Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Valentina Bold is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh.
Authority and charm are hard to combine successfully. In The Time Traveller’s Herbal Amanda Edmiston achieves this, carrying the reader through her original, and engaging, journey through plant lore. Using stories and songs as backdrop to the herbalism, her narrative gifts are always evident. The final element in this unique package is its physical beauty: illustrations that […]
R.N.: ‘Lady Florence was an extensive traveller […] explored unknown parts of Patagonia, and […] afterwards wrote a book […] Lady Florence was engaged by the Morning Post as their special correspondent during the Boer War […] Lady Florence’s sympathy with the dumb creation was very keen, and her pen was seldom idle. Charles […]
Dreaming Bread and Skyrie Stanes: A Celebration of Scottish Folk Magic and Community Traditions Scottish Storytelling Centre, Sunday 11th November, 2018 ‘Dreaming Bread and Skyrie Stanes’ set itself an ambitious agenda: to bring together folklore in practice, and folklore in theory. It did this through a celebration of Scottish community traditions: ‘balancing reflecting and recording, […]