Mastodawn

See thon raws o flint arraheids
in oor gret museums o antiquities
awful grand in Embro –
Dae’ye near’n daur wunner at wur histrie?
Weel then, Bewaur!
The museums of Scotland are wrang…

—Kathleen Jamie, “Arraheids”
from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay

Assoc for Scottish Literature 1h ago

This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid…

—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for The National Museum of Scotland

Today, 18 May, is International Museum Day

https://icom.museum/en/international-museum-day-2/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #LewisChessmen #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay

dotScot Registry 9h ago

#dotScot race across the world continues with #Scots #Australia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🌏🤝

https://dot.scot/blog/2026/professor-stewart-gill-on-scot-and-the-scots-in-australia/

Professor Stewart Gill on .scot and the Scots in Australia • dotScot Registry

I have lived in Australia since the mid 1980s and had long involvement with the Scottish community through running Scottish studies and history programs in Melbourne including a course in Scottish History at the University of Melbourne. I also served…Continue reading →

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Assoc for Scottish Literature 3d ago

Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin’ through the strife,
Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty
Lichts the grey o’ life.

—“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born #OTD, 15 May

2/4

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sea-buckthorn/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage

jdmccafferty 3d ago

15 May 1567: Mary Queen of #Scots marries Bothwell in a protestant ceremony in the great hall at #Holyroodhouse #otd

jdmccafferty 6d ago

12 May 1567: Mary Queen of #Scots declares formally #otd that while she had not welcomed the recent abduction she was now a free agent & so willing to marry Bothwell

Assoc for Scottish Literature 6d ago

Frae fields whare Spring her sweets has blawn
Wi’ caller verdure our the lawn,
The Gowdspink comes in new attire,
The brawest ’mang the whistling choir…

—Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “Ode to the Gowdspink”
from The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson (Glasgow, 1800)

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #Spring #birds #naturepoetry #goldfinch

Assoc for Scottish Literature May 9

New Open-Access ebook

Atlas of Scottish History to 1707
published by the ‪Society of Antiquaries of Scotland‬

Almost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts

https://books.socantscot.org/digital-books/catalog/book/25

#Scottish #history #IronAge #Roman #Picts #Scots #DálRiata #Vikings #Norse #AngloSaxon #earlymedieval #medieval #latemedieval #renaissance #earlymodern