Loyalty Or Liberty: Scottish Writers And The Problem Of Power

Scottish journalist and writer, Neal Ascherson’s lecture examines the attitudes of Scottish writers in recent centuries to power - from royal power down to the power exercised by chiefs, landowners, and Big Men in small towns. How has the notion of loyalty affected Highland and Island writers? Has the power of weather and sea encouraged fatalism. After the lecture there will be a Q&A followed by the launch of the 2016-17 Neil Gunn Writing Competition.