“Some merry, friendly, country-folks,/Together did convene,/To burn their nits, and pou their stocks,/And haud their Halloween”
Halloween Tales From Orkney: Robert Burns
Normal People
” Is there another country anywhere where actually teaching your own language in your own schools to your own people would be seen as somehow controversial and politically divisive?”
Toulmin Prize Short Story Competition
The story should be concerned with some aspect of life in north-east Scotland and may be written in Scots, including Doric, or English or a mixture of the two.
Of Independent Mind
The pandemic enforced absence of Burns suppers has given me a chance to revisit my thoughts on Scotland’s most famous son, and has forced me to ask a really important fundamental question.
Hae’in A Keek Wi Firefox
The Firefox web browser has become the first major software available in the Scots language
Testimonies of Transition:Voices from the Scots Diaspora
The stories of more than 100 Scots who left their homeland in search of a new life abroad can now be heard in their own words
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.”
Poetry Corner: The Brus
On this day March 25th 1306, Robert the Bruce, Earl of Annandale, was crowned King of Scots at Scone.
