John Galt Society

Twitter of the John Galt Society which exists to promote the life and works of this great Scottish writer and pioneer of Canadian development (1779-1839).

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Join us on 2 May in Irvine for our Annual Lecture 📢

📚We are also pleased to announce that our new grant covers expenses related to Galt research of up to £1000! What better time to become a Galt scholar?

See below:
https://t.co/NoTFKNBXLd

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Annual Lecture details: 2 May 2025
https://t.co/aHZfMzCjrg

[John Galt Society @JohnGaltSoc]

Annual Lecture details: 2 May 2025
https://t.co/aHZfMzCjrg

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Still time to apply here!

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We have just published details of our Research Grant (up to £500). Please see below and share widely!

https://t.co/NoTFKNBpVF

[John Galt Society @JohnGaltSoc]

We have just published details of our Research Grant (up to £500). Please see below and share widely!

https://t.co/NoTFKNBpVF

[John Galt Society @JohnGaltSoc]

https://t.co/kpiXo4lFIG

Following today's AGM, we are delighted to announce details of the Annual Lecture! Please click the link and get in touch with @craigscrolls to get your ticket!

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https://t.co/kpiXo4lFIG

Following today's AGM, we are delighted to announce details of the Annual Lecture! Please click the link and get in touch with @craigscrolls to get your ticket!

[John Galt Society @JohnGaltSoc]

There is still time to apply for up to £300 for research related to John Galt. Details below!

https://t.co/xIFi6MbT1C

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With thanks to @RhonaLBrown1 for writing it, please find the obituary for our friend Ian McGhee on the site:

https://t.co/BhYJ7pRQBq

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Please share widely! We are looking for applications to our new research grant.

https://t.co/NoTFKNBXLd

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A note on the death of our much-missed friend and champion of Galt Studies, Ian McGhee.

https://t.co/OYoRUpJ5xz

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Good afternoon! Our website will be getting an overhaul soon. In the meantime please see this link for tickets for our next Lecture by Prof Chris Whatley:

https://t.co/DDhP50snDI
https://t.co/spSWW8nDIX

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🎥 🍿 📖

[Craig Lamont @craigscrolls]

Got myself a nice first edition of Galt’s Annals of the Parish.

Partly to aid in making the @JohnGaltSoc video marking the bicentenary of its publication, partly because… I wanted to have it. 📚

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👋

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And another ICYMI

Bob Irvine’s recent essay

‘Presbyterianism, “Scottish Literaure”, and John Galt’s Annals of the Parish’

was published in Studies in Scottish Literature @ScottpScottp

You can read it free here:
https://t.co/X4pUJ6StQU

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Good evening!

ICYMI: the first two volumes of the new Galt edition are now available @EdinburghUP

https://t.co/KZAKzggTFk

[Irvine Townhouse @IrvineTownhouse]

#Irvine and #Guelph come together to commemorate the birth of John Galt, born #OTD in 1779 with a rather special ceremony.

@North_Ayrshire @NAC_Provost @audreynolan @les622 @RhonaEA @cityofguelph @guelphmuseums @DearMrBurns @JohnGaltSoc @Davidbu57687665

https://t.co/dZN3muYHld

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#OTD in 1779 #Irvine author and entrepreneur John Galt was born. Later today we will have a special ceremony to remember Galt.

@North_Ayrshire @NAC_Provost @audreynolan @les622 @RhonaEA @cityofguelph @guelphmuseums #ScottishLiterature #Scots @JohnGaltSoc

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The John Galt Society: Tour of Galt's Glasgow https://t.co/EtoHdjNHyI

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JG Society is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt - first out in 2020 will be Annals of the Parish (ed. Robert Irvine), Three Short Novels (ed. Angela Esterhammer) and Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk (ed. Sharon Alker).