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By Lillian Elliott 12 Nov, 2020
On 12th November 2020, we hosted our first ever live virtual talk, given by Lillian Elliott. We were delighted that Lillian could join us for this important milestone in the Club's 126-year history, and especially pleased that she was able to provide us with such an accessible, nuanced look into her research into Scott's celebrity and its reverberations in the material imagination in the nineteenth century.
By Dr Lucy Wood 10 Sep, 2020
On 10th September 2020 we hosted an online talk by Dr Lucy Wood. She gave us a video tour of sites in the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh connected with Scott.
By Kirsty Archer-Thompson 15 Aug, 2020
On 15th August 2020 we hosted an online talk by Kirsty Archer-Thompson, Collections and Interpretation Manager, The Abbotsford Trust. She gave us an exclusive guide to the artefacts held at Abbotsford relating to Ivanhoe
By Agnes Cunningham 18 Feb, 2019
by Agnes Cunningham with an Introduction by Bridget Falconer-Salkeld
Dryburgh Abbey
By Professor Peter Garside 12 Feb, 2018
Professor Peter Garside gives an account of key burial sites relating to Scott and his family, with a view to religious and other circumstances underlying each, and including details of the hitherto neglected monument to Scott's daughters in Kensal Green Cemetery.
By Alasdair Hutton 21 Sep, 2016
At Dryburgh Abbey today (21st September 2016) our former Chairman, Alasdair Hutton held a ceremony at the grave of Sir Walter.
By Bridget Falconer-Salkeld 06 May, 2016
A visit to the City of Bath in May 2015 was the inspiration for Bridget Falconer-Salkeld’s photo-essay in which she discusses the extended visit to the City by the small boy who was to become the literary Wizard of the North.
By Professor Peter Garside 23 Mar, 2016
Professor Peter Garside describes key places within a narrow space of Edinburgh in which Scott's Waverley novels were originally produced, with links to sites since lost and photos of current locations.
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