130 Years
Blog
This is a selection of web-log articles and talks. For the full list of past talks and papers please visit the [Events] page.
On 28th November 2024 we had a talk by Helen Graham on The Real Mackay: Walter Scott’s Favourite Comedian . She was introduced by our Hon. Secretary David McClay.
On Thursday 31st October 2024 we had a talk by Dr. Paul Barnaby on ”Thou with pencil, I with pen”: James Skene’s Artistic Collaboration with Sir Walter Scott . He was introduced by our Chairperson Dr. Lucy Wood
The talk looks at how both Walter Scott and Muriel Spark engage with the ideas of the Borders and of Edinburgh. In the cases of both, these literary topographies emerge as vivid literary landscape, but are also much more uncertain than they might at first appear reflecting the wider complexity of Scotland, the world and the human condition generally.
On Saturday 10th August 2024 we had a Colloquium on Redgauntlet with Prof. Penny Fielding, Ian Chisholm, Prof. David Purdie, Lord Stewart and James Wolffe. They were introduced by our Hon. Secretary, David McClay.
On Thursday 6th June 2024 we had a talk by Eric Milligan. He was introduced by our Chairperson, Dr. Lucy Wood.
On Thursday 11th April 2024 we had a talk by Greg Moodie. He was introduced by our Chairperson, Dr. Lucy Wood.
On 16th November 2023 we had a talk by David McClay on Scott and the Speculative Society . He was introduced by our Chairperson Dr. Lucy Wood.
On Thursday, 12th October we had a joint lecture with the English Literature Dept of Edinburgh University.
Dr Valentina Bold was introduced by Dr. Lucy Wood.
On Thursday 14th September 2023 we had a talk by Dr Anna Pilz. She was introduced by our Chairperson, Dr. Lucy Wood.
On Saturday 12th August we had a Colloquium on Quentin Durward with J. H. Alexander and Dr Lesley Graham. They were introduced by our Chairperson, Dr. Lucy Wood.
On Thursday 1st June 2023 we had a talk by Hilary Clydesdale. She was introduced by our Chairperson, Dr. Lucy Wood.
On Thursday 2nd June 2022 we had a talk by Ian Chisholm on Scott as a Historian. He was introduced by our Chairperson, Dr. Lucy Wood.
On Thursday 14th October 2021 we had a joint-lecture with the Edinburgh University English Department given by Dr David Stewart. He was introduced by our chairman Prof. Iain Torrance.
On Thursday 23rd September 2021 we had a talk by Prof. Murdo Macdonald. He was introduced by our chairman Prof. Iain Torrance
On 8th April 2021 The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club virtually hosted a talk by Ray Perman.
On 12th November 2020, we hosted our first ever live virtual talk, given by Lillian Elliott. We were delighted that Lillian could join us for this important milestone in the Club's 126-year history, and especially pleased that she was able to provide us with such an accessible, nuanced look into her research into Scott's celebrity and its reverberations in the material imagination in the nineteenth century.
On Thursday 15th October 2021 we had a talk by Dr. Daniel Cook
On 10th September 2020 we hosted an online talk by Dr Lucy Wood. She gave us a video tour of sites in the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh connected with Scott.
On 15th August 2020 we hosted an online talk by Kirsty Archer-Thompson, Collections and Interpretation Manager, The Abbotsford Trust. She gave us an exclusive guide to the artefacts held at Abbotsford relating to Ivanhoe
On Thursday 5th March 2020 we had a talk by Dr. Margaret Connolly. She was introduced by our chairman Prof. Iain Torrance
On Thursday 4th April 2019 we had a talk by Gillian Hughes. She was introduced by our Chairman, Prof Peter Garside.
by Agnes Cunningham
with an Introduction by Bridget Falconer-Salkeld
On Thursday 29th November 2018 we had a talk by Prof. Angela Esterhammer. She was introduced by our Chairman, Prof. Peter Garside.
On Thursday 4th October 2018 we had a talk by David Bruce. He was introduced by our Chairman Prof. Peter Garside.
On Thursday 14th June 2018 we had a talk by our Chairman, Professor Peter Garside
Professor Peter Garside gives an account of key burial sites relating to Scott and his family, with a view to religious and other circumstances underlying each, and including details of the hitherto neglected monument to Scott's daughters in Kensal Green Cemetery.
On Thursday 9th November 2017 we had a talk by Dr. Ralph McLean. He was introduced by our Chairman, Prof. Peter Garside.
On Thursday 14th September 2017 we had a talk by Josi S. Kilpack. She was introduced by our Chairman, Prof. Peter Garside
On Thursday 15th June 2017 we had a talk by Prof. Jeremy J. Smith. He was introduced by our Chairman, Prof. Peter Garside
On Thursday 2nd February 2017 we had a talk by Dr. Ewan Morris. He was introduced by our Chairman, Prof. Peter Garside:
At Dryburgh Abbey today (21st September 2016) our former Chairman, Alasdair Hutton held a ceremony at the grave of Sir Walter.
On Thursday 16th June 2016 we had a talk by Prof. Murray Pittock. He was introduced by our Chairman, Prof. Peter Garside
A visit to the City of Bath in May 2015 was the inspiration for Bridget Falconer-Salkeld’s photo-essay in which she discusses the extended visit to the City by the small boy who was to become the literary Wizard of the North.
On Thursday 7th April 2016 we had a talk by Lara Haggerty. She was introduced by our Chairperson, Alasdair Hutton.
Professor Peter Garside describes key places within a narrow space of Edinburgh in which Scott's Waverley novels were originally produced, with links to sites since lost and photos of current locations.
On Thursday 8th October 2015 we had a Joint Lecture with the English Literature Dept of Edinburgh University. Professor Caroline McCracken-Flesher was introduced by our Chairman, Alasdair Hutton.
On Thursday 15th May 2015 we had a talk by Jenni Calder. She was introduced by our Chairman, Alasdair Hutton.
On Thursday 16th April 2015 we had a talk by Prof. Gerard Carruthrers. He was introduced by our Chairman, Alasdair Hutton.
This article is taken from our 7th Annual Bulletin (1901).
