literature
Literature in Glasgow
Glasgow's Literary Bonds -
Offers a list and contextualised information on approximately 200 literary societies that were running in Glasgow during the long nineteenth century (here defined as 1800 to 1914).
Scottish Corpus Of Texts & Speech -
The Scottish Corpora project has created large electronic corpora of written and spoken texts for the languages of Scotland. The Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech (SCOTS) has been online since November 2004, and, after a number of updates and additions, has reached a total of nearly 4.6 million words of text, with audio recordings to accompany many of the spoken texts.
The Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing -
An electronic corpus of written and printed texts from the period 1700-1945, complementing the Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots (1450-1700) and the Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech (1945-present day). CMSW contains over 350 documents, containing approximately 5.5 million words of text overall.
Life in Old Letters - a collection of letters extracted from the corpus by Jenny Bann and used to illustrate 300 hundred years of Glasgow and local history.
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Thomas Crawford's Diary - a diary by Thomas Crawford, kept during his emigration by sea from Scotland to Australia in 1825, and presented here in blog format by Jenny Bann.
Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century -
Based at The Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow, we commenced work on the new multi-volume edition following an award of £1.1 million by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in 2011.
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