The ASLS reached its fiftieth year in 2020 and we had been planning to celebrate the event. Sadly we were not able to – but you are invited to join us in 2021 to mark our anniversary one year on! We will celebrate our first fifty years, take stock of how far we have come, and consider the opportunities and challenges for the future.
The ASLS Schools Conference will offer CPD in areas of language and literature for teachers of English at Secondary, for BGE, National 5, and Higher. The presentations will cover drama, poetry, short stories, novels, and graphic novels, in English and Scots. This event will be run via Zoom. Login details for the event will be […]
Join us to celebrate the launch of The Crooked Dividend, a collection of essays from Spark scholars and experts, proceeding from the 2018 Muriel Spark International Symposium. Hear from co-editor Dr Helen Stoddart on the fresh insights into the life and work of Muriel Spark (1918–2006) revealed in the collection. Professor Colin Kidd delves into Spark’s […]
Headstrong heroines and hot-tempered chieftains, loch monsters and hill fairies, cattle raids and clan feuds, wise animals and foolish saints: the folktales of the Scottish Highlands preserve the history and beliefs of a people deeply rooted in their land and culture. The fairy hill can be understood in Gaelic tradition not just as the portal […]
The ASL Schools Conference will offer CPD in areas of language and literature for teachers of English, for BGE, National 5, Higher, and Advanced Higher. The presentations will cover drama, poetry, short stories, novels, non-fiction, creative writing, and storytelling, in English and Scots. Please note, this event is aimed at teachers and teachers-in-training, specifically those […]
A free online symposium on representations of class, gender, and nationality in Scottish literature from 1918 to 1939. The inter-war years were a period of economic, social, and political instability and insecurity across Europe. In Scotland, established notions of class, gender, and nationality were questioned as never before, revitalising ideas of language, art, and culture. […]
“The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript (1747–1775), currently held by the National Library of Scotland, is a unique document in Scottish history. Compiled by Jacobite clergyman Robert Forbes after the suppression of the final Jacobite Rising in 1746, the work consists of ten small volumes of transcribed conversations, narrative accounts, poems, songs, letters and even material […]
The ASL Schools Conference will offer CPD in areas of language and literature for teachers of English, for BGE, National 5, Higher, and Advanced Higher. The presentations will cover drama, poetry, novels, film and television, and creative writing, in English and Scots. Please note, this event is aimed at teachers and teachers-in-training, specifically those who […]
There are few literary genres in which maps, floor-plans and architectural features matter so deeply as in crime fiction. From the earliest days of ‘Tartan Noir’, Scottish crime writers have exploited the symbolic and structural significance of buildings in framing their various scenes of the crime. In this lecture, crime writer and academic Liam McIlvanney […]
First published in 1973, Haste Ye Back is a lively and intimate portrayal of Aberlour Orphanage in Banffshire, where Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–1987) spent four formative years in her childhood. Best known as a writer of gothic and supernatural fiction, here Haynes’s vivid imagination brings to life the residents, caretakers and stories of the institution that irrevocably […]