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Book Week Scotland is friendship woven through words. ❤📚

Whatever you are doing to celebrate, from going along to one of hundreds of events to reading a brilliant book at home, we wish you a happy Book Week Scotland! 📚🥳
A poster advertising Book Week Scotland with the slogan 'friendship woven through words'. The dates are 17–23 November.
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Best book of all time !!
asls.org.uk Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Nov 16
Elspeth Barker (1940–2022) was born #OTD, 16 Nov – a 🎂🧵

Maggie O’Farrell called Barker’s classic O CALEDONIA “one of those books you proselytize about… I once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named [it] as her favourite book”
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Maggie O’Farrell on Elspeth Barker’s Modern Scottish Classic, O Caledonia
We begin with a corpse. Sixteen-year-old Janet is sprawled “in bloody, murderous death” beneath the stained-glass window of her Highland home, dressed in her mother’s “black lace evening dress.” Th…
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November 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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You know what ys the coolest thinge? Libraryes.
October 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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We’re delighted to shared details of this free, 1-day symposium, organised by our friends and colleagues @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social and Dr Lois Burke, on 12 Dec 2025.

Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat....

More info here: www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/investigatin....

Do share widely!
October 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Excited to be back at Edinburgh for this in December! ✍️📚
asls.org.uk Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Oct 22
Investigating Irish & Scottish Women Writers of Children’s Literature
12 Dec @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free

Exploring regional & national identities in children’s literature c.1750–1940 – an era of major cultural & political upheaval in Ireland & Scotland
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Investigating Irish & Scottish Women Writers of Children's Literature
A one-day symposium on Irish and Scottish women writers of children's literature between 1750 and 1940.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Save the date! 💚 Very excited to announce this upcoming December symposium @EdinburghUni organised by @LoisMBurke & @_SELCIE_🦉 funded by the British Academy! More details & registration link to follow! #scottishlit #womenswriting #irishlit #childrensliterature
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October 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done?
Thou art a pynke ponye girle
Yn the daunse at the clubbe!'
'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe
On the stage yn myne heeles
It ys wher Ich belonge:
Downe at the
Pynke Ponye Clubbe!
Ich shal keepe on daunsinge,
Downe yn West Hollywoode'
[lute solo] 🎶
September 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Susan Ferrier (1782–1854) was born #OTD, 7 Sept. Her 3 novels—Marriage, The Inheritance, & Destiny—are vivid & humorous accounts of Scottish society. Often compared to her contemporary #JaneAusten, Ferrier’s satires are much more vicious…
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Susan Ferrier — Scottish Women Writers on the Web
Susan Ferrier wrote satirical novels of manners, which have been compared to the works of Jane Austen and Frances Burney. She mixed with Romantic Edinburgh's Edinburgh’s literary luminaries, includin...
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September 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.

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Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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9yo boy gets the essence of the Scottish Play
August 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) was born #OTD, 16 Aug. Oliphant wrote over 100 popular songs to traditional Scottish tunes. Although she shunned publicity & never acknowledged her authorship, along with Robert Burns she is one of the most significant figures in Scottish folksong
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Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne “The Laird o’ Cockpen” The Laird o’ Cockpen, he’s proud an’ he’s great, His mind is ta’en up wi’ the things o’ the State; He wanted a wife, his braw house to keep, But favour wi’ wooin’ was fashious to seek. Down by the dyke-side a lady did dwell, At his table head he thocht she’d look well, M’Leish’s ae dochter o’ Clavers-ha’ Lea, A penniless lass wi’ a lang pedigree. His wig was weel pouther’d and as gude as new, His waistcoat was white, his coat it was blue; He put on a ring, a sword, and cock’d hat, And wha could refuse the Laird wi’ a’ that? He took the grey mare, and rade cannily, And rapp’d at the yett o’ Clavers-ha’ Lea; ‘Gae tell Mistress Jean to come speedily ben, – She’s wanted to speak to the Laird o’ Cockpen.’ Mistress Jean she was makin’ the elderflower wine; ‘An’ what brings the Laird at sic a like time?’ She put aff her apron, and on her silk goun, Her mutch wi’ red ribbons, and gaed awa’ doun. An’ when she cam’ ben, he bowed fu’ low, An’ what was his errand he soon let her know; Amazed was the Laird when the lady said ‘Na’, And wi’ a laigh curtsie she turned awa’. Dumfounder’d was he, nae sigh did he gie, He mounted his mare – he rade cannily; An’ aften he thought, as he gaed through the glen, She’s daft to refuse the laird o’ Cockpen.
August 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Happy (probable) birthday to one of my faves ✨
asls.org.uk Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jul 25
Elizabeth Hamilton (1756?–1816) was (probably) born #OTD, 25 July. We republished her 1808 novel THE COTTAGERS OF GLENBURNIE, edited by Pam Perkins: an entertaining & skilful dissection of 18th-century class issues, British imperialism, & war
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Annual Volume 38 (2008)
Edited by Pam Perkins Price: £9.95 Paperback ISBN 978-0-948877-86-5 Price: £25.00 Hardback ISBN 978-0-948877-85-8 Glasgow, February 2010 Order from our bookshop Writing in the late eighteenth and…
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July 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM