Harvard's first professor of English, the American scholar Francis James Child (1825–96) had previously prepared a collection of English and Scottish ballads, published in 1857–9 ... an essential ...

At the beginning of your Higher year, your teacher will select an appropriate Scottish text from a list prescribed to them by SQA. Class teachers can choose from: six poems by one of the four ...

For small islands, Great Britain and Ireland are home to a wide variety of accents. Some can be difficult to distinguish from ...

Scottish university bosses have hit out after UK ministers capped the number of English students they can enrol. The UK government is to impose "student number controls" to prevent "over ...

Sunset Song, once voted Scotland’s favourite book and beloved by Nicola Sturgeon, has been removed from the Scottish set text list in Higher English ... and to the Gaelic language, we have ...