Edinburgh is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley book Edinburgh is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley at the railway station named after the ...

SOON after Sir Walter Scott’s debut novel was published, 200 years ago, it became a worldwide classic. Allan Massie explains why it is so important for Scots to read – or re-read it – as the ...

In July 1814, no one knew whose words they were reading exactly, but they read “Waverley” in such volume that the initial printing of 1,000 copies sold out in two days. Set during the Jacobite ...

Earlier this month the WSWS published an article marking two hundred years since the publication of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley in July 1814, generally considered to be the first historical novel.

When it comes to making life-changing decisions, Bellingham writer Laura Kalpakian resorts to the basics. For example, when it came to finding a place to live after school, she had one simple ...

Alison has received grants from the AHRC, Carnegie Trust for Scotland and from a private donation. This week sees the 200-year anniversary of the publication of Walter Scott’s first novel Waverley.

Thousands of people who pass through the capital's main railway station every day may not be aware of its historic link to Sir Walter Scott. But people getting on and off trains will have no excuse ...