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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
This one-day symposium is a landmark opportunity to discuss the status of queer writing in Scottish literature. The event celebrates the launch of the Scottish Literary Review special issue, ‘Queer Form in […]
