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
Brian Holton
Scots is a West Germanic language with a literature going back more than 800 years, yet Scotland is a country where only English is compulsory in school, and where Scotland's history is barely taught beyond primary school, and where (non-Scottish) newspaper owners have been known to prohibit the reviewing of Scottish books on the grounds that this would be 'provincial', while the myopic hegemony of the Anglocentric media enshrines a set of attitudes which routinely ignores or belittles our cultu ...more
Brian Holton, Irish Pages, Vol. 12, No. 2: Scotland

George Scott-Moncrieff
Today finds Scotland in an extraordinary muddle. First she was free in body, romantic, cultured, and uncivilised, till her government was taken over by a usurious Kirk, weilding power through superstition. The boor for a century, she was repopularised by Scott, adopted as a plaything by a foreign queen, suffered worse than any nation in the industrial upheaval, and finally left an abortive carcase rotting somewhere to the North of England.
George Scott-Moncrieff, Scotland in Quest of Her Youth

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