These essays demonstrate some of the research that has already been undertaken in the area of Scottish political poetry, and suggest what scholarship might be pursued in the future. They address a range of themes and each essay can be downloaded below, in pdf format:

Duncan Hotchkiss (University of Stirling): The Cultural Construction of Scotland Beyond Scott-land: rediscovering voices in the Gardyne collection of Scottish poetry, 1815-1832

Sheila Kidd (University of Glasgow): Electioneering in Gaelic in Perthshire

Catriona M. M. Macdonald (University of Glasgow): ‘Her muse has many throats’: Paisley, politics and poetry

Kirstie Blair (University of Strathclyde): The People’s William and the People’s Poets: William Gladstone and the Midlothian Campaign

Mark Nixon: Banner and Placard Poetry

Mark Nixon: Printers, the Press, and the Poetry of Reform in 1884

Michael Shaw (University of Kent): The Suffragettes and Robert Burns

Gerard Carruthers (University of Glasgow): Revisiting Radical Renfrew and the Anthologising of Scotland’s Regions