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A timely and very productive conference on the Scots language was recently held during the latest Burns anniversary. Called Scots@ed it was held in the University of Edinburgh on 25 January and brought …
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Queen Mary was born into a royal court in which administration, cultural expression, debate, poetry and politics were usually conducted in either Scots or Latin. The Scots language is a branch of …
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Songs are made for a variety of reasons by a variety of people.This song was made by Scott Murray of the Fife song group Sangsters. Scott went to visit a group of elderly ladies living in Ladywalk House …
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This song is about Scots lassies from the fishing communities of the North East of Scotland going down to the English port of Yarmouth to gut the herring.The song was made to a traditional tune by …
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Nearly 200 years ago, the Scottish whaling ship the Diamond is leaving port, heading on the dangerous journey through the pack ice to the Davis Strait between Greenland and Canada.The Diamond is a ship, …
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This magnificent song was written by Hamish Henderson in 1960 for the peace marchers at the Holy Loch near Glasgow. The tune is the World War I pipe march, The Bloody Fields of Flanders.Henderson …
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This song combines an old Gaelic tune, a Russian poem remade by a Scots maker, two Scots traditional singers and four classically trained Russian singers. The song performed here by Christine Kydd, Ewan …
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A beautiful and much-loved song about Scots gypsy-travellers knowing that it is time to stop living in their winter house and to go out and travel the roads.The signal is that the yellow blossoms have …
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Another poem from Perthshire poet Margaret Gillies Brown, from her new diehard book Ilka Spring. Margaret is now in her late eighties and has been writing and publishing poems in Scots since the …
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'A Dug, A Dug', by Bill Keys, is one of the poems from 'The Kist' - an anthology of Scots (and Gaelic) poetry and prose that was digitised by Education Scotland …