The Centre for Scottish Culture
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The Centre for Scottish Culture @DundeeUni supports studies in Scottish literature, art & history. Contact @profdanielcook & @Allan_D_Kennedy.
Dundee, Scotland
Joined October 2013
𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴? The Centre regularly publishes short (c.800-1,200 word) blog posts on all aspects of Scottish history and culture, and we're keen to showcase a wide range of research, especially from early-career academics.
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NEW: The Scottish Government has significantly increased its investment in culture, improving prospects for artists and organisations at a critical moment. 🏴🎉 It follows months of campaigning and a petition backed by 18,000 Campaign for the Arts supporters. 🧵
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So pleased for @PadraigMacaoidh - he very kindly provided translations for some of the Gaelic poems in this bumper collection, the first in the @OWC_Oxford series to feature Gaelic, as far as I’m aware. https://t.co/aLCIugXI9z
Congratulations to @PadraigMacaoidh [Peter Mackay] on his appointment as Scotland's new Makar (National Poet). Pàdraig is the first Scottish Gaelic poet in the role. He recorded Crann-cuinnse [Quince Tree] to promote the announcement. You can read his poems here 👇
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Did you know that Mary Ann Baxter, the daughter of the family who Mary Shelley stayed with in Dundee, was on of the principal benefactors for the University College, later the University of Dundee? Her portrait is in the Global Room! #GothicWomen
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Walter Scott and Short Fiction (@EdinburghUP) is available for as little as £10.50 - what a way to celebrate #StAndrewsDay! https://t.co/0lhVM1f1TH
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“Awful and stern the rugged entrance low’rs That leads to Caledonia’s last retreats, Where oft in days of yore, contending pow’rs On the dark threshold shone in dreadful feats” Anne Grant, ‘Sonnet’, in The Highlanders, and Other Poems (1808) To celebrate #StAndrewsDay why not
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Check out my guest blog post for @natlibscot, featuring original artworks by Steven Learmonth. This follows last month's roundtable discussion of Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition with Alastair Braidwood and Emily Alder. https://t.co/nssxgilV42
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We're very excited to be part of the #BeingHuman2024 programme! Our events @dundeeuni include… https://t.co/xbYsK6prVB
beinghumanfestival.org
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We're very excited to be part of the #BeingHuman2024 programme! Our events @dundeeuni include… https://t.co/QUxihZRG1k
beinghumanfestival.org
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We're very excited to be part of the #BeingHuman2024 programme! Our events @dundeeuni include… https://t.co/JKOW617PeN
beinghumanfestival.org
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“Treasures: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Scottish Gothic Tradition” | Thursday 5 September 2024 at 17:30 | National Library of Scotland (FREE)
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Dive into the eerie and fascinating world of Scottish Gothic literature with a special focus on Mary Shelley's ‘Frankenstein’
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My FREE @HistoryScotland webinar on 'Women and Serious Crime in Late-17th Century Scotland' is this Thursday. Learn about women as both perpetrators and victims of serious criminality c.1660-c.1700. Sneak preview of my upcoming book with @EdinburghUP! https://t.co/mWGL00O36D
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Delighted to say I'm now @dundeeuni's representative on The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (@SAHA_voice) steering committee. Looking forward to getting stuck in, as ever, and to meeting colleagues across Scotland. 🏴 https://t.co/2t8WyG5oSV "The contribution that
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I’ve been promoted to PROFESSOR (and our first Chair in English and Scottish Literature this century - possibly ever)! #firstgen
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Delighted to have received my editor's copies of 'Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland'. Inordinately proud of this book, which not only breaks new ground, but also showcases lots of brilliant young scholars. Thanks to them all, especially @Sus_Weston, my co-editor.
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Spotted in the Poetry section of Blackwell’s in Oxford:
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Don't miss this free event at @dundeeuni featuring @Allan_D_Kennedy & Gary Welsh. Celebrating the publication of an innovative new Scottish History comic, the talk explores a true-life Scottish criminal case from 1694: https://t.co/eogkHdg5cR
#history #comic
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