Overview for 'scotland'

Title:
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect.
Creator:
Robert Burns
Date:
18th Century
Institution:
National Library of Scotland
Country:
United Kingdom
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 4 September 2018 Anette Hagan
The Rise of Literacy: contemporary relevance of libraries and literacy
Scotland
We spoke to Dr Anette Hagan, Rare Books Curator (for early printed collections to 1700) from the National Library of Scotland about what makes libraries still relevant in a contemporary society, their value for the community, and why literacy is still important today.
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Title:
A detail of St Margaret in The Blackadder Prayerbook
Creator:
Elizabeth MacDonald
Date:
15th century
Country:
United Kingdom
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 7 June 2018 Moray Teale
From the earliest Scots Gaelic to Dutch children’s books - how we’re telling the story of literacy in Europe
scotland
The partners behind the Rise of Literacy project talk texts and give us a glimpse into how they’ll use written material from across the centuries to showcase the history of literacy in Europe.
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