Dr Eila Williamson
- Affiliate in Celtic & Gaelic (Celtic & Gaelic)
email:
Eila.Williamson@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 111, 5 Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow
Publications
2025
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, Williamson, Eila
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X and Hough, Carole
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-3450
(2025)
The Place-Names of Berwickshire. Volume One. The Border Parishes.
Series: The survey of Scottish place-names (9).
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781915774279
2021
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2021)
The Ordnance Survey Name Books: a 'treasure-trove' for toponymists.
Scottish Archives, 25-26,
pp. 42-55.
2020
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, Clancy, Thomas Owen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-4580, McNiven, Peter and Williamson, Eila
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2020)
The Place-Names of Clackmannanshire.
Series: The survey of Scottish place-names, VIII.
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781907730863
2018
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2018)
Names of salmon pools in Berwickshire.
Onomastica Uralica, 12,
pp. 87-100.
Aitken, Brian, Hough, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-3450, Taylor, Simon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Williamson, Eila
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2018)
The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource.
[Website]
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2018)
Literary influences on Berwickshire place-names.
Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 39,
pp. 21-56.
2017
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, McNiven, Peter and Williamson, Eila
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2017)
The Place-Names of Kinross-shire.
Series: Survey of Scottish place-names, 7.
Shaun Tyas.
ISBN 9781907730580
2016
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2016)
The Funeral of Walter Scott, First Earl of Buccleuch: a grand ceremonial occasion.
Medieval English Theatre, 38,
pp. 3-21.
2015
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2015)
'Hence the name': Berwickshire parishes along the Anglo-Scottish Border as described in the Ordnance Survey Name Books.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 9,
pp. 83-96.
2014
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2014)
Review of Mairi Cowan, Death, Life, and Religious Change in Scottish Towns, c.1350-1560.
International Review of Scottish Studies, 39,
pp. 46-48.
[Book Review]
2010
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2010)
The Log Book of John Anderson - Senior Navigator in the VOC 1640-1643.
[Audio]
Boardman, S. and Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X (Eds.)
(2010)
The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland.
Series: Studies in Celtic History.
Boydell: Woodbridge.
ISBN 9781843835622
Enthoven, V., Murdoch, S. and Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X (Eds.)
(2010)
The Navigator: The Log of John Anderson, VOC Pilot-Major 1640-1643.
Series: European expansion and indigenous response.
Brill: Leiden.
ISBN 9789004189317
2009
Boardman, S., Davies, J.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019 and Williamson, E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X (Eds.)
(2009)
Saints' Cults in the Celtic World.
Series: Studies in Celtic history.
Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK.
ISBN 9781843834328
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2009)
The cult of the Three Kings of Cologne in Scotland.
In: Boardman, S., Davies, J. and Williamson, E. (eds.)
Saints' Cults in the Celtic World.
Series: Studies in Celtic history (25).
Boydell: Woodbridge, pp. 160-179.
ISBN 9781843834328
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2009)
Index of authors and titles, volumes 51-60: 2000-2009.
Innes Review, 60(2),
pp. 193-218.
2007
Boardman, Stephen, Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X and Davies, John
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019
(2007)
Database of Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland.
[Website]
2006
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X and McGavin, J.J.
(2006)
Crossing the Border: the provincial records of southeast Scotland.
In: Douglas, A. and MacLean, S.-B. (eds.)
REED in Review: Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years.
Series: Studies in early English drama (8).
University of Toronto: Toronto, pp. 157-177.
ISBN 9780802038272
2004
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2004)
Review of Graham Caie, Roderick J. Lyall, Sally Mapstone and Kenneth Simpson (eds), The European Sun: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature. University of Strathclyde, 1993 (East Linton, 2001).
Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, 54(1),
pp. 208-210.
[Book Review]
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2004)
Review of Paul C. Ferguson, Medieval Papal Representatives in Scotland: Legates, Nuncios, and Judges-Delegate, 1125–1286, Stair Society vol. 45 (Edinburgh, 1997).
Innes Review, 55(1),
pp. 95-97.
(doi: 10.3366/inr.2004.55.1.95)[Book Review]
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2004)
Calendar celebrations in early seventeenth-century south-east Scotland.
Cosmos, 16(2),
pp. 195-205.
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2004)
Review of Janet P. Foggie, Renaissance Religion in Urban Scotland: The Dominican Order, 1450–1560 (Leiden, 2003).
Journal of Early Modern History, 8(1-2),
pp. 166-167.
(doi: 10.1163/1570065041268960)[Book Review]
2002
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2002)
Schoolboy scribbles on a burgh court book.
Scottish Archives, 8,
pp. 96-112.
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2002)
Horse-racing in Scotland in the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries: Peebles and beyond.
Review of Scottish Culture, 14,
pp. 31-42.
2001
Williamson, E, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2001)
Alexander Rait, familiar of the Pope, d.1479.
Innes Review, 52(1),
pp. 29-41.
(doi: 10.3366/inr.2001.52.1.29)
2000
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2000)
Drama and entertainment in Peebles in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Medieval English Theatre, 22,
pp. 127-144.
