To the Lighthouses!

A Celebration of Scott’s journey round Scotland and his manuscript’s journey home to Abbotsford

May 21th 2026 2.00-5.00

50 George Square, room G.01

All welcome, but please email penny.fielding@ed.ac.uk or r.p.irvine@ed.ac.uk  to reserve a place.

Schedule

2.00     Welcome and a showing of Walter Scott: His Journey to Orkney and Shetland

2.20     Matt Thompson:  How the MS came to Abbotsford

2.40     Hilary Clydesdale: ‘Reading Between the Lines: Interpreting Walter Scott’s Lighthouse Yacht Journal and the Poetics of Entry-Writing

Ainsley McIntosh:  ‘A Light in the Dark’: Navigating the Manuscript of Walter Scott’s Lighthouse Yacht Journal’

3.30     Tea and coffee

3.50      Anna Pilz: ‘The Afterlives of Scott’s Lighthouse Journey’

Alison Lumsden: ‘Plundering the Lighthouse Tour for The Pirate’.

Bob Irvine: ‘The Lord of the Isles, war and population’.

5.00     Drinks