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Know Your History 27 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
A new series, Know Your History offers up political and cultural slices of the past for you. Write us and suggest one? To kick us off here’s rare film of Neil Young busking in Glasgow city center, Apr...
Democracy Max 27 Aug 2013 | 05:45 pm
By Juliet Swann As the Edinburgh festivals celebration of artistic endeavour and creativity drew to a close ERS Scotland shared the results of 13 months of political endeavour and creativity with the ...
Struileag/Shore to Shore Update 27 Aug 2013 | 12:23 am
Great news! We have been commissioning new songs, poetry, text and music over the last few months and this weekend we are holding a work in progress weekend this week when we will rehears and record s...
Protest Overview 26 Aug 2013 | 09:32 pm
This is from Ultraculture who introduce it saying: “Penn State doctoral candidate John Beieler has created a time-lapse visualization of every protest on the planet since 1979. What you’ll see is tiny...
The Land that Time Forgot 25 Aug 2013 | 04:06 am
By Mike Small Steve Richards and Alex Massie can’t both be right. Richards has argued in the Guardian (‘Scotland is going it alone’): Scotland becomes more markedly different than ever. In Scotland th...
Gaelic Revival 25 Aug 2013 | 03:30 am
By Arthur Cormack Neil Mcrae (‘What Gaelic Revival?’) quotes a foreword to Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s Annual Report written by me when I was the Bòrd’s Interim Chair. He does so extremely selectively, but tha...
Gaelic Revival – What Gaelic Revival? 23 Aug 2013 | 06:56 pm
By Neil Macrae With the 2011 Census results nervously awaited, even Bòrd na Gàidhlig agrees that the decline in the number of Gaelic speakers will continue. Surely there is now a need to completely re...
Crowded Out 22 Aug 2013 | 09:06 pm
By Donald Adamson When the date for the independence referendum was announced in March this year there were a number of pessimistic voices in Scotland who predicted that such a lengthy run-up to polli...
Punk Fiddle 21 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
Punk Fiddle by Jim Ferguson (Whirlpool Press) reviewed by Peter Burnett “Bobby is a 30 something Glaswegian who plays pool for money. He finds himself waking up in an Edinburgh hospital and tries to ...
Digging the Seam 21 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
How the 1984-5 miners’ strike for jobs inspired film, art, music and literature, is explored in a series of essays in a new book. Photographer Peter Arkell, who wrote about how journalists and photogr...
