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…
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 been very busy adding all the industrial poets and poems…Continue Reading →
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…
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 – as we discussed in a previous blog post –…Continue Reading →
‘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…
A Daurk Maiter
Guest post in Scots and English by Martin Travers, playwright Wirkin oan ma new play A Daurk Maiter haes buin awfu naur tae ma hert an ma ain faimily’s history.…Continue Reading →
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…