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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1839, Charlotte Bronte declines Reverend Henry Nussey’s marriage proposal, claiming that he would find her “romantic and eccentric” and not practical enough to be a clergyman’s wife. </p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-march-5-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-march-5-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-march</span><span class="invisible">-5-2026/</span></a></p><p>Books by Charlotte Bronte at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/408" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/408"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/408</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#womenshistory</a></p>

<p>“It is not a romantic Tale that the Reader is here presented with, but a real History. Not the Adventures of a Robinson Crusoe, a Colonel Jack, or a Moll Flanders, but the Actions of the HIGHLAND ROGUE…”</p><p>Rob Roy MacGregor was baptised <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 7 March, 1671. Walter Scott’s novel made the Scottish outlaw internationally famous – &amp; created the model for today’s roguish antiheroes</p><p>@litstudies </p><p>1/5</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/two-centuries-before-marvel-and-star-wars-walter-scotts-rob-roy-was-the-first-modern-anti-hero-89421" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/two-centuries-before-marvel-and-star-wars-walter-scotts-rob-roy-was-the-first-modern-anti-hero-89421"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/two-centur</span><span class="invisible">ies-before-marvel-and-star-wars-walter-scotts-rob-roy-was-the-first-modern-anti-hero-89421</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#historicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/romanticism/" rel="tag">#romanticism</a> <a href="/tags/walterscott/" rel="tag">#WalterScott</a></p>

<p>Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) was baptised <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 19 March. </p><p>George Orwell thought him “Scotland’s best novelist”, “whose outstanding intellectual honesty may have been connected with the fact that he was not an Englishman” (TRIBUNE magazine, 22/9/1944)</p><p>1/5</p><p><a href="https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/smollett/english/e_ts" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="orwell.ru/library/reviews/smollett/english/e_ts"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">orwell.ru/library/reviews/smol</span><span class="invisible">lett/english/e_ts</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/smollett/" rel="tag">#Smollett</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/orwell/" rel="tag">#Orwell</a></p>

<p>“Scottishness is as much myth as it is history, which means that we must guard it carefully, retell it beautifully &amp;, more than anything else, love it wisely”</p><p>John Burnside (1955–2024) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 19 March. His career as an author &amp; poet spanned nearly 40 years</p><p>1/10</p><p><a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/07/in-search-of-a-homeland" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/07/in-search-of-a-homeland"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.newstatesman.com/culture/2</span><span class="invisible">024/07/in-search-of-a-homeland</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#novels</a> <a href="/tags/johnburnside/" rel="tag">#JohnBurnside</a> <a href="/tags/scottishness/" rel="tag">#Scottishness</a> <a href="/tags/scottishidentity/" rel="tag">#ScottishIdentity</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1892, Vita Sackville-West is born. </p><p>&quot;Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life.... She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sac</span><span class="invisible">kville-West</span></a></p><p>Books by Sackville-West at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34850" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34850"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/34850</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>“not only is there no invocation of the free market […Smith] plainly sees that government, not private industry, is the only force capable of effectively ‘erecting and maintaining’ the technically unprofitable but nevertheless indispensable ‘publick works’ and ‘publick institutions’”</p><p>—Adam Smith’s THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was published 250 years ago <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 8 March 1776. Evan Gottlieb examines Smith’s “Invisible Hand”</p><p><a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/invisible-hand-over-fist-on-the-development-and-legacy-of-adam-smiths-famous-phrase/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/invisible-hand-over-fist-on-the-development-and-legacy-of-adam-smiths-famous-phrase/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/0</span><span class="invisible">5/invisible-hand-over-fist-on-the-development-and-legacy-of-adam-smiths-famous-phrase/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#economics</a> <a href="/tags/adamsmith/" rel="tag">#AdamSmith</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as &quot;the girl with the red hair&quot;, was arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem. </p><p>She was later executed, allegedly saying &quot;I shoot better&quot; after the first attempt to shoot her missed.</p><p><a href="/tags/womenshistorymonth/" rel="tag">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/ww2/" rel="tag">#WW2</a> <a href="/tags/dutchhistory/" rel="tag">#DutchHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>My son has birds in his head.</p><p>I know them now. I catch<br>the pitch of their calls, their shrill<br>cacophonies, their chitterings, their coos…</p><p>—“Daedalus”, by Alastair Reid (1926–2014) – born 100 years ago <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 22 March<br>published in WEATHERING, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bookish.community/@canongatebooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>canongatebooks</span></a></span> 1978</p><p>1/4</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a></p>

