The recent acquisition of a sixteenth-century manuscript containing copies of Katherine Parr’s Praieres or meditacions (1545) and other devotional works has prompted a new look at women as book produc...

A three-day conference with talks, panels and a plenary session exploring the work of Scottish writer Walter Scott within the theme of 'Politics, Place and Print Culture'. Currently accepting submissi...

The Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held at Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China, on 17-20 June 2027. Being China’s first city designated as a “UNESCO City of Literature…

An evening exploring one of Scotland’s most celebrated poems by Hugh MacDiarmid.

The work of James Leslie Mitchell, better known of course by his famous pen-name of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, has been a consuming passion in my extensive academic life; in the course of forty years of de...

Discussions of urban Scottish writing tend, more often than not, to centre on narratives set in Glasgow. This is hardly surprising, since much Scottish fiction from the 1930s onward sprang from the sa...

The Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held at Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China, on 17-20 June 2027. Being China’s first city designated as a “UNESCO City of Literature…

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Eventbrite - University of Glasgow - College of Arts presents A Kingdom in Perplexity: Voices of Seventeenth-Century Scotland - Thursday, June 11, 2026 at Glasgow University Union, Glasgow, Glasgow. F...