Valentina Bold
I work freelance in Scottish culture heritage: literature, song. I write, research, edit, develop and present events, combining this with working half time as Heritage Policy & Projects Officer for the Crichton Trust, Dumfries. My current portfolio includes being editor of the 'Review of Scottish Culture'; Series Editor for Peter Lang's series Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland; Convenor of the Scots Language Centre and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Recent consultancies have included developing heritage tours for the Theatre Royal, Dumfries, Scotland's oldest working theatre; a feasibility study relating to a UNESCO bid in development; research for Food Heritage Scotland, exploring Scotland's food traditions through first-hand accounts.
Further to my successful thirty year academic career, I often guest lecture for universities, and am external examiner in Cultural Heritage for Heriot-Watt University. I provided consultancy for the University of Stirling, as part of 'James Hogg 250', a literary anniversary project running 2020-21 supported by the University of Stirling, Library of Congress, Scottish Government USA and National Library of Scotland.
Past freelance projects include working with women in Winchburgh, in an HLF-funded project, to deliver a book 'Kitchen Conversations: the story of Winchburgh as told by its women'. I co-curated an exhibition which ran June - Dec 2018, 'Growing up with Books', at Edinburgh's Museum of Childhood, through SELCIE (Scottish Early Literature for Children Research Network, which I co-founded with Dr Sarah Dunnigan), which ran a conference in November. It is funded by the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh City Council. In 2017 I co-curated an exhibition at Dumfries and Annan Museums: Swords in the Stories, which opened in April and closed in the first week in September. I am grateful to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for funding my research on this topic. The exhibition was funded by the Festival of Museums, and I delivered two lectures for the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
My current research projects includes a new literary biography, supported by the Society of Authors' funding. I am also completing a new edition of James Hogg's 'The Brownie of Bodsbeck and other Tales', which uses Hogg's knowledge, from oral and print sources, of the Covenanting period.
My books include 'Gateway to the Modern: Resituating J.M.Barrie' (2014) with Andrew Nash, 'Robert Burns' Merry Muses' (2009) and 'James Hogg: A Bard of Nature's Making' (2007). I have published well over 100 articles and reviews in peer-reviewed journals, print and digital media including a co-written CD-rom combining field recordings (audio and video), archival resources, photographs and artwork: 'Northern Folk'.
For further information, see my website: valentinabold.org
Recent consultancies have included developing heritage tours for the Theatre Royal, Dumfries, Scotland's oldest working theatre; a feasibility study relating to a UNESCO bid in development; research for Food Heritage Scotland, exploring Scotland's food traditions through first-hand accounts.
Further to my successful thirty year academic career, I often guest lecture for universities, and am external examiner in Cultural Heritage for Heriot-Watt University. I provided consultancy for the University of Stirling, as part of 'James Hogg 250', a literary anniversary project running 2020-21 supported by the University of Stirling, Library of Congress, Scottish Government USA and National Library of Scotland.
Past freelance projects include working with women in Winchburgh, in an HLF-funded project, to deliver a book 'Kitchen Conversations: the story of Winchburgh as told by its women'. I co-curated an exhibition which ran June - Dec 2018, 'Growing up with Books', at Edinburgh's Museum of Childhood, through SELCIE (Scottish Early Literature for Children Research Network, which I co-founded with Dr Sarah Dunnigan), which ran a conference in November. It is funded by the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh City Council. In 2017 I co-curated an exhibition at Dumfries and Annan Museums: Swords in the Stories, which opened in April and closed in the first week in September. I am grateful to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for funding my research on this topic. The exhibition was funded by the Festival of Museums, and I delivered two lectures for the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
My current research projects includes a new literary biography, supported by the Society of Authors' funding. I am also completing a new edition of James Hogg's 'The Brownie of Bodsbeck and other Tales', which uses Hogg's knowledge, from oral and print sources, of the Covenanting period.
My books include 'Gateway to the Modern: Resituating J.M.Barrie' (2014) with Andrew Nash, 'Robert Burns' Merry Muses' (2009) and 'James Hogg: A Bard of Nature's Making' (2007). I have published well over 100 articles and reviews in peer-reviewed journals, print and digital media including a co-written CD-rom combining field recordings (audio and video), archival resources, photographs and artwork: 'Northern Folk'.
For further information, see my website: valentinabold.org
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More than 60 people, including writers of colour living and working in Scotland, and publishers, agents, teachers, librarians and industry professionals, joined us at Scottish Storytelling Centre on Tuesday 18 June to hear more about the writers’ work and why children from all backgrounds need to see each other in the books they read.
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More than 60 people, including writers of colour living and working in Scotland, and publishers, agents, teachers, librarians and industry professionals, joined us at Scottish Storytelling Centre on Tuesday 18 June to hear more about the writers’ work and why children from all backgrounds need to see each other in the books they read.
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The printed version comes with an erratum slip:
Page 3, line 3: For 'fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries' substitute 'sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries'.
- Adrian Hunter is senior lecturer in English studies at the University of Stirling, in Scotland. His edition of James Hogg's "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" is widely adopted on North American university courses. He is currently preparing a collection of Hogg's contributions to magazines and newspapers across the Atlantic world, to be published in 2020.
- Valentina Bold is a leading expert on Scottish literature, stories and song. She is currently undertaking consultancy work for the University of Stirling, as part of "James Hogg 250," a year-long literary anniversary projected for 2020. Her groundbreaking book, "James Hogg: A Bard of Nature's Making" (2007) was the first critical study of the Ettrick Shepherd's poetry.
- Billy Kay was born in Galston, Ayrshire in 1951, and educated at Galston High School, Kilmarnock Academy and Edinburgh University. His company, Odyssey Productions, produces documentaries on Scottish cultural history for BBC Radio Scotland. He is a passionate advocate of the Scots language and author of the classic work "Scots: The Mither Tongue."
- Sheena Wellington, one of Scotland's leading traditional singers, was born in Dundee into a family of singers who gave her many of the songs which she sings today. She sang "A Man's a Man for 'a That" at the opening ceremony of the first Scottish Parliament in 300 years in 1999.
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