Ossian’s Last Stand?
27 May, online. Tickets from £3.55

For over a century after the publication of James Macpherson’s Ossianic epics, controversy raged over their authenticity. In this talk, Prof Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart will look at how the literary battle lines were drawn on both sides, & how the controversy was fought out, in books, magazines, letters, & reports.

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Ossian’s Last Stand? - Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart - Zoom

In this concluding talk, we’ll look at how the literary battle lines were drawn on both sides

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Wallington Bridge

A photo from last weekend’s jaunt up Northumberland, we called in at Wallington Hall on the way home.

This National Trust property is a sign that one can build a very good name if one is willing to import enough rum and sugar. This truth is not exactly comfortable for those who prefer their history without a side of human suffering.

The Blacketts ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/02/wallington-bridge/

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Books by Galt, John

Project Gutenberg offers 78,393 free eBooks for iPhone, iPad, Kobo, Android and Kindle.

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John Galt’s fictional works – poised between Enlightenment and Romanticism – are sharp political satires & fascinating chronicles of Scottish life. Our INTERNATIONAL COMPANION to Galt is available in print, or online via Project MUSE

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“Between Whigs and Tories I can make no distinction,—a Tory is but a Whig in office, and a Whig but a Tory in opposition”

—John Galt, THE MEMBER (1832). Described as “the first political novel tout court”, it’s available as an ebook from @canongatebooks

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The Member And The Radical by John Galt - Canongate Books

The Member And The Radical by John Galt - ebook (9781847675231) published by Canongate. Edited and introduced by P.H. Scott & Ian Gordon

“I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”

—Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s 1821 novel ANNALS OF THE PARISH

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B-Sides: John Galt’s “Annals of the Parish” - Public Books

For 30 or 40 years a book has been lurking on my shelves, a beautiful little Everyman’s Library edition published by Dent and Dutton, undated, with red fake leather binding …

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“[Galt’s] realism is hard-headed, his compassion is tough-minded, his humour contagious but tainted with the sense that chaos and catastrophe are never far away”

—Prof Alan Riach on the fiction of John Galt (1779–1839), born #OTD, 2 May – a 🎂🧵

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Kirby Bank — A Hill With a Past

Bluebells pour down the sun-baked flank of Kirby Bank above the plain of Cleveland. Gorse burns yellow across the slopes. Below, the white walls of the Pybus Scout Centre gleam in the spring light. Beyond the green patchwork of fields, Roseberry Topping rises on the far hor ...

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