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The Carmichael Watson collection in Edinburgh University Library, centred on the papers of the pioneering folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912), is the foremost collection of its kind in the country, and is crucial to understanding the customs, storytelling traditions, poetry, songs and general lore of the Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland. It offers us fundamental insights into the creation of Carmichael's magnum opus, the Carmina Gadelica, his anthology of Hebridean charms, hymns and songs forming a key text not just in Gaelic ethnology, but in the establishment of the 'Celtic Twilight' movement.

But the value of the collection goes far beyond literary studies. It offers exciting potential for interdisciplinary cooperation, learning and research throughout the local and scholarly communities, covering history, theology, literary criticism, philology, place-names, archaeology, botany and environmental studies.

Through cataloguing, indexing, transcribing, translating, digitisation and conservation, this project aims to open up and make accessible this important collection to the academic and broader community. Alongside those activities sits a programme of dissemination and collaboration.



The Carmichael Watson Project is funded by .
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[Image of Alexander Carmichael in logo courtesy of National Museums of Scotland]
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