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Schools Conference: 2017

The papers presented at this Schools Conference were recorded by Education Scotland. The videos below can also be viewed on the Education Scotland YouTube page.

Scottish War Poetry (Dr David Goldie and Professor Rory Watson)

Click here for the Scotnote study guide Scottish War Poetry 1914-1945.

Click here for the ASL Teaching Notes, including the National 5/Higher Teaching Note on Scottish Poetry of the First World War.

Click here for the ASL Annual Volume 43, From the Line: Scottish War Poetry 1914-1945, edited by David Goldie and Roderick Watson.

Three short stories of James Hogg (Dr David Robb)

Click here for the ASL Free Publications, including the PDF of The Devil I am Sure: Three short stories of James Hogg.

Click here to read James Robertson’s paper ‘Scott, Hogg and Stevenson, and their influence on Scottish Literature’ for the ASLS Schools Conference 2013.

Nan Shepherd, novelist of the North-East (Professor Alison Lumsden)

Click here to read Charlotte Peacock’s article ‘Quiet pioneer: the novels of Nan Shepherd (1893-1981)’ for The Bottle Imp 27.

Alan Spence’s Sailmaker (John Burns)

Folksongs in the Classroom (Ewan McVicar)

Scottish Folksongs (John Hodgart and Friends)