“Your name is kind of important to you. It’s your heritage. It’s your people. It’s who came before you. It’s your birthright. It’s your culture. It’s a big part of what and who we are.
A wee pleep, as they say in bonny Orkney.
Language & Domination – Or – One Way to Squash A Culture
“I’m continuing to read ‘Orkney Shore’, in which Robert Rendall mentions the muddle which the Latin names for shells had got into due to different people in different places using different spelling”
Auld Scotia
“The old joke is that Scottish people don’t make love standing up in case people walk past the window and think they’re dancing.”
The Braveheart Experience
It is 25 years since the film Braveheart had its UK premier in Stirling.
Maps: The Shapes of Scotland
The use and meaning of maps was the subject of a fascinating online talk from Chris Fleet of the National Library of Scotland.
New Linguistic Survey of Scots
“Scots continues to play an important role in our cultural and everyday lives and informs both our identity and sense of place.”
“Colonised by Wankers”:Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction
“Even after devolution and the establishment of a Scottish Parliament the contemporary Scottish novel negotiates national identity between the poles of a Scottish and a British identity. “
Confessions of a Union supporter
“The first confession is that in 2014, Scottish independence was too much of a quantum leap for me.”
