Slides

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