The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club

Founded on 13th June 1894

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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: https://t.co/LUWlk0w3Ck

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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... https://t.co/uKFCIK5XPV
#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:
https://t.co/xRzLclvt5y

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The video from today's Colloquium on Scott’s Journal is now available to watch online: https://t.co/929yfJxfyP
#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:
https://t.co/VcidNJCbiX

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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.
https://t.co/axkxVKPd8J
#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.
https://t.co/Am1TGDJDny

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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 https://t.co/2Z70ht6Vkn

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Thanks to some clever detective work by a volunteer at Canongate Kirk, a long-standing mystery has finally been solved: https://t.co/IR6mLNSf9W #SirWalterScott #Ballantyne #EdinburghHistory #CanongateKirkyard #LiteraryEdinburgh #EdinburghHeritage

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Tonight's talk by Rosie Waine on Tartan in the Age of Scott is now online: https://t.co/BLbQXlJYzj
#WalterScott, #SirWalterScott, #Tartan
#HighlandDress, #ClanTartan, #ScottishTartan, #KiltHistory
#ScottishDress, #ScottishHistory, #ScottishHeritage

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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 https://t.co/n3QsRLWRJz
#YoungLochinvar #WalterScott #ScottishLiterature

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We’re delighted to announce that the Central Edinburgh Scott Walk is now complete.
https://t.co/MGFJC0jGBQ
#SirWalterScott #EdinburghHistory #LiteraryEdinburgh #ScottishLiterature #WalkingTour #EdinburghWalks #CulturalHeritage #HistoricalEdinburgh #Waverley #EdinburghOldTown

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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? https://t.co/FWUEaOtUzN
#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: https://t.co/LUWlk0w3Ck

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The Reading of "Wandering Willie's Tale" by John Nicol is currently trending on our website:
https://t.co/505q26XyuC
#WanderingWilliesTale
#Redgauntlet
#WalterScott
#SirWalterScott
#ScottishLiterature
#GothicFiction
#SupernaturalFiction
#GhostStory
#Supernatural

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Our new programme of events is live on the club website: https://t.co/LUWlk0w3Ck

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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 https://t.co/tataXsfQrr

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Here is the first published submission to our Reading Scott project: https://t.co/4QNkJfW1Pn #ReadingScott

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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:
https://t.co/yUtCqfBxiB

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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.
https://t.co/Jp9pyYYikc