Articles categorised as History

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...

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...

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...

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...

Aboot the Ainu

Whit d'ye mak o this? - http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/03/asia/03ainu.php Thir's ae braw line, juist at the end, that gar me lauch out loud: "It's not healthy to keep blaming...

The Watergaw

Listen to Hugh MacDiarmid talk about and read his masterpiece, the Watergaw. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1557

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

Listen to Hugh MacDiarmid read, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/MacDiarmid.html

The Hugh MacDiarmid memorial Langholm

New RLS Website Now Live

A new website about the life and work of Robert Louis Stevenson is now live on the internet. With full information about RLS’s life, pictures never before seen by the public and downloadable...

Draft article

The Times reports that the new Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, which was finished on 12 May, will be the first in the country to use Scots to explain its collection. In addition to appearing in...

Jist Yarnin - writing from Margaret Tong

Margaret Tong's articles from her "Jist Yarnin" series were written for the Buckie & District Fishing Heritage Centre's quarterly newslatter. We owe thanks, firstly to Margaret for allowing us to...

An app’s an app for a’ that

Ahead of this year's Burns night, the Scottish Government has released a Burns app for the iPhone. As well as including more than 550 of the Bard's poems and love songs, the app gives users a...

Scotland's Ain Kingly Hooses 10

Welcome to part ten of the podcast series 'Scotland's Ain Kingly Hooses'. This year long podcast series explores the history of Scotland's royal dynasties in the Scots language. In this part we...