As one literary anniversary closes, another begins. In this event, award-winning writer James Robertson and cultural critic Valentina Bold discuss James Hogg, ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’ (1770 – 1835), and Walter Scott, ‘The Great Unknown’ and ‘The Shirra’ (1771 - 1832). Original, innovative and skilled, they were almost exact contemporaries; Borderers at heart, but from very different backgrounds. This event explores the lives and works of these Scottish writers of international significance, and celebrates their distinctive legacies in poetry and prose, from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner to the Waverley novels.

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Image 'The Celebration of the Birthday of James Hogg' courtesy of National Galleries of Scotland.