Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie and host Alistair Heather are joined in the Scottish Poetry Library by some of the most talented and vital voices in modern Scottish letters. Enjoy poetry readings and enlightening discussion. Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
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To mark the opening of the ‘Treasures of the National Library of Scotland’, we’ve asked some of Scotland’s real life national treasures to select their favourite items from the exhibition. Hosted by Julia Sutherland, this series of podcasts takes a deeper dive into the objects, collections and artefacts that each guest finds most interesting. They explore the historical significance of the items to the country, and how that resonates with them personally. Featuring Grant Stott, Liz Lochhead, ...
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The Scottish Review of Books Podcast amplifies the print and online offerings of Scotland’s critical quarterly. Episodes contain interviews with the magazine’s writers and editors, discussion of articles in new issues, original essays, and reporting from across Scotland’s cultural landscape.
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525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth: A New History of The University of Aberdeen
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From its ancient origins in the 1495 founding of King’s College through to thriving global endeavours in 2020, the University of Aberdeen boasts a historic legacy spanning 525 years of leading and engaging with intellectual currents of the wider world. Yet quatercentenary and quincentennial memorial histories of the University of Aberdeen portray the institution from a regional and national perspective. The Aberdeen University librarian between 1894 and 1926, Peter John Anderson (1853-1926), ...
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If you thought history was dull, dry and boring, you haven't read Bill Nye's books! He brings wit, humor, satire, irony and sheer nonsensical fun into the subject, making it both entertaining and memorable. The Comic History of England was published posthumously in 1896 after the writer's tragic and untimely death half-way through the project. Hence it remains incomplete and covers the history of the island nation only up to the Tudor period. However, beginning with Julius Caesar, the Roman ...
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Male friendships: Andrew Greig and Michael Pedersen
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'Me and my Dad will just about manage a handshake'. Is male emotionality a barrier we have to break down? And are male friendships changing generationally? Poets Andrew Greig and Michael Pedersen join Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie and Alistair Heather to examine, through their own work, how relationships between males are depicted in Scottish writi…
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01 Invasion of Caesar: The Discovery of Tin and Subsequent Enlightenment of Britain
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02 The Various Roman Yokes: Their Growth, Degeneration, and Final Elimination
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03 The Advent of the Angles: Causes Which Led to the Rehabilitation of Britain on New Lines
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04 The Influx of the Danes: Facts Showing Conclusively Their Influence on the Britain of Today
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05 The Troublous Middle Ages: Demonstrating a Short Reign for Those Who Travel at a Royal Gait
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06 The Danish Oligarchy: Disaffections Attending Chronic Usurpation Proclivities
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07 Other Disagreeable Claimants: Foreign Foibles Introduced, Only to be Expunged with Characteristic Pugnacity
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08 The Norman Conquest: Complex Commingling of Facetious Accord and Implaccable Discord
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09 The Feudal System: Successful Inauguration of Homogeneal Methods for Restricting Incompatable Demagogues
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10 The Age of Chivalry: Light Dissertation on the Knights-Errant, Maids, Fools, Prelates, and Other Notorious Characters of that Period
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11 Conquest of Ireland: Uncomfortable Effects Following the Cultivation of an Acquisitorial Propensity
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12 Magna Charta Introduced: Slight Difficulties Encountered in Overcoming an Unpopular and Unreasonable Prejudice
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13 Further Disagreements Recorded: Illustrating the Amiability of the Jew and the Perversity of the Scot
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14 Irritability of the French: Interminable Dissension, Assisted by the Plague, Continues Reducing the Population
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15 More Sanguinary Triumphs: Onward March of Civilization Graphically Delineated with the Historian’s Usual Completeness
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16 Unpleasant Caprices of Royalty: Introduction of Printing as a Subsidiary Aid in the Progress of Emancipation
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17 Biography of Richard III: Being an Allegorical Panegyric of the Incontrovertible Machinations of an Egotistical Usurper
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Inheritance: Niall Campbell - live at Push The Boat Out 2023
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Multi-award winning poet Niall Campbell joins Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie and host Alistair Heather on stage at the Push The Boat Out poetry festival 2023. Our theme is inheritance and tradition. To access poetry for free in person, via post, or online, please find details at the Scottish Poetry Library website here. The Lantern Scottish Poetry p…
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18 Disorder Still the Popular Fad: General Admixture of Pretenders, Religion, Politics, and Disgruntled Monarchs
