The Skene Album – An artistic partnership between author and artist TAGS: conservation | High Quality Photography | Illustration | James Skene | Landscape | Scotland | Sir Walter Scott | Skene Album James Skene was a close friend of one of Scotland’s greatest and most influential writers. By profession  he was a lawyer, but he was also a keen amateur artist. Skene …Continue reading →

Bicentenary of Sir Walter Scott’s ‘The Abbot’ TAGS: Corson Collection | Joseph Mallord William Turner | Mary Queen of Scots | Sir Walter Scott This week marks the bicentenary of Sir Walter Scott’s twelfth novel The Abbot, published in Edinburgh on 2 September 1820 and in London two days later. Alone among the Waverley …Continue reading →

The Humble Spider – A Measure of Moral Character in Physical Education TAGS: andrew carnegie | Carnegie Dunfermline Trust | Corson | DCPE | DCPE OSA | Dunfermline | Dunfermline Abbey | Dunfermline College of Physical Education | Dunfermline College of Physical Education Old Students' Association | folklore | Physical Education | Robert the Bruce | Sir Walter Scott | spider | Tales of A Grandfather In this week’s blog post we take a closer look at the Dunfermline College of Physical Education Archives and attempt to join up the dots between the humble spider and …Continue reading →

Ivanhoe in Belgium TAGS: Corson Collection | Sir Walter Scott Last weekend I was in Leuven at the Annual Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE), where I’d been invited to give a paper on translations …Continue reading →