Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #20th-century, aggregated by home.social.
2026 is Agnes Owens’ centenary year, & Polygon has published 7 new editions of her novels & short stories, introduced by some of Scotland’s finest contemporary writers, in collaboration with the Agnes Owens Archive
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #workingclass #workingclasswriters
“In contemporary reviews she was likened to Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge: her books thrive on the friction between comedy and sadness.”
John Self on the working-class genius of Agnes Owens (1926–2014)
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-working-class-genius-of-agnes-owens
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #workingclass #workingclasswriters
Agnes Owens: dame of darkly comic working-class stories
4 Nov, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh – free
Alasdair Gray called her “the most unfairly neglected of all living Scottish authors”. Owens began her writing career after attending a writer’s class in her middle-age “just to get out of the house”.
Agnes Owens’ archives can secure her status as a major Scottish literary figure.
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #workingclasswriters #archive
Dorothy K. Haynes – Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch
Five supernatural & unsettling short stories from Dorothy K. Haynes’ award-winning collection, first published in 1949. Read by Tamara Kennedy & broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Dec 2004, via archive.org
5/5
https://archive.org/details/bbc-radio-dorothy-k-haynes/BBC+Dorothy+K+Haynes+2004-12-xx+1+Gas.flac
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #horror #weird #weirdfiction #weirdtales #audio #audiobooks #shortstories
“Dorothy K. Haynes’ weird fiction is truly the stuff of nightmares, where horrors cruel & mundane are interwoven with threads of dark fairy folklore & twisted witchcraft…”
In 2024, the British Library published 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘒. 𝘏𝘢𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘴
4/5
https://shop.bl.uk/products/the-weird-tales-of-dorothy-k-haynes
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #horror #weird #weirdfiction #weirdtales #shortstories #shortfiction #folklore
“At her best, Haynes might be thought of as Scotland’s answer to Shirley Jackson”
“‘A Different World’: Dorothy K. Haynes’s Domestic Horror” —Prof Timothy Baker in Gothic Studies 24/1
3/5
https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/gothic.2022.0122
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #horror #weird #weirdfiction #weirdtales
Haste Ye Back: Dorothy K. Haynes & the importance of childhood memory
Dr Craig Lamont considers the formative experiences & literary awakenings of gothic horror author Dorothy K. Haynes & other Scottish writers
2/5
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #horror #weird #weirdfiction #weirdtales #childhood #memoir #memory #Aberlour
A gifted writer of gothic & horror fiction, Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–1987) was born #OTD, 12 Oct. Haynes & her twin brother spent 4 years in Aberlour Orphanage, from 1929 to 1933: in 2023, we republished her long out-of-print childhood memoir, 𝘏𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘠𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬
🎂 🧵
1/5
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/haste-ye-back/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #gothic #horror #weird #weirdfiction #weirdtales #memoir #childhood #Aberlour
The #RobieHouse, in #Chicago, is part of the larger #20thCentury #Architecture of #FrankLloydWright #UNESCOWorldHeritage Site found across the #US. The house was completed in 1910 for the #Robie family, but quickly had to sell the house after acquiring family debt. #americana #wa #canon80d #photo #travel #ushistory #landmark
https://www.europesays.com/ie/727816/ Vanished work of Mavis Pusey brought together in Los Angeles exhibition – The Art Newspaper #20thCentury #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #Design #Éire #Entertainment #Exhibitions #HammerMuseum #IE #Ireland
Ayont the Thistle
Through essays, poems, reflections & other creative responses, more than 70 writers from around the world explore Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark 1926 poem 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦, examining its language, structure & imagery, its power & its provocations
https://tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/ayont-the-thistle/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #modernism #modernist #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
The stars like thistle’s roses floo’er
The sterile growth o’ Space ootour,
That clad in bitter blasts spreids oot
Frae me, the sustenance o’ its root…
—from September: an illustrated Royal Society of Edinburgh talk placing MacDiarmid’s 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘯… in its cultural, political & biographical context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04w6WnXr4PQ
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #modernism #modernist #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
Today, October 8, is (naturally) Octopus Day … Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦 (1926)
Extract from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry (Carcanet, 2004)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857547566
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #modernism #modernist #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #OctopusDay
Hermes was a bad god, a shifty fellow,
a liar, a thief, a teller of the future
(with dice, of course), a musician,
herald and messenger of the gods…
—Norman MacCaig, “Hermes-Mercury”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MACCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poems-of-norman-maccaig/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #Hermes #Mercury #Wednesday #Roman #Classical
Josephine Tey & the problem of time
20 Oct, Melrose. £6
According to Val McDermid, Josephine Tey is the bridge between Golden Age & contemporary crime fiction. Tey’s books were unconventional in their portrayal of sexuality & in their playful challenges to the norms of the genre, & also took unusual approaches to questions of time & space. Prof Timothy Baker investigates.