<p>“Had a fit of the scunners: heart withered up.”</p><p>—Willa Muir (1890–1970) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 13 March, 1890. Her translations of Kafka solidified his reputation in English, &amp; then internationally.</p><p>Prof Michelle Woods looks at Willa Muir – a Shetland translator in Prague</p><p>1/5</p><p><a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/willa-muir-a-shetland-translator-in-prague/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/willa-muir-a-shetland-translator-in-prague/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/1</span><span class="invisible">2/willa-muir-a-shetland-translator-in-prague/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a> <a href="/tags/translation/" rel="tag">#translation</a> <a href="/tags/translator/" rel="tag">#translator</a> <a href="/tags/franzkafka/" rel="tag">#FranzKafka</a> <a href="/tags/shetland/" rel="tag">#Shetland</a> <a href="/tags/prague/" rel="tag">#Prague</a></p>

<p>Happy π Day! And Albert Einstein was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> 147 years ago!</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi</a></p><p>Isaac Newton used infinite series to compute π to 15 digits, later writing &quot;I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations&quot;.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#cite_note-Newton-60" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#cite_note-Newton-60"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#cite_</span><span class="invisible">note-Newton-60</span></a></p><p>&quot;I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.&quot;</p><p>Einstein at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1630</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematicsday/" rel="tag">#mathematicsDay</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1869 writer Algernon Blackwood was born. He &quot;was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Blackwood" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Blackwood"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon</span><span class="invisible">_Blackwood</span></a></p><p>Books by Blackwood at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1370" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1370"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1370</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>When proof of Einstein’s Glaswegian birth<br>First hit the media everything else was dropped…</p><p>—Robert Crawford, “Alba Einstein” – from Selected Poems (Cape, 2005)</p><p>Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 14 March. In Glasgow.</p><p>Listen to Robert Crawford read “Alba Einstein” on The Poetry Archive: </p><p><a href="https://poetryarchive.org/poem/alba-einstein/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="poetryarchive.org/poem/alba-einstein/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">poetryarchive.org/poem/alba-ei</span><span class="invisible">nstein/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/einstein/" rel="tag">#Einstein</a> <a href="/tags/famousscots/" rel="tag">#FamousScots</a> <a href="/tags/glasgow/" rel="tag">#Glasgow</a></p>

<p>Florence Marian McNeill (1885–1973) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 26 March. A notable figure in Scotland’s 20th-century literary renaissance, she wrote on politics, food &amp; folklore – including THE SILVER BOUGH, a 4-volume study of Scottish festivals &amp; folk-belief</p><p>1/4</p><p><a href="https://www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z/florence-marian-mcneill" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z/florence-marian-mcneill"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scottishwomenwritersonthew</span><span class="invisible">eb.net/writers-a-to-z/florence-marian-mcneill</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a> <a href="/tags/folklore/" rel="tag">#folklore</a> <a href="/tags/foodhistory/" rel="tag">#foodhistory</a></p>

<p>“The life &amp; career of the gifted Glaswegian writer Catherine Carswell was marked by such alarming &amp; recurrent notoriety that her present obscurity is baffling”</p><p>—Emma Garman in the Paris Review on the life &amp; work of Catherine Carswell (1879–1946)—born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 27 March</p><p>1/4</p><p><a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/10/feminize-your-canon-catherine-carswell/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/10/feminize-your-canon-catherine-carswell/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theparisreview.org/blog/20</span><span class="invisible">19/06/10/feminize-your-canon-catherine-carswell/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/modernism/" rel="tag">#modernism</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a></p>

