Click ower ae windae tae fin oot mair anent scrievit an imprentit wark in Scots.
‘The Buke of the Howlat’ is a paukie an ferlie tale scrievit in the 1440s fir Lady Elizabeth Douglas at Darnaway Castle in Morayshire. Read mair…
Alexander Wilson, faither o American Ornithology Read mair…
Alexander Rodger, originally frae East Calder in Midlothian, bade in the weavin districk o Brigton in Glesga. He became kent in popular radical literature fir scrievin satires. Read mair…
First imprentit in 1826, ‘Popular Rhymes of Scotland’ wis collectit chiefly frae oral sources an is a hairstin o Scottish verse, stories, folklore, proverbs an superstitions. Read mair…
‘Ane Compendious Book of Godly and Spiritual Sangs’ wis originally imprentit in 1567. Read mair…
Allan Ramsay, a vital link in the chyne o Scots literature. Read mair…
The Deil in Scotland reenges through a mettlesome history o witchcraft in Scotland. Read mair…
‘Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk’ opens wi an exchynge in braid Doric atween the protagonist an his hynd Tam Meerison. Read mair…
Jessie Kesson, a prolific scriever o novels, poetry, stories, radio plays an screenplays. Read mair…
Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: poet an first Scottish wumman tae hae her work in prent. Read mair…
Aunts, nurses an auld wives frae upper Deeside wir said tae hae been the springheid o Anna Gordon’s ballad collection. Read mair…
Mary Symon, whase verse, scrievit in Scots durin the war, caucht the public’s imagination. Read mair…
These twa plays lie atween post-Reformation austerity an the hin-end o the religious strauchles that steered in Scotland ower the 17th century. Read mair…
Storytellin in Scotland comes frae a timeless an borderless tradition Read mair…
A licht-hertit an joco novella set in Glesga an scrievit in braid Scots Read mair…
A tale o skaith, druckenness an lowse morals that bade in the landwart o soothwest Scotland Read mair…
P Hately Waddell minister who sidit wi the seceeders whae formit the Free Kirk o Scotland Read mair…
Pete Coutts’ original Doric sangs an tunes draws frae the cultural heritage an leid o the North-East. Read mair…
Gavin Douglas’ Eneados, the first full owersettin o ony major classical work is yin o the keystanes o Scots literatur Read mair…
Durin the reign o King James VI an I Scots was the language o government an law, literature an officialdom, forby the iverday leid o kings an scholars, courtiers an commoners alike – includin in St Andraes Read mair…
In Juin o 1825, in Glesga, whit’s noo kent as the warld’s first comic wis prentit Read mair…
A sax volume wark stertit an prentit bi ae James Johnson at Bell’s Wynd, Embra. The first volume bein prentit in 1787 an the saxt ane in 1803. Read mair…
Robert Henryson wis a makar wirkin in the saicont hauf o the feifteen yearhunner Read mair…
Letter fae the barons o Scotland tae Pope John XXII – better kent as the Declaration o Arbroath noo in modern Scots Read mair…
The earliest ayebidin wark o Scots literature, whase pooerfu and universal message o freedom has echoed doon through the centuries Read mair…
This late 16th-century hantle o sindry verse is a gey significant quair o Early Modern Scots poetry Read mair…
A Continuum o the Scots Leid