Borders Book Festival 2025 – A Joy-Filled weekend in Melrose
18 Jun '25
Birlinn authors had a wonderful time this weekend at Borders Book Festival in Melrose. The sun shone, the rains came – nobody seemed to care. The...
Rosemary Goring
2025 Festival Season well under way
24 Apr '25
Alistair Moffat from the Borders Book Festival launched this year’s programme at Marmions Place on the Wynd in Melrose this week. Events to...
A HEARTY welcome to St Andrew’s Book Festival, London
06 Dec '24
There’s a new kid on the block, or at least on the very busy calendar of book festivals taking place annually across the UK. The inaugural St...
The Palace of Holyroodhouse
14 Sep '22
An extract from Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary Queen of Scots by Rosemary Goring A great many of the thousands lining the Royal Mile in...
Notes from the Basement, 14 September 2022
14 Sep '22
As we continue in this quiet, reflective period we are all – as individuals – starting to take in the enormity of change across the board that is...
2022 Previews: History and Politics
28 Jan '22
This year, Birlinn’s history and politics books tackle the most thorny topics of our time including Scottish Independence and China’s...
The Lady Tram Driver Has Arrived: Women’s History Month V
29 Mar '21
In 1915, Glasgow was the first city in Britain to hire female tram drivers, partly as a result of the deficit of male workers during the war. This...
After Flodden: Women’s History Month IV
23 Mar '21
This week, in our series of Women’s History Month extracts from Rosemary Goring’s Scotland: Her Story, we encounter an instance of women...
Convent Espionage: Women’s History Month III
15 Mar '21
Our third instalment of extracts for Women’s History Month is a double decker: early-modern prioresses and the very modern Muriel Spark. The...
Women’s History Month – Scotland: Her Story, Part II
08 Mar '21
In our second extract from Rosemary Goring’s essential anthology, Scotland: Her Story, we present an interview with the only Scottish...
March is Women’s History Month: ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ by Janice Galloway from Scotland: Her Story
02 Mar '21
March is Women’s History Month, with International Women’s Day taking place on 8th March. Rosemary Goring’s anthology, Scotland:...
2021 Preview: History and Current Affairs
22 Jan '21
From books exploring the interwoven history of tea and Scotland to the rise of China’s surveillance state, we have a range of brilliantly...
