Written culture
Strengthening a Scottish Identity: The Claymore Boys’ Magazine, 1933–34
Author / Creator: Duncan Sim
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
The Claymore was specifically aimed at young Scottish boys with the stated aim of strengthening their sense of national identity.
A Selective History of Scottish PEN from 1950 to 1997
Author / Creator: Gerard Carruthers
Media type: Article
Date published: 2026
The influence of Scottish PEN
Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland; Emergent Ecologies of a Nation
Author / Creator: Susan Oliver
Media type: Book
Date published: 2023
The work of Walter Scott, one of the most globally influential authors of the nineteenth century, provides us with a unique narrative of the changing ecologies of Scotland over several centuries and writes this narrative into the history of environmental literature.
Writing Black Scotland Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain
Author / Creator: Joseph H. Jackson
Media type: 216pp
Date published: 2022
Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature.
Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography
Author / Creator: A. Riach
Media type: Book
Date published: 2025
This fascinating new study is about cultural change and continuities.
Sradagan san Iarmailt Sparks in the Firmament
Author / Creator: Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Media type: Book
Date published: 2025
This wide-ranging anthology showcases the talented cohort of Gaelic poets who have come to prominence since the turn of the millennium
Papers of Roddy Lumsden
Author / Creator: Roddy Lumsden
Media type: Web page
Date published: 2025
The work of the remarkable poet Roddy Lumsden has been put online by Edinburgh University.
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.