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Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie and host Alistair Heather are joined in person by Brian Holton, and from Covid isolation, by TikTok poet Len Pennie. Our theme is time is solitude - in Fife and ancient China. To access poetry for free in person, via post, or online, please find details at the Scottish Poetry Library website here. The Lantern Scottish …
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Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie and host Alistair Heather are joined by Don Paterson and Roshni Gallagher, to share poems and chat in the Scottish Poetry Library. Our theme for this episode is water. To access poetry for free in person, via post, or online, please find details at the Scottish Poetry Library website here. The Lantern Scottish Poetry p…
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Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie and host Alistair Heather welcome two excellent poets to the Scottish Poetry Library. In this first episode, they share poems and discussion around the theme of reading. To access poetry for free in person, via post, or online, please find details at the Scottish Poetry Library website here. The Lantern Scottish Poetry…
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Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie and host Alistair Heather welcome some of the most vital voices in Scottish letters to Edinburgh's Scottish Poetry Library. Produced by Bespoken Media, and supported by Creative Scotland.By Scottish Poetry Library
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Jo Caulfield, Martel Maxwell and Jamie MacDonald
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'Treasures of The National Library of Scotland' is a new permanent exhibition at the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. It provides a unique insight into Scotland’s history, culture and people and its place in the world. At the Library we collect and preserve the memory of the Scottish nation on behalf of the people of Sco…
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Liz Lochhead, Damian Barr and Leanne Crichton
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'Treasures of The National Library of Scotland' is a new permanent exhibition at the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. It provides a unique insight into Scotland’s history, culture and people and its place in the world. At the Library we collect and preserve the memory of the Scottish nation on behalf of the people of Sco…
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Grant Stott, Len Pennie and Sanjeev Kohli
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'Treasures of the National Library of Scotland' is a new permanent exhibition at the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. It provides a unique insight into Scotland’s history, culture and people and its place in the world. At the Library we collect and preserve the memory of the Scottish nation on behalf of the people of Sco…
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Coming Soon: Treasures of The National Library of Scotland
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To mark the opening of the ‘Treasures of The National Library of Scotland’, we’ve asked some of Scotland’s real life national treasures to select their favourite items from the exhibition. Hosted by Julia Sutherland, this series of podcasts takes a deeper dive into the objects, collections and artifacts that each guest finds most interesting. They …
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525 Years of Collecting and Care: The libraries, archives and museums of the University of Aberdeen
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For 525 years, the historic libraries, archives and museum of the University of Aberdeen have been enriched by donations, gifts and acquisitions leading to collections which are now of international significance. As a curator of that historic material, Jane Pirie identifies key donors and figures involved in the care and formation of collections fr…
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Lord Strathcona, Canada, and the University of Aberdeen, 1820-1906
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This podcast focuses on the career of one of the University’s major benefactors at the turn of the twentieth Century, its Forres-born Chancellor Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona from 1897. It traces his connection to the University and then tracks back, looking at how he acquired wealth and prestige at the heart of the transition in British North Amer…
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Economics at Aberdeen: The Legacy of Sir Thomas Jaffrey, Bt (1855-1953)
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In this year of the 525th anniversary of the University of Aberdeen, its Department of Economics is also celebrating an anniversary – the centenary of the Jaffrey Chair in Political Economy. This podcast by Economics Professor Keith Bender highlights the life of Sir Thomas Jaffrey Bt, the early 20th century Aberdonian banker and philanthropist who …
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The Influence of Professor Herbert J.C. Grierson, 1866-1960
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Cairns Craig, Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies, recounts the influence of the first holder of the chair in English Literature at Aberdeen University, Professor H.J.C. Grierson. Grierson was closely involved with major poets of the early twentieth century, such as W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot, because of the influence of his edition of…
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James Ramsay (1733-1789): Scottish Abolitionism in the Anglo-Atlantic World
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This podcast explores the life and influence of the Rev. James Ramsay, an Anglican priest, ship’s surgeon, and pioneering abolitionist who was educated at King’s College between 1749 and 1753. Ramsay’s anti-slavery convictions were born out of the experience of fifteen years as a preacher and medical attendant to the enslaved population of the isla…
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James Beattie (1735-1803): Philosopher and Poet
