The detailed ledger will help historians reconstruct the poet’s beloved farm as it was when he and his family first lived in it.
- Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow
The politics may have changed over the years, but the literary obsessions of ‘northern Britain’ seem hard to shake.
Why Scotland should raise a glass to a certain Brummie Bill.
As the literary world says goodbye to the Big Man from Kilmarnock, his friend Gerard Carruthers remembers a writer at the heights of the British canon.
He was public enemy number one in his day, but Thomas Muir is now being hailed as the father of Scottish democracy.
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