Articles
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2021)
The Ordnance Survey Name Books: a 'treasure-trove' for toponymists.
Scottish Archives, 25-26,
pp. 42-55.
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2018)
Names of salmon pools in Berwickshire.
Onomastica Uralica, 12,
pp. 87-100.
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2018)
Literary influences on Berwickshire place-names.
Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 39,
pp. 21-56.
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2016)
The Funeral of Walter Scott, First Earl of Buccleuch: a grand ceremonial occasion.
Medieval English Theatre, 38,
pp. 3-21.
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2015)
'Hence the name': Berwickshire parishes along the Anglo-Scottish Border as described in the Ordnance Survey Name Books.
Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 9,
pp. 83-96.
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2009)
Index of authors and titles, volumes 51-60: 2000-2009.
Innes Review, 60(2),
pp. 193-218.
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2004)
Calendar celebrations in early seventeenth-century south-east Scotland.
Cosmos, 16(2),
pp. 195-205.
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2002)
Schoolboy scribbles on a burgh court book.
Scottish Archives, 8,
pp. 96-112.
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2002)
Horse-racing in Scotland in the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries: Peebles and beyond.
Review of Scottish Culture, 14,
pp. 31-42.
Williamson, E, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2001)
Alexander Rait, familiar of the Pope, d.1479.
Innes Review, 52(1),
pp. 29-41.
(doi: 10.3366/inr.2001.52.1.29)
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2000)
Drama and entertainment in Peebles in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Medieval English Theatre, 22,
pp. 127-144.
Books
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, Williamson, Eila
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X and Hough, Carole
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-3450
(2025)
The Place-Names of Berwickshire. Volume One. The Border Parishes.
Series: The survey of Scottish place-names (9).
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781915774279
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, Clancy, Thomas Owen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-4580, McNiven, Peter and Williamson, Eila
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2020)
The Place-Names of Clackmannanshire.
Series: The survey of Scottish place-names, VIII.
Shaun Tyas: Donington.
ISBN 9781907730863
Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, McNiven, Peter and Williamson, Eila
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2017)
The Place-Names of Kinross-shire.
Series: Survey of Scottish place-names, 7.
Shaun Tyas.
ISBN 9781907730580
Book Sections
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2009)
The cult of the Three Kings of Cologne in Scotland.
In: Boardman, S., Davies, J. and Williamson, E. (eds.)
Saints' Cults in the Celtic World.
Series: Studies in Celtic history (25).
Boydell: Woodbridge, pp. 160-179.
ISBN 9781843834328
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X and McGavin, J.J.
(2006)
Crossing the Border: the provincial records of southeast Scotland.
In: Douglas, A. and MacLean, S.-B. (eds.)
REED in Review: Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years.
Series: Studies in early English drama (8).
University of Toronto: Toronto, pp. 157-177.
ISBN 9780802038272
Book Reviews
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2014)
Review of Mairi Cowan, Death, Life, and Religious Change in Scottish Towns, c.1350-1560.
International Review of Scottish Studies, 39,
pp. 46-48.
[Book Review]
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2004)
Review of Graham Caie, Roderick J. Lyall, Sally Mapstone and Kenneth Simpson (eds), The European Sun: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature. University of Strathclyde, 1993 (East Linton, 2001).
Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, 54(1),
pp. 208-210.
[Book Review]
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2004)
Review of Paul C. Ferguson, Medieval Papal Representatives in Scotland: Legates, Nuncios, and Judges-Delegate, 1125–1286, Stair Society vol. 45 (Edinburgh, 1997).
Innes Review, 55(1),
pp. 95-97.
(doi: 10.3366/inr.2004.55.1.95)[Book Review]
Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2004)
Review of Janet P. Foggie, Renaissance Religion in Urban Scotland: The Dominican Order, 1450–1560 (Leiden, 2003).
Journal of Early Modern History, 8(1-2),
pp. 166-167.
(doi: 10.1163/1570065041268960)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Boardman, S. and Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X (Eds.)
(2010)
The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland.
Series: Studies in Celtic History.
Boydell: Woodbridge.
ISBN 9781843835622
Enthoven, V., Murdoch, S. and Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X (Eds.)
(2010)
The Navigator: The Log of John Anderson, VOC Pilot-Major 1640-1643.
Series: European expansion and indigenous response.
Brill: Leiden.
ISBN 9789004189317
Boardman, S., Davies, J.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019 and Williamson, E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X (Eds.)
(2009)
Saints' Cults in the Celtic World.
Series: Studies in Celtic history.
Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK.
ISBN 9781843834328
Audio
Williamson, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2010)
The Log Book of John Anderson - Senior Navigator in the VOC 1640-1643.
[Audio]
Website
Aitken, Brian, Hough, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-3450, Taylor, Simon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284 and Williamson, Eila
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X
(2018)
The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource.
[Website]
Boardman, Stephen, Williamson, Eila ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-646X and Davies, John
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019
(2007)
Database of Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland.
[Website]