Articles categorised as 19th Century

Two hundred years of Scots dictionaries

It is now two hundred years since the Rev John Jamieson (1759-1838) published the first dictionary given over entirely to the Scots language, in 1808. Jamieson was born and brought up in Glasgow...

The Orcadian dialect

The native language of Orkney today is a dialect of Scots, called Orcadian, but it is a dialect significantly shaped by past contact with Norwegian.   The first real study of the dialect was...

Breaking the mould

After the Union with England in 1707, it was the language of that country that increasingly came to be the language of formality and officialdom, in spite of the fact that most people spoke Scots....

Remembering Wee Willie Winkie

On 2 September a new memorial was unveiled on the wall of Tennents’ Brewery, Duke Street, Glasgow, to Scots language writer William Miller (1810-72) and his most famous composition ‘Wee Willie...

New RLS Website Now Live

A new website about the life and work of Robert Louis Stevenson is now live on the internet. With full information about RLS’s life, pictures never before seen by the public and downloadable...

Scots monologues now online

Traditional musician, Nigel Gatherer, has collected a number of Scots monologues on his web site. The Monologue was a popular comic form in the 19th and early 20th century. Many were recorded and...

James Hogg songs

A major research project about the early 19th century Scottish writer James Hogg is culminating in the creation of a growing and valuable online resource. It currently contains articles and talks...

Scots comedy readings on Radio Ulster

For six weeks in July and August BBC Radio Ulster will be broadcasting a series of dramatised readings in the Ulster Scots dialect which were first performed in the nineteenth century as humorous...

Scots language history lecture

We have here a link to an historical academic presentation by Dr Dauvit Horsbroch about the Scots language. Dr Horsbroch uses the Scots language to discuss the early evidence of Scots, it's...

Rab Wilson - Tradition of Scots language

BBC Scotland has produced a range of new Scots language resources. Check them out at the BBC Learning Zone.

Sauchs, Scaurs and Signage

I want them back, the written-over names that gentrifying fashion anglicised, that bland or blind tuition vandalised. I want the stories that the map disclaims. the Brig o Allan, Corntoun, Chuckie...