RESEARCH RESOURCES

We offer a range of advice and resources to support and enable research into Scotland’s historic environment:

  • We look after over 43,000 collections objects, and over five million physical and digital archival holdings.  You can find out more about these collections as a resource for research via trove.scot

  • We offer grant funding to academic and community partnerships to support research into local or national heritage

  • We publish a range of technical reports, advice notes, and general interest publications stemming from our research activity

  • We offer advice to community groups and researchers looking to find out more about the heritage and places that interests them

  • We offer resources to teachers and lecturers to support learning at all education levels

  • We make data and information about Scotland’s historic environment available to researchers.  Find out more here

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