Piston, Pen & Press in North Lanarkshire primary schools
Place-based learning, industrial heritage and Scots language Over the past few weeks, we have been taking our project into the…
A Daurk Maiter
Guest post in Scots and English by Martin Travers, playwright Wirkin oan ma new play A Daurk Maiter haes buin…
Piston, Pen and Press: Autumnal Update
Whether technically autumn or not (it certainly feels like it outside) it has been a busy few weeks here at Piston, Pen and Press to close the summer. Last week…Continue Reading →
‘Piston, Pen & Press’ and the First World War (4)
A final Armistice Day poem, ‘Remembrance’, from an unidentified author: J. K. Bell’s Rhymes of an Idle Man (London: Arthur H.…
‘Piston, Pen & Press’ and the First World War (3)
Today’s war poems are from J. McDonald, stationmaster in Dalguise, Perth & Kinross. His collection was published during 1918 to…
‘Piston, Pen & Press’ and the First World War (2)
Poems published after the Armistice by working-class writers can be deeply sceptical, as here. John White (1859-1943) worked as a miner and then a tailor in the colliery village of…Continue Reading →
‘Piston, Pen & Press’ and the First World War (I)
As we search for industrial workers up to the 1920s, there are a lot of war poems by working-class writers…
Adventures in Poets’ Corner
We have been lucky enough to gain permission from Glasgow’s Mitchell Library to survey all the books in their ‘Poets’…
‘Stray Green Leaves’: A Mitchell Library Treasure
Whilst working in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow recently, I came across a volume housed in Special Collections called ‘Stray Green Leaves’, which is an anthology that was put together…Continue Reading →
‘Trade Songs’ in The People’s Journal, 1885
Last week, I was at the Dundee Local History Centre looking for evidence of writers who worked in the local…