Heap on more wood! the wind is chill;But let it whistle as it will,We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.Each age has deem’d the new-born yearThe fittest time for festal cheer:Even, heathen yet, […]
Celebrating Sir Walter Scott #Scott250
“The more we read his work and talk about it to those outside Scotland the more we recognise its complexity and the Scott250 celebrations are an important way to revisit his significance beyond Scotland.” Professor Lumsden
Poetry Corner: Waverley – “”She wadna hae a Lowland laird”
On this day 7th of July in 1814 the novel ‘Waverley’, by Sir Walter Scott, was published.
Poetry Corner: ‘Breathes There The Man’
On this day, 4th February 1818 Sir Walter Scott supervised the rediscovery of the Honours of Scotland