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15th July 202115th July 20212 months ago Scottish Left Review 163 Views David Bleiman, Dempsey and Windle, Dr David McKinstry, Holyrood Secondary, This Kilt of Many Colours 4 min read

David Bleiman, This Kilt of Many Colours, Dempsey and Windle, 2021, 9781913329457, £8.00, pp50. Reviewed by David McKinstry This Kilt

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25th May 202125th May 20214 months ago Scottish Left Review 206 Views The Red Paper, Vince Mills 1 min read

The Red Paper Reviewed by Vince Mills. In the latest issue of the Red Paper, it is argued that the

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Opera Review

9th May 20209th May 20201 year ago Scottish Left Review 340 Views Barcelona, Communists, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Katharina Wagner, Lohengrin, Wagnes, Weimar 4 min read

Can lefties like Wagner? Graeme Arnott previews his granddaughters’ forthcoming production of her great-grandfather’s opera ‘Lohengrin’. It’s August 1876 and

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Review – The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

12th November 20183 years ago SLR 416 Views Calvinist bigotry, Edinburgh, literature, predestination, Robert Burns, Walter Scott 2 min read

James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Commentary by Douglas Gifford, Readings by John Sheldon, Association

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Review – International Companion to James Macpherson & the Poems of Ossian

12th November 20183 years ago SLR 369 Views Britishness, Dafydd Moore, Edinburgh University, Gaelic, MP, Ossian, Ossian’s poems, poems, Scottish Gaelic ballads, Westminster Abbey 1 min read

The International Companion to James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian, edited by Dafydd Moore, Scottish Literature International, £14.95, 9781908980199