The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club

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

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

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/workshops #YoungLochinvar #WalterScott #ScottishLiterature

We’re delighted to announce that the Central Edinburgh Scott Walk is now complete. walterscottclub.com/the-central-ed… #SirWalterScott #EdinburghHistory #LiteraryEdinburgh #ScottishLiterature #WalkingTour #EdinburghWalks #CulturalHeritage #HistoricalEdinburgh #Waverley #EdinburghOldTown

We’ve set ourselves the ambitious task of designing a complete Sir Walter Scott Walking Tour of Edinburgh — Have we missed locations? walterscottclub.com/locations #WalterScott #EdinburghHistory #ScottishLiterature #WaverleyNovels #EdinburghWalkingTour #ScottClub

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

The Reading of "Wandering Willie's Tale" by John Nicol is currently trending on our website: walterscottclub.com/john-nichol-re… #WanderingWilliesTale #Redgauntlet #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #ScottishLiterature #GothicFiction #SupernaturalFiction #GhostStory #Supernatural

Our new programme of events is live on the club website: walterscottclub.com/events

Steven Watson a musician and doctoral researcher from Ware has submitted this recording from Chapter 1 of Ivanhoe as the Club's Public Readings of Scott Project #ReadingScott walterscottclub.com/steven-watson-…

Here is the first published submission to our Reading Scott project: walterscottclub.com/edward-hocknel… #ReadingScott

We are saddened to learn of the death of Allan Massie - a distinguished writer, critic and long-standing friend of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. Allan served as our President in 1989: walterscottclub.com/1989-allan-mas…

Read a short extract of a Sir Walter Scott publication that would not only convince others of his greatness but would also impel them to read him too. Submit the Recording of yourself reading Scott for us to consider including on the Club website. walterscottclub.com/submitreading

We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Lt. Cdr. Dairmid Gunn OBE. He served on the Club Council from 1988 to 2020 and was Chairperson from 1999-2002. He had also given 10 lectures to the Club: Obituary: walterscottclub.com/dairmid-gunn-o… He will be greatly missed.

The article on "The Meeting-place of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns" from our 28th Annual Report (1926) is currently trending on the Club website: walterscottclub.com/blog/the-meeti… #RobertBurns #WalterScott #AdamFerguson #SciennesHillHouse

Professor Claire Lamont's talk on "Waverley and Jacobite Mythology" from 1991 (with audio) is currently trending on the Club website: walterscottclub.com/blog/waverley-…

Here is an easy New Year's Resolution to make. Join the Scott Club: walterscottclub.com/join Our exciting programme of events will be announced in January.

Arnold Kemp's talk on "Sir Walter Scott and Politics" from 2000 is currently trending on the Club website: walterscottclub.com/blog/sir-walte…

A. G. Stevenson's article on "Alexander Smith: The Scott Forger" from 1996 is currently trending on the Club website: walterscottclub.com/blog/alexander… #AntiqueSmith

We are saddened to announced the death of Kathleen Hardie. Kath was such an active member - serving on the Council for 20 years. In 2009 she read from Scott's Journal: walterscottclub.com/kathleen-hardi… and in 2010 she gave a talk to the Club on Thomas Moore. She will be dearly missed.

This talk by David Daiches from 1994 is unexpectedly trending on our website this week. It has received 229 visits already: walterscottclub.com/Blog/character…