We won a Business Excellence award from Acquisition International as “The Best Scottish Heritage Media Archive 2020”
Discover the Heritage of Scotland
Through a unique digital film archive featuring a past way of life in Scotland
Discover the Heritage of Scotland
Featuring the Scots Language and the rich Doric Dialect within our validated educational
resources
Discover the Heritage of Scotland
Meet and walk in the footsteps of your Scottish ancestors of the late 1800s – mid 1990s
Discover the Heritage of Scotland
Experience a way of life which connects you to the past and defines who you are
History
A rare insight into Scotland’s past. Over 500 hours of digital film footage about how life was from 1890s – to the present day in rural Scotland. You can bring the dynamic of film to your Scottish family history which will show you how your Scottish ancestors lived and worked. We can also capture the history of your business for your archive.
Education
The digital video clips are available for all Scottish schools via SCRANs digital portal. Many schools already use the validated educational resource video clips to address the outcomes and experiences within the Curriculum for Excellence.
Visitor Attractions
Unique themed digital Scottish heritage video footage, can be made available in any world language, for visitor attractions, museums and libraries on the heritage of Scotland. This can transform static displays with authentic, relevant digitised Scottish culture on film uniquely produced by Carney Heritage Productions.
Welcome To Carney Heritage Productions
“Far Oor Local History And Scots Language Comes The Gither!”
About this unique Scottish film archive
This Scottish Heritage website presents a digital film archive of footage which captures the cultural identity of the “ordinary” man and woman’s account of his/her life and work from the 1890s to the present day in Scotland.
The authentic digital video clips, allow you to connect with, and walk in the footsteps of your Scottish ancestors.
This unique Scottish heritage archive has received the highest academic and educational endorsements.
Carney Heritage Productions invite you to browse the brief Scottish video excerpts from this site and brouse all our 2110 clip thumbnails and descriptions . Carney Heritage productions hope that you will find clips which interest you within our listings. From that point you can contact Don Carney at info@scottishheritage.co.uk to discuss your requirements. Our entire archive is for sale either as clips or in its entirety. We are really keen to have a conversation in relation to how we can make this collection more meaningful to you, whether at a personal, educational , visitor attraction, curatorial or business level.
Don Carney
The Fairmer’s Wife
The Fairmer’s wife played a leading role in the famila n on the fairm. She hid t dee aa the cookin on the open peat fire, far she bilied aa the water t dee the wikly wash. It wis her that hid t feed the hens n milked the coos twice a day.
The Clydesdale Horse
The horsemin n his Clydesdales wid wark on aa Scottish fairms up t the introduction o the tractor fae the early 1900s. This skilled man n his pair hid a strong workin bond, he kint them and they kint him. The first horsemin aboot a placie wis quite a chiel on the fairm n roon aboot his locil area.
Steam Power
Drift back t Victorian Scotland far the power source that drove Scottish industrialisation wis that o steam. Engines like s een wis owned bee the showmen faa travilled Scotland bringing the fun n fascination o the fair t your forefathers.
Schoolin’
As rural communities hid their ain school far the country loons n quines sat at desks like s using a bit o slate t write on wee a slate pencil caed a skillie. Education wis delivered b a strict Missie faa ruled the pupils wee fear. That system o education canna be criticised over muckle since monny pupils, oor ancestirs, wint on t lead Scotland t extra-ordinary heichts.
To thank you for the 6 DVD’s which I ordered on Monday and were delivered yesterday. We spent a very pleasant evening watching two of them. They are brilliant. Only problem is I remember a lot of the things when they were happening and it reminds me how old I am getting!! From a satisfied customer Oct 2018
Bill Henderson
Emeritus Professor Henry Ellington of the Robert Gordon University and the person tasked with writing the book which was published in 2002, under the title ‘The Robert Gordon University – A History’ has made the following statement about Don Carneys contribution, as a past academic at RGU, to our North East life.
“Indeed, the author would opine that he has probably done as much to promote and preserve knowledge and understanding of pre-1950’s NE rural life as Lewis Grassic Gibbon.”
Professor Henry Ellington
/ Robert Gordon University
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