@ScotRevBks Madame Scotia – Queen of the Clarsach

Click here for Review of Madame Scotia, Madame Scrap by Helene Witcher Scottish Review of Books Vol 13 Number 1 2018 Published by The Islands Book Trust   Heloise Russell-Ferguson with ‘Harplet’ 1920 Author Helene Witcher will be appearing at Aye Write on 24 March 2018. For further information click here  

No Belles de Jour here

  Scottish Review of Books 13 August 2016 http://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/no-belles-de-jour/ WHILST history may be one of the oldest scholarly disciplines, it has, until more recent times mostly averted its gaze from that other so-called ‘oldest profession’, prostitution, particularly in the Scottish context. However, as Louise Settle’s history of prostitution in Edinburgh and Glasgow in the early twentieth …

Book Review: Sheila Stewart – A Traveller’s Life

Originally posted on GlasgowAnni:
If we were a’ sensible, there would be nae fools Traveller’s Life – The Autobiography of Sheila Stewart Published April 2011 Birlinn £9.99 Maybe this book is not like other people’s biographies.  But it has to be different…because a travellers’ life is different from anyone else’s.’   And so it is.  A…

Sisters! Sisters! – Anni Donaldson

Scottish Review of Books Vol 10 Issue 4 November 2014 Sarah Browne, The Women’s Liberation Movement in Scotland c 1968-c.1979, Manchester University Press Book Review by Anni Donaldson

Book Review: Sheila Stewart – A Traveller’s Life

If we were a’ sensible, there would be nae fools Traveller’s Life – The Autobiography of Sheila Stewart Published April 2011 Birlinn £9.99 Maybe this book is not like other people’s biographies.  But it has to be different…because a travellers’ life is different from anyone else’s.’   And so it is.  A Traveller’s Life by Sheila …