Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre

Lewis Grassic Gibbon - A Scots Quair

Part of the Our Class, Our Culture series of educational meetings held in the name of the Morning Star - the only english language Socialist daily paper

The speaker was Pat Stuart who comes from the Mearns in Aberdeenshire and is currently a member of the UNITE exec and Chair of the Women's TUC.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 -- 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer.

Mitchell attracted attention from his earliest attempts at fiction, notably from H.G. Wells, but it was his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair, and in particular its first book Sunset Song, with which he made his mark. A Scots Quair with its combination of realist narrative and lyrical use of dialect is considered to be among the defining works of 20th century Scottish Renaissance.

Scottish national identity | Wikipedia audio article

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Scottish national identity


00:00:36 1 History
00:00:45 1.1 Pre-Union
00:00:54 1.1.1 Early Middle Ages
00:02:09 1.1.2 High Middle Ages
00:03:55 1.1.3 Late Middle Ages
00:07:51 1.1.4 Sixteenth century
00:11:14 1.1.5 Seventeenth century
00:14:07 1.1.6 Union
00:16:18 1.2 Early Union (1707–1832)
00:16:29 1.2.1 Jacobitism
00:18:38 1.2.2 Language
00:19:45 1.2.3 Literature and Romanticism
00:21:53 1.2.4 Tartanry
00:23:55 1.3 Victorian and Edwardian eras (1832–1910)
00:24:07 1.3.1 Industrialisation
00:26:25 1.3.2 Religious fragmentation
00:29:18 1.3.3 Education
00:31:39 1.3.4 Law
00:32:58 1.3.5 Early nationalist movements
00:35:07 1.4 World Wars (1914–1960)
00:35:37 1.4.1 Economic conditions, 1914–1922
00:41:15 1.4.2 Economic conditions from 1922–1960
00:44:27 1.4.3 Literary renaissance
00:46:40 1.5 1960–present day
00:49:28 1.5.1 Devolution
00:49:36 1.5.2 Scottish National Party and Scottish independence
00:53:16 2 Cultural icons



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Scottish national identity is a term referring to the sense of national identity, as embodied in the shared and characteristic culture, languages and traditions, of the Scottish people.
Although the various dialects of Gaelic, the Scots language and Scottish English are distinctive, people associate them all together as Scottish with a shared identity, as well as a regional or local identity. Parts of Scotland, like Glasgow, the Outer Hebrides, the north east of Scotland (including Aberdeen), and the Scottish Borders retain a strong sense of regional identity, alongside the idea of a Scottish national identity.