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University creates digital archive of almost 500 years of Scottish parliamentary history.
In a project of unprecedented scale and complexity, researchers from the School of History at the University of St Andrews have created a fully searchable digital database of the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament from its first surviving act of 1235 to its dissolution by the Act of Union of 1707.
The publication online of The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 at www.rps.ac.uk makes freely available to all the 16.5 million words which document almost 500 years of Scottish parliamentary history.
The project has taken 11 years to complete and presents the records of the Scottish Parliament in a format that is amongst the most technologically advanced and most user-friendly of any historical record yet published. It was officially launched at the Scottish Parliament.