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…
‘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 years ago, members of the project team have travelled across…Continue Reading →
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 →
Mutual Improvement in the Borders
These past two weeks conducting research in the libraries and archives in the Borders have been really exciting. In addition…