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Imprentit: 500 years of the Scottish printed word
Printing's profound impact in Scotland across five centuries is the focus of the National Library of Scotland summer exhibition with treasures on show from its historic collections.
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition the Scots Language Centre is displaying two items from the NLS colle... more
The complaint of the Black Knight
John Lydgate's poem "The complaint of the black knight", commonly attributed to Chaucer, was published in Edinburgh in 1508 by Walter Chepman and Andrew Myllar. The tale is written in Middle Scots and printed in black letter. It is the earliest dated book printed in Scotland, and the National Lib... more
To a Mouse
Robert Burns’ “To a mouse” is one of the poems published in the first collection of his work, commonly known as 'the Kilmarnock edition'. John Wilson printed it in Kilmarnock in 1786. More on the NLS collection of Burns material can be found here: http://www.nls.uk/burns/index. and, as p... more
The Watergaw
Listen to Hugh MacDiarmid talk about and read his masterpiece, the Watergaw.
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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
Listen to Hugh MacDiarmid read, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
http://writing.upenn.edu/penns
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The Hugh MacDiarmid memorial Langholm
Chorin Stanes...
Hello aw, howp ye hae aw been fine this hinmaist week. I'm nippin out in a bit, sae jist time fer a wee blog this week
I hae been feil thrang, I can tell ye that. Syne I'll be daein Scottish History at Uni in September, I decidit tae get a heid stairt a while back an read aw the Scottish his... more
Aboot the Ainu
Whit d'ye mak o this?
- http://www.iht.com/articles/20
Thir's ae braw line, juist at the end, that gar me lauch out loud: "It's not healthy to keep blaming discrimination or history, and not work and pay taxes..." more