Written culture
Green Scotland: Literature and the Seeds of Independence.
Author / Creator: Susan Oliver
Media type: Article
Date published: 2014
The relationship of literature and country explored.
"Out from Underneath Control”– The National Theatre of Scotland
Author / Creator: Paula M Śledzińska
Media type: Article
Date published: 2020
David Greig speaks on a range of subjects, notably the Scottish stage as well as politics of language and identity.
Narratives of Scottish History and Identity in Pro-Independence Poetry written for the 2014 Scottish Referendum
Author / Creator: Kathryn Ailes
Media type: Thesis
Date published: 2015
In the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaigns, writers played a key role in articulating binding myths of Scottishness and visions of Scotland’s future.
Scottish Nostalgias: Evocations of Home in the 1990s Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, and Kathleen Jamie
Author / Creator: Katie Ailes
Media type: Thesis
Date published: 2014
An examination of the themes of nostalgia, memory, and displacement in the 1990s work of Scottish poets Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, and Kathleen Jamie.
Scotland Can
Author / Creator: We Can
Media type: Website
Date published: 2024 -
If Scotland wants to carry out radical land reform, build a new health system, change the school starting age, create new welfare benefits, or get working on dozens of other issues, then there is nothing to stop us.
Poor Things: meet the radical Scottish visionary behind the new hit film
Author / Creator: Joe Jackson
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
Alasdair Gray was a maverick and polymath – a writer, artist, polemicist, dissident and civic nationalist – who had an immense influence on contemporary Scottish literature and beyond.
Memoirs of a Gallus Weegie
Author / Creator: Margaret McQuade McAuslan
Media type: Book
Date published: 2023
It is a tremendous pleasure to read what Margaret McQuade McAuslan has written of her life in the mid 20th and early 21st Century.