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Call for papers
Politics, Place & Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference
28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh

The conference invites papers on any & all aspects of Walter Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture

Deadline for proposals: 1 Oct 2026

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https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SirWalterScott #WalterScott #callforpapers #printculture

You can read “Wandering Willie’s Tale” in our free ebook

AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME
Three Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott

🪞 “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror”: reckless romance & supernatural theatrics
🗡️ “The Two Drovers”: a slow-burn exposé of national conflict
🔥 “Wandering Willie’s Tale”: a trip to Hell, a demonic monkey, & an unreliable narrator

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/as-it-was-told-to-me/

#Scottish #literature #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #ShortStories #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober

Dr Gerard McKeever – Scotch Novels

Recorded on 4 September 2025 at the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at the University of Edinburgh, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels”.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvrXYw1Sus

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #romanticism

Our #SirWalterScott cushion having a bit of a #MorticiaAddams moment in today’s bright sunshine…

#babababum #clickclick #babababum #clickclick

“Henry Cunningham, Esq. of Boquhan, was a gentleman of Stirlingshire, who, like many exquisites of our own time, united a natural high spirit and daring character with an affectation of delicacy of address and manners amounting to foppery…”

—From Walter Scott’s 1829 Introduction to ROB ROY

5/5

#Scottish #literature #history #SirWalterScott #romanticism #duel #sword #cinema #film #AlanSharp

Sharp’s ROB ROY also includes John Hurt’s fantastic turn as James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, & Tim Roth as the vicious dandy Archibald Cunningham. Although Archie is fictional (& framed as English in the film, despite his Scottish name), he is based on a real Scot who defeated Rob Roy in a duel: Henry Cunningham of Boquhan

4/5

#Scottish #literature #history #SirWalterScott #romanticism #cinema #film #AlanSharp #JohnHurt #TimRoth

Redcaps are a type of murderous goblin that soak their hats in the blood of their victims. According to Sir Walter Scott’s 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,' “Every ruined tower in the south of Scotland is supposed to have an inhabitant of this species.” #BookologyThursday

📷: Damien Ramage

#Folklore #Redcap #Goblin #SirWalterScott #MinstrelsyOfTheScottishBorder #Scottland #ScottishFolklore #BorderFolklore

Abbotsford near both Melrose and Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. A portal into the world of literary superstar Sir Walter Scott and one of Scotland's longest-established tourist attractions. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/melrose/abbotsford/index.html

#Scotland #Abbotsford #SirWalterScott #ScottishBorders #Galashiels #Melrose #UndiscoveredScotland

“It is not a romantic Tale that the Reader is here presented with, but a real History. Not the Adventures of a Robinson Crusoe, a Colonel Jack, or a Moll Flanders, but the Actions of the HIGHLAND ROGUE…”

Rob Roy MacGregor was baptised #OnThisDay, 7 March, 1671. Walter Scott’s novel made the #Scottish #outlaw internationally famous – & created the model for today’s roguish antiheroes

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#SirWalterScott #literature #history #RobRoy

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https://theconversation.com/two-centuries-before-marvel-and-star-wars-walter-scotts-rob-roy-was-the-first-modern-anti-hero-89421

Sir Walter Scott's (of Ivanhoe fame) view of the "progress" from water to coal (steam) is quoted in Andreas Malm's _Fossil Capital_. It's fun to find the resources on-line!
https://archive.org/details/familiarletterso02scotuoft/page/n5/mode/2up

#AndreasMalm in #FossilCapital with #SirWalterScott on #TransitionToSteam #WaterToCoal #TransitionToCoal

Taken this day, 2013, statue of Sir Walter Scott at night, with the illuminated face of the Balmoral Clock behind him https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/10785063693/

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography #photography #statue #sculpture #SirWalterScott #clock #horloge #ScottMonument #BalmoralClock

Redcaps are a type of murderous goblin known for soaking their hats in the blood of their victims. According to Sir Walter Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," "Every ruined tower in the south of Scotland is supposed to have an inhabitant of this species."

#Faustian #Folklore #Redcap #Goblin #Scotland #Castle #SirWalterScott

📷 : Damien Ramage

Abbotsford near both Melrose and Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. A portal into the world of literary superstar Sir Walter Scott and one of Scotland's longest-established tourist attractions. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/melrose/abbotsford/index.html

#Scotland #Abbotsford #SirWalterScott #ScottishBorders #Galashiels #Melrose #UndiscoveredScotland

See a piece of history this spring when Sir Walter Scott’s original manuscript for Rob Roy goes on display in Scotland for the first time at National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. The NLS is streaming a special event on YouTube in March to celebrate the exhibition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVrACp87Fbo

#RobRoy #SirWalterScott #history #Edinburgh #Scotland #literature #manuscript @histodons

The manuscript for Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy to go on show at the National Library of Scotland, #Edinburgh https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64153863

NLS has good record on displaying some of our remarkable literary history to the people of #Scotland Recall standing in line to see their one-day showing of letters by Mary Queen of Scots. There's something about seeing the handwritten work that connects you to the person.

#books #livres #SirWalterScott #NationalLibraryOfScotland #RobRoy #Ecosse

What links Sir Walter Scott, a Gauger from #CastleDouglas and #JohntheBaptist ?

St John's Chair in St John's Town of Dalry, of course.
Here's a wild wee #tale about it.
#Galloway #history #Scotland #SirWalterScott
#video
https://crowkitchentales.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/the-writer-the-gauger-an-john-the-baptist/

Scott Monument catching the winter light on a rather chilly but lovely #SaintAndrewsDay in #Edinburgh

I love that our largest monument isn't to a king or conquering general, but to writers. Very civilised.

#photography #scottmonument #sirwalterscott #history #literature #scottishliterature #monument #princesstreet #princesstreetgardens #bus #edinburgh #edimbourg #scotland #ecosse #writer #author #books #livres