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In 1773 James Beattie, professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic at Marischal College, Aberdeen, visited London to petition (successfully) for a royal pension on the back of his sudden fame as author of An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, In Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism (1770), an attack on the ‘infidelity’ of the times, and t…
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Thomas Reid (1710-1796): The Wise Club in the Aberdeen Enlightenment
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The intellectual history of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, known as the ‘Wise Club’ after its founding in 1758, maps onto the institutional history of King’s and Marischal colleges in the eighteenth century. The proceedings of philosophical and literary societies were woven into the fabric of eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment intellect…
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Duncan Liddel (1561-1613): Medicine and Mathematics during Northern Europe's Age of Confessionalisation
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The endowment of a chair in Mathematics in 1613 was one of Duncan Liddel's most important legacies for Marischal College. After a life of study in Poland and Northern Germany, and a career of over ten years at one of Germany's famous Protestant reform universities in Helmstedt, under the patronage of Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Liddel returne…
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The Local Rise and International Role of Marischal College, 1593-1860
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From its inception the purpose of Marischal College is fascinating. Most historical discussion has centred on its being a more seriously ‘Protestant’ alternative to the Episcopal (by which many mean crypto-Catholic) King’s College in Old Aberdeen. Unfortunately, this does not hold up to scrutiny. Founded as a civic university that catered to the so…
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Before and after Bishop Elphinstone: Creativity and learning in medieval and renaissance Aberdeen
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King’s College has a prehistory. Dr Jackson Armstrong (Senior Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen) sheds new light on the founding of King’s College as a kingdom-building endeavour that underscored Scottish engagement with the age of the renaissance. This involved the tenure of Archdeacon John Barbour at the medieval cathedral of St Machar’…
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The Lost Poets at the National Library of Scotland
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Emerging Critics Season 2, 2018: Opening Seminar
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This is a recording of the opening seminar for the second season of the Scottish Review of Books Emerging Critics Programme, held at the National Library of Scotland in April 2018. Jan Rutherford chaired the event, which features contributions from Alan Taylor, Rosemary Goring, Alan Bett, and Laura Waddell. The programme is supported by Creative Sc…
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Muriel Spark: The Crème de la Crème
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This is a recording of Muriel Spark, the Crème de la Crème, an event presented by the Edinburgh International Book Festival in association with publisher Birlinn Limited and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. It was held at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh on 31st January 2018 to celebrate the centenary of Muriel Spark’s birth. The event is introduced …
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Episode 5 – Emerging Critics, part 5 – Dave Coates
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Kristian Kerr talks with Emerging Critics mentor Dave Coates about expanding review coverage to include a variety of voices, challenging our conscious and unconscious biases as readers and writers, connections between academic and journalistic literary criticism, and the knotty issue of money.By Scottish Review of Books
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Episode 4 – Emerging Critics, part 4 – Keeping the reader’s attention
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In this episode David Robinson tells Kristian Kerr about his first meeting with his four mentees, who have been writing reviews of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Discussion topics include writing for the public, keeping a reader’s attention, reading each other’s work and being confident without being glib.…
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Episode 3 – Emerging Critics, part 3 – Kaite Welsh
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Kristian Kerr talks with Emerging Critics mentor and Creative Scotland Literature Officer Kaite Welsh. Kaite offers perspectives on reviewing for print and online platforms and the complementary relationship between the two. Other areas of conversation include pitching to editors and the editorial process; book vlogging and the old chestnut of book…
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Episode 2 – Emerging Critics, part 2 – Rosemary Goring
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This conversation with Literary Editor Rosemary Goring offers perspective on the current practice of reviewing. Rosemary and Kristian discuss criticism as surgical and precise as well as being more broadly diagnostic of the health of a culture. The conversation ranges across the health of the profession too, and Rosemary reflects on the changes in …
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Episode 1 – Emerging Critics, part 1 – An Introduction
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Editor Alan Taylor and Kristian Kerr discuss the Emerging Critics Programme, a partnership between the SRB and Creative Scotland, established to mentor new voices in cultural criticism. Topics include the state of criticism in Scotland today, the centrality of newspapers to cultural commentary, how we might adopt and adapt to new formats – all with…
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