Mining Family Connections. Part II: Edward Hunter
In the second part of his series, our guest blogger, Bill Welsh, discusses his research on James C. Welsh’s brother-in-law,…
Mining Family Connections. Part I: James C. Welsh
We are delighted to introduce the first of a two-part series by our guest blogger, Bill Welsh, whose great-uncle was…
MOOCs & the co-production of knowledge
As part of the Piston, Pen & Press project and with the assistance of our partner institutions, we’ve been running three MOOCs under the ‘Working Lives’ banner. The third outing for our…Continue Reading →
James Milligan: Carlisle Cotton Spinner Poet
While our archival research is still on hold due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, the ‘Piston, Pen and Press’ team has…
Jessie Conqueror: Tracking a Working-Class Woman Poet
Writing up entries for the ‘Piston, Pen & Press’ database continually produces new findings. Even without access to our usual…
Monday Mornings
Five-thirty a.m., an a middlin crowd mornin. Hooooooo-eeeeeee. Ohhoooeeeeeee. Dunno be alarmed, I’m nobbut tryin to imitate a mornin buzzer wi cowd type. Ooh———-, EEeeeeeeeeeooooooooo. Han yo getten me? Bang bang bang bang bang…Continue Reading →
Poems on Places – Cathedral Primary, Motherwell
During the lockdown, we’re missing the chance to get out and do more poetry workshops with Scottish primary schools, which…
‘Piston, Pen and Press’: Spring Update
Archival research is at the heart of the ‘Piston, Pen and Press’ project. Since we began our work almost two-and-a-half…
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 primary schools of North Lanarkshire. From Abronhill and Stepps, to…Continue Reading →
A Daurk Maiter
Guest post in Scots and English by Martin Travers, playwright Wirkin oan ma new play A Daurk Maiter haes buin…