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Dr Gerard McKeever – Scotch Novels

Recorded on 4 September 2025 at the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at the University of Edinburgh, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels”.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvrXYw1Sus

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The Battle of Waterloo was fought #OTD, 18 June, 1815. Walter Scott visited the battlefield shortly after; his 1816 book PAUL’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK contains one of the earliest accounts of the aftermath, & is an important early example of war journalism

https://theconversation.com/walter-scott-war-journalism-from-the-waterloo-battlefield-43304

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