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.