The Scottish Emigration Database
What is the Scottish Emigration Database?
Since
the 1980s
scholarly research into emigration from the British Isles has led to
the publication of a substantial body of monographs, articles and
collections of essays, which have addressed the subject from a variety
of thematic, chronological, regional and international
perspectives. The Scottish Emigration Database is the product
of
an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project based at
the University of Aberdeen’s AHRC Centre
for Irish and
Scottish
Studies from January 2003 to
March 2005. The Data
Compilation and
Analysis Project: Diaspora Studies was one of seven projects funded
through the Centre’s Diaspora
Programme.
The database seeks to identify patterns of movement from Scottish ports
between 1890 and 1960 using information transferred digitally from the
passenger manifests of the Board
of Trade’s Statistical
Department (BT 27) held at The
National
Archives in Kew, London. It
contains the records of 21,090 passengers and adds a unique
quantitative dimension to the scholarship of the Research
Institute of
Irish and Scottish Studies.
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