@WalterScottClub

Founded on 13th June 1894

 Edinburgh, Scotland
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Joined January 2019
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"Keeping the Memory Alive: Building the Scott Club Website" Join Lee A. Simpson for a look behind the scenes at the work of preserving the Club’s history for future generations. Apply to attend here: walterscottclub.com/events #SirWalterScott #ScottishLiterature #LiteraryHistory
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Sir Walter Scott vs. Hugh MacDiarmid: How do we imagine Scotland? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scott sought unity through reconciliation. MacDiarmid sought it through division & radicalism. A fascinating look at how literary giants forged Scottish identity: walterscottclub.com/blog/ima…
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The 2026 winner of the Scottish Literary Studies Medal is Amiran Antadze #ScottishLiteraryStudies #ScottishWriting #ScottishFiction #LiteraryStudies #EnglishLiterature #ContemporaryScottishFiction #UniversityOfEdinburgh
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Professor Katherine Sutherland’s “Waverley and the Problem of History” explored Walter Scott’s treatment of history, memory, progress and displacement — and challenged us to consider whose version of the past is remembered. walterscottclub.com/blog/wav… #WalterScott #Waverley
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The Antiquary (Chapter VII), read by Alasdair Hutton is now on the Club website: walterscottclub.com/readings… #WalterScott
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Professor Alison Lumsden gave a fascinating talk on "The Lay of the Last Minstrel", showing how it helped shape Walter Scott's development as a poet and laid foundations for his later fiction. A thought-provoking evening of Scott scholarship: walterscottclub.com/bloh/twa… #WalterScott
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Tickets are still available for our next lecture: "‘’Twas thus the Latest Minstrel Sung’: The Making of Scott the Poet" with Prof. Ali Lumsden. Tuesday, 16th June 2026, 7pm, Edinburgh. Apply online here: walterscottclub.com/events
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Some recordings wait a long time to be heard again. This performance by Margaret Bennett and a young Martyn Bennett has sat forgotten in the Club archives for decades... walterscottclub.com/blog/an-… #MartynBennett #MargaretBennett #ScottishMusic #Abbotsford @AbbotsfordScott
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Dr. Stuart Allan's lecture on "David Stewart of Garth" from 2018 is currently trending on the Club website: walterscottclub.com/Blog/dav…

David Stewart of Garth, Scott’s “Highlander of the Old Stamp”

Dr. Stuart Allan - David Stewart of Garth, Scott’s “Highlander of the Old Stamp”

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The video from today's Colloquium on Scott’s Journal is now available to watch online: walterscottclub.com/blog/a-c… #SirWalterScott #ScottishLiterature #Abbottford #Romanticism #Edinburgh
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FREE PUBLIC EVENT a Colloquium on Scott’s Journal, Saturday 16th May 2026, 12.00pm, Online. Apply to join the meeting here: walterscottclub.com/tickets
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Our President, Prof. Peter Garside, delivered a witty and thought-provoking Toast, with fascinating insights into Scott’s legacy and Lockhart’s Life of Scott. walterscottclub.com/2025-pro… #SirWalterScott #ScottishLiterature #WaverleyNovels #Abbotsford #ScottClub #LiteraryEdinburgh
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Daniel Mulhall’s lecture compared Daniel O’Connell and Walter Scott—two towering 19th-century figures whose contrasting approaches to politics and culture helped shape Ireland and Scotland’s very different paths. walterscottclub.com/blog/kin…
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40 years ago today (28 March 1986), Scott’s interleaved Waverley Novels and the Pforzheimer manuscripts returned to Edinburgh. A major literary homecoming. #WalterScott #MagnumOpus #ScottishLiterature #OnThisDay walterscottclub.com/blog/a-p…

A private viewing of the Interleaved Set of the Waverley Novels (the so-called ‘Magnum Opus’) and...

1986 saw the return to Scotland of Scott’s interleaved Magnum Opus and Pforzheimer manuscripts, restored to Edinburgh and celebrated by the Scott Club.

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Thanks to some clever detective work by a volunteer at Canongate Kirk, a long-standing mystery has finally been solved: walterscottclub.com/blog/the… #SirWalterScott #Ballantyne #EdinburghHistory #CanongateKirkyard #LiteraryEdinburgh #EdinburghHeritage

The Ballantyne Plaque in Canongate Kirkyard

The Ballantyne plaque in Canongate Kirkyard was erected by the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club and unveiled on 20 June 1953 to honour Scott’s publisher John Ballantyne.

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Tonight's talk by Rosie Waine on Tartan in the Age of Scott is now online: walterscottclub.com/blog/tar… #WalterScott, #SirWalterScott, #Tartan #HighlandDress, #ClanTartan, #ScottishTartan, #KiltHistory #ScottishDress, #ScottishHistory, #ScottishHeritage

Tartan in the Age of Scott

Dr Rosie Waine’s talk on tartan in Scott’s era: Highland dress as evolving fashion, politics and commerce, with museum highlights, Q&A

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We’re delighted to launch the Young Lochinvar Workshop Resource Pack — a free, curriculum-linked drama resource bringing Sir Walter Scott’s famous poem to life in Scottish classrooms walterscottclub.com/workshop… #YoungLochinvar #WalterScott #ScottishLiterature
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We’re delighted to announce that the Central Edinburgh Scott Walk is now complete. walterscottclub.com/the-cent… #SirWalterScott #EdinburghHistory #LiteraryEdinburgh #ScottishLiterature #WalkingTour #EdinburghWalks #CulturalHeritage #HistoricalEdinburgh #Waverley #EdinburghOldTown

A Sir Walter Scott Tour of Edinburgh

An authoritative walking tour of Sir Walter Scott’s Edinburgh, mapping all documented sites through law, literature, urban form, and memorial culture.

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We’ve set ourselves the ambitious task of designing a complete Sir Walter Scott Walking Tour of Edinburgh — Have we missed locations? walterscottclub.com/location… #WalterScott #EdinburghHistory #ScottishLiterature #WaverleyNovels #EdinburghWalkingTour #ScottClub
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There are still a few tickets left for the Lecture on "Tartan in the Age of Scott" by Rosie Waine. Book online: walterscottclub.com/events
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