Here you will find tons of information on the history of Scotland, the Scots and Scots-Irish as well as people and places of Scots descent around the world. We also have lots of information on Scottish clans and families and their tartans and genealogy.

History is fun, exciting and tremendously interesting. When we first started our site we focused on the general history of Scotland and the Highlands of Scotland and incorporated biographies of significant Scots.

We then moved on to more specific history on various areas such as the Scottish regiments, religion, missionaries, individual places in Scotland, history of our music, sport, education, legal system, medicine, nature, humour, social history, trades, heraldry, and lots more including tons of information on Scots around the world.

Today the Scots around the world has become a major part of the site as it's truly amazing what Scots contributed to other countries. We first emigrated throughout Europe but then went on to Africa and the new world of North America and Australasia and then down into South America. We constantly look for additional material and we do post up some dedicated history on some countries around the world to let you see what the country was like when the Scots were moving there to settle.

Added to all this we have sections where we have over 800 children's stories, thousands of poems and stories sent in by our visitors, food, drink and recipes, many articles from our visitors on a range of topics.  We also have an Article Service where visitors can add their own articles on just about any subject they wish. A range of Services such as our Postcard service and ScotGenealogy Family Tree service. To this we have our own Electric Scotland Aois Community where visitors can engage in social networking and play any of our over 300 Arcade games and all while listening to Celtic Music Radio.

We also have thousands of Pictures of Scotland for you to enjoy and our own 6 volume Gazetteer to look up places in Scotland. We also have our own Historic Places section with lots of pictures of castles and other historic buildings.

Electric Scotland publishes many antiquarian books to the site on Scottish history or subjects to do with Scotland and Scots around the world. For completed books see our Online Books Page where we have over 250 publications that we've scanned into the site. (We do announce each chapter added to the site on our What's New page). Should you be interested in keeping up to date with what's added each week you can also sign up for our weekly email newsletter.

Our menu in the header will take you to the major sections of the site where you can browse our tens of thousands of web pages but would also recommend using our site search engine to find information. We add content daily so do come back to see what we are getting up to or take our feed to keep abreast with what's new on the site.

Alastair McIntyre, KCTJ, FSA Scot
Director, Scottish Studies Foundation