Meet the Authors from the Past at the Playfair Library, Old College, Edinburgh University Palimpsest: Literary Edinburgh invite you to meet ‘Sir Walter Scott’ and ‘Mrs Margaret Oliphant’, prolific writers who featured Edinburgh in their works and so helped to …

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Here is our Sir Walter Scott played by Fergus John McCann giving his views on some topical issues as well as pondering on how he has influenced those who have come after him. A modest man of letters as he …

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Sir Walter Scott made a “surprise” visit to the Edinburgh International Book Festival as a guest of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature. At the “Reading the City” event the author and enthusiast of Scott, James Robertson,  interviewed this great man of …

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