<p>I wad ha’e gi’en him my lips tae kiss,<br>Had I been his, had I been his…</p><p>—“Mary’s Song”, by Marion Angus (1865–1946) – born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 27 March<br>published in THE TINKER’S ROAD and Other Verses (1924)</p><p>“She has an authentic voice straight out of the ballad tradition, an eerie shimmer to her best poems”<br>—Kathleen Jamie</p><p><a href="https://digital.nls.uk/works-by-selected-scottish-authors/archive/129188342#?c=0&amp;m=0&amp;s=0&amp;cv=12&amp;xywh=-880%2C-256%2C3153%2C2337" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="digital.nls.uk/works-by-selected-scottish-authors/archive/129188342#?c=0&amp;m=0&amp;s=0&amp;cv=12&amp;xywh=-880%2C-256%2C3153%2C2337"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">digital.nls.uk/works-by-select</span><span class="invisible">ed-scottish-authors/archive/129188342#?c=0&amp;m=0&amp;s=0&amp;cv=12&amp;xywh=-880%2C-256%2C3153%2C2337</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.</p><p>When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to &#x27;take up crocheting&#x27; instead.</p><p>Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistorymonth/" rel="tag">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="/tags/canadianhistory/" rel="tag">#CanadianHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 31 March. An extraordinarily prolific anthropologist, writer &amp; literary critic, he is best remembered today for collecting &amp; editing fairy stories from around the world</p><p>A 🎂 🧵</p><p>1/6</p><p><a href="https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/the-man-of-letters-in-fairyland-andrew-lang/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/the-man-of-letters-in-fairyland-andrew-lang/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">universityofglasgowlibrary.wor</span><span class="invisible">dpress.com/2016/05/20/the-man-of-letters-in-fairyland-andrew-lang/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> <a href="/tags/kidlit/" rel="tag">#kidlit</a> <a href="/tags/childrensliterature/" rel="tag">#childrensliterature</a> <a href="/tags/fairytale/" rel="tag">#fairytale</a> <a href="/tags/andrewlang/" rel="tag">#AndrewLang</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison&#x27;s &#x27;Beloved&#x27; wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.</p><p><a href="/tags/readmorewomen/" rel="tag">#ReadMoreWomen</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008) – author, historian, journalist, screenwriter – was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 2 April, 1925</p><p>“His dedication to strongly researched stories, built firmly on a bedrock of historical fact, but always with an eye to the humour of a situation, was the core of what appealed to me”</p><p>Historical novelist Michael Jecks discusses MacDonald Fraser’s writing for the Royal Literary Fund</p><p>@bookstodon </p><p>1/6</p><p><a href="https://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/not-a-serious-writer/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/not-a-serious-writer/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/not-a-</span><span class="invisible">serious-writer/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#historicalfiction</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral election. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and is sworn in on 16 April. She hires the first black woman to be a school superintendent in the city, and stops the police raiding gay bars.</p><p>Lori Lightfoot was the second woman to hold the post, from 2019 to 2023. She’s the first black woman and the first LGBT+ mayor since the post was created in 1837.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> In 1860, George Eliot’s novel The Mill on the Floss is published by John Blackwood in three volumes. </p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/lit-hub-weekly-march-30-april-3-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/lit-hub-weekly-march-30-april-3-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/lit-hub-weekly-marc</span><span class="invisible">h-30-april-3-2026/</span></a></p><p>&quot;The Mill on the Floss&quot; at PG: </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Mill+on+the+floss" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Mill+on+the+floss"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Mill+on+the+floss</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>“It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself”</p><p>The Declaration of Arbroath – a letter from the Community of the Realm of Scotland to Pope John XXII, asserting Scotland’s independence &amp; supporting Robert I as the rightful king – was signed <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 6 April, 1320</p><p><a href="https://unesco.org.uk/our-sites/memory-of-the-world/the-declaration-of-arbroath" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="unesco.org.uk/our-sites/memory-of-the-world/the-declaration-of-arbroath"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unesco.org.uk/our-sites/memory</span><span class="invisible">-of-the-world/the-declaration-of-arbroath</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/medievalhistory/" rel="tag">#medievalhistory</a> <a href="/tags/14thcentury/" rel="tag">#14thcentury</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1770 English poet William Wordsworth was born.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_</span><span class="invisible">Wordsworth</span></a></p><p>Books by Wordsworth at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2879" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2879"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2879</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>As by barren trackway<br>on a mountain crest<br>with view of scree and corrie,<br>ridge and col,<br>a traveller might pause…</p><p>—“A cairn”, by Gael Turnbull (1928–2004) – born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 7 April<br>from WHILE BREATH PERSIST (The Porcupine’s Quill, 1992)</p><p>1/3</p><p><a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/cairn/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/cairn/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.</span><span class="invisible">uk/poem/cairn/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>