J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) is today known almost exclusively for one work: Peter Pan. Yet he was th...

Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) is one of the giants of modern poetry. Scotland's national poet from 200...

In 1810 a literary phenomenon swept through Britain, Europe and beyond: the publication of Sir Wa...

George MacDonald (1824-1905) is the acknowledged forefather of later fantasy writers such as C. S...

Scotland's culture is vigorous and vibrant, energised by questions of history and identity, by in...

The notion of 'freedom' has long been associated with a number of perceptions deemed fundamental ...

The nineteenth century saw the romanticisation of the Highlander, the rise of tartanry and the em...

John Galt (1779–1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and bi...

James Macpherson’s 'Poems of Ossian', first published from 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry, w...

Between 1400 and 1650 Scotland underwent a series of drastic changes, in court, culture, and reli...

The European age of empires launched a process of capitalist globalisation that continues to the ...

This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children’s lite...