Some of the following websites are only available through subscription (or through libraries with subscriptions) – these are indicated below. At present there are more online resources for women’s literature than for women’s history.
History
- Genesis: a women’s history sources hub website
- Mary Queen of Scots: website of the Marie Stuart Society. Includes primary sources)
- Survey of Scottish Witchcraft: includes bibliography, database of accused witches, and other materials)
Primary and secondary sources
- Turgot, Life of Margaret Queen of Scotland
- Scottish Archive Network: a growing collection of primary source documents
- Scotland’s People: testaments and genealogical records (payment required to view documents)
- Electric Scotland: includes a growing collection of printed secondary sources, including several on Scottish women
- Internet Archive. Text Archive: online printed primary sources from Scottish Collection, University of Guelph, including some on women
- Suffrage in Scotland Educational Resource (SISTER).
A source resource for the Votes-for-Women campaign in Scotland, listing suffrage and suffragette archives.
Bibliographies
- Annotated Bibliography of Scottish Premodern Women’s History
- Medieval Scotland: includes material on women, links to primary sources
- Royal Historical Society Bibliography (Britain and Ireland)
- The Scotswoman Bibliography (1100-1750)
- WISH (Women in Scottish History): online bibliography
Glasgow Women’s Library
Literature
- Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (subscription)
- The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women’s Writing in the British Isles (subscription)
- Literature Online (subscription) (search on Scottish writers)
- Corvey Women Writers on the Web (CW3): an electronic guide to literature 1796-1834. Includes Scottish writers
- A Celebration of Women Writers (search on Scotland)
- The Association for Scottish Literary Studies: links to online articles
Research tools
- Dictionary of the Scots Language (searchable)