Scottish Culture


The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh Classic Editions)
The Sound of Many Waters: A Journey along the River Tay
Unveiling Lady Scott: Walter Scott, French Influence and Transcultural Connections (Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections)
Scotland's Sacred Goddess: Hidden in Plain Sight
Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography
The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma
Scottish Literary Review, Spring/Summer 2025
Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000 (Polygon Pocketbooks)
A Scottish Postbag: Eight Centuries of Scottish Letters
Aberdeen and North-East Scotland (Exploring Scotland's Heritage)
Poems & Songs of Robert Burns
Jabberwock: Edinburgh University Review, Volume 3, No. 2: Summer 1950
No Language, No Nation!  The Life of the Honourable Ruaraidh Erskine of Marr
Irish Pages, Vol. 12, No. 2: Scotland
Border Station Walks
Halla Beloff
The counter-culture was global - or so we thought. For the first time we felt in touch with California and Paris, Poland and India and together we would change the world. Even Edinburgh would move to a more open and humane and anarchic direction. It and we would be a tonic to the nation and the very idea of 'nation' would become irrelevant. Scottish culture believed itself to be 'European' but surely it gloried in a powerful insularity too. And that was all to be moribund, this was a brave new ...more
Halla Beloff, Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000

Edwin Morgan
Yes, I go along with the idea of a Scottish Spring. It was genuinely a time of beginnings, a time of openings, and I always felt that those who left Scotland then - eg. Kenneth White, Douglas Dunn - were too impatient and should have stayed. New international configurations - Sottish-American, Scottish-Russian, Scottish-Brazilian - appeared. New genres like concrete poetry and sound-poetry challenged a fair amount of opposition. I remember Hugh MacDiarmid growling in 1970 "I'd hate an Ian Finlay ...more
Edwin Morgan, Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000

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