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Showing posts with label scots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scots. Show all posts
Tuesday, 30 September 2025

SCOTS Activists Groups

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  Here are some of the most significant major Scots activist groups, who since 2014  -  working hard for Scotland’s future democracy.    Sco...

Revival Scots Language

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  I attended a talk last week by the Scots poet Len Pennie at Dreamworks Bookshop Milngavie Pennie’s poems have more lilting lyrical musical...
Saturday, 30 August 2025

Cultural History Disconnects

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Cultural History Disconnects   I had a big disconnect between my primary school and secondary school. At primary we had Scottish dancing, Sc...

Mark Kermode Front list with Brian Cox EIBF 2025

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Film critic Mark Kermode gave a Front List talk with renowned Scots actor Brian Cox, and Scots actors Kate Dickie and Michelle Gomez.   Bria...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

Scots & 250 Years of Founding American Independence

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  The general ignorance of Scots history and contributions worldwide. How many Scots have heard of the “Scottish Enlightenment” – or have an...

Festivals made in London shipped to Scotland

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The Edinburgh Film festival  Is the oldest film festival in the world, honouring over 70 years. However - The Edinburgh Film Festival has be...
Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Is Wales ahead of Scotland now

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  Wales has decided to improve the faulty supposedly PR (proportional representation) voting system given to its Devolved government in 1999...
Monday, 30 June 2025

Hinterlands and Confusions

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Hinterlands, so we are confused, what is going on? Regrets over what might have been or could have been here in Scotland. Our voices lost. I...
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Bob Dylan and his Scots folk music traditions

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I enjoyed reading the informed article 'The Scottish folk origins of Dylan’s best loved tracks', Ruairdh Mackenzie, Sunday National ...
Friday, 29 November 2024

Scotland is not listened to

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Scotland is not listened to III ….and neither are ordinary voices across the UK  (We need voices of Reform )   I have been told by some – ‘a...
Saturday, 29 June 2024

Scots Voices across the World

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    The Lubeck letter William Wallace, 1297, addressed the Hanseatic ports of Hamburg and Lubeck - that Scotland was open for business again...
Saturday, 10 February 2024

Scots Gaelic Kim Carnie Transatlantic Sessions, Celtic Connections 2024, #ccfest2024,

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  Scots Gaelic singer songwriter, Kim Carnie, lead singer with Manran, performed at the Transatlantic Sessions, Celtic Connections 2024, #cc...