The land is the central element in ‘Sunset Song’, seemingly timeless and arguably more significant than any of the human characters who struggle to engage with it. Right from…
Scotland came top in a recent survey of 49 European countries of legal measures to guarantee LGBT equality. Older readers of SR will remember that it was not always thus….
My grandfather, Robert M Reid, was 35 years old when the first world war began. Having spent much of his free time over the previous 15 years with the Forfarshire…
‘Queer Voices in Post-War Scotland: Male Homosexuality, Religion and Society’ by Jeffrey Meek (Palgrave) When you read about government ministers and other busy folk falling over themselves to be witnesses…
In each edition, a personal selection of things of value: we ask each contributor to nominate their favourite book, film, piece of music, work of art, restaurant or pub, and…
I still rub my eyes in disbelief when I read the numbers of British casualties on 1 July 1916 – the opening day of the long planned Battle of the…
Some folk couldn’t even wait to hear the result of the referendum before they started celebrating. I went to the local supermarket yesterday just after I voted and there was…
Dundee is not the first city to take a cultural path to regeneration, but the newly opened V&A museum may change Dundee’s profile beyond all recognition. Just as the Guggenheim…
Hearing voices can be a symptom of mental illness. We don’t yet know if the suspect in the Jo Cox murder was hearing hallucinatory voices but the media was quick…
How best do you commemorate a war? A war that was once supposed to be over by Christmas? A war that was supposed to end all wars? A war that…