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #crimefiction #womenwriters #crimewriting #detectivefiction
The new episode of The Carrying Stream podcast discusses the work of Neil M. Gunn (1891–1973) with David Graham & Kirsty Gunn from North House Press. North House has recently republished Gunn’s debut novel 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵 (1926), along with two of his later words, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 (1943) & 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵 (1952)
https://pod.link/1865430519/episode/MzZkYmNmY2YtMjk4Mi00NDczLWI1YjMtNjQ3MjZiNTdjMmMw
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #Highlands #NeilGunn #NeilMGunn #podcast
The merry badger keeps his way
Nocturnally,
And I go merry to my play
Even as he…
—Olive Fraser, “The Solitaries”
from THE WRONG MUSIC, @canongate.co.uk 1989
Happy National Badger Day – 6 October – to all who celebrate!
https://www.badgertrust.org.uk/brocktober
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #naturepoetry #womenwriters #badger #badgers #NationalBadgerDay
Women of the Saltire Society
20 October, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed
Join the Saltire Society for a special event celebrating the women whose contributions have helped shape the Saltire Society & Scotland’s cultural life
The event will also offer a unique opportunity to view archival material especially on display for the day, & to visit the Saltire Society’s 90th anniversary exhibition
Christmas Eve. The hour between tea and black-out.
The stove reddens and snores in the gathering dusk.
Five tin helmets hang in a row on the wall,
Their little black pot-bellies gleam in the glow of the fire…
—Flora Garry, “Ambulance Depot, 1942”
published in FROM THE LINE: Scottish War Poetry 1914–1945
2/2
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #warpoetry #WW2 #womenwriters
Faar’s Baabie Jeanie’s loon? The aal wife hersel
Stans treeshin hame the milkers at the ley park yett.
Faa caas the mornin cairt an fordals neeps an strae,
Wi waages up an risin an fee’d folk sae ull to get?…
—“War: 1939–1945” by Flora Garry (1900–2000)—born #OTD, 30 September
published in FROM THE LINE: Scottish War Poetry 1914–1945
1/2
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #20thcentury #warpoetry #WW2 #womenwriters
Leave, leave your well-loved nest,
Late swallow, and fly away.
Here is no rest
For hollowing heart and wearying wing.
Your comrades all have flown
To seek their southern paradise
Across the great earth’s downward sloping side,
And you are alone…
—Edwin Muir, “The Late Swallow”
first published in One Foot in Eden (Faber, 1956)
🧲 ICYMI: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.
An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets-work-teded-animation
#1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video
The Mandolinist -- Mark Gertler --Oil on board --1934
I'm surprised that Tate Britain does not currently have this work on display. Gertler is a significant British painter, and this work both merits attention and would be popular with the public.
#Art #BritishArt #MarkGertler #TheMandolinist #Painting #20thCentury #TateBritain
Archival Breezes 2, or de-Glasgowifying Agnes Owens
Kirstin Innes on the mis-categorisation of Agnes Owens as a ‘Glasgow writer’.
“[Owens] managed some strange alchemy of hyper-locality and universality which makes her a bard of small town existence, wherever that small town might be. But it isn’t of Glasgow.”
https://substack.com/@kirstininnes/p-216883261
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #workingclasswriters #AgnesOwens #Glasgow
🧲 ICYMI: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.
An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets-work-teded-animation
#1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video
📻 ICYMI: In 1924, #HelenKeller wrote a letter describing how she experienced a live #radio broadcast of #Beethoven's Ninth through touch alone.
During a #LettersLive event in #London, actor #GillianAnderson read Keller's words about feeling musical vibrations through the radio receiver.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/letters-live-gillian-anderson-helen-keller-new-york-symphony-orchestra
#1900s #20thcentury #blind #blindness #deaf #deafness #emotions #literacy #history #music #orchestra #performance #reading #senses #sound #technology #tech #tksst #video
🧲 ICYMI: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.
An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets-work-teded-animation
#1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video
📻 ICYMI: In 1924, #HelenKeller wrote a letter describing how she experienced a live #radio broadcast of #Beethoven's Ninth through touch alone.
During a #LettersLive event in #London, actor #GillianAnderson read Keller's words about feeling musical vibrations through the radio receiver.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/letters-live-gillian-anderson-helen-keller-new-york-symphony-orchestra
#1900s #20thcentury #blind #blindness #deaf #deafness #emotions #literacy #history #music #orchestra #performance #reading #senses #sound #technology #tech #tksst #video
🧲 WATCH: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.
An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets-work-teded-animation
#1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video
The Spanish Civil War (2/2)
The Long Road to Reconciliation
52 min - Available until 10/12/2026
Spring 1939. After 1,000 days of fighting and more than 400,000 deaths, the war ended with Madrid taken by the Francoists and the Republic defeated. The post-war period was characterised by repression of the losing side and deep divisions often split families right down the middle.
arte.tv/en/videos/118255-002-A…
#ArteTV #ArteReportage #History #Spain #Espana #SpanishCivilWar #War #Society #Politics #20thCentury #Documentary
