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Investigating Irish and Scottish Women Writers of Children’s Literature, c. 1750-1940

A one-day symposium on Irish and Scottish women writers of children’s literature between 1750 and 1940.

SWINC Autumn Round-Up

Join us for the Annual SWINC Research Seminar. Wednesday 15 October 2025 Teaching Room 02, Old

Nature Nurture: Edinburgh’s Childgarden Heritage, Cultures of Care, and Scottish Women’s Writing

This free, half-day symposium grows out of the ‘Nurture through Nature with Children’s Books’ exhibition, created

The Sociability of Scottish Women Writers, c. 1782-1854

Celebrating 200 years of Susan Ferrier’s The Inheritance (1824) Symposium Schedule A Joint Event organised by Walter Scott

The Bannatyne Manuscript and its legacy

A symposium Edinburgh, late 1568: lockdown. Stuck at home for three months because of the Plague,

Typographical Antiquities

SWINC is delighted to welcome to Edinburgh Deidre Lynch of Harvard University, one of the world’s

SWINC Talk by Dr Richard Barlow

You are warmly invited to join us for our first SWINC talk of 2023! Dr Richard

SWINC Autumn Workshop ’22

Join us for our autumn roundup of work presented at conferences over the summer: 12th October

Scotland’s Coastal Romanticisms

5 February 2022: Co-hosted with IASH, this one-day workshop seeks to expand our understanding of the coastal

Scott’s Ghost-seeing

14 May 2021: Professor Ian Duncan will present this SWINC lecture to inaugurate our celebration of