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The increased opportunities for girls in secondary education was a major feature of the twentieth century. Unlike the Education Act 1944 in England and Wales, the Education (Scotland) Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 37) was largely a consolidation measure, because universal secondary education had already been in place for over a decade. [5]
The contribution of the religious orders to education in Glasgow during the period, 1847-1918 (2006), on Catholics; Raftery, Deirdre, Jane McDermid, and Gareth Elwyn Jones, "Social Change and Education in Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Historiography on Nineteenth-century Schooling," History of Education, July/Sept 2007, Vol. 36 Issue 4/5, pp 447 ...
Literature in modern Scotland is literature written in Scotland, or by Scottish writers, since the beginning of the twentieth century. It includes literature written in English, Scottish Gaelic and Scots in forms including poetry, novels, drama and the short story. In the early twentieth century there was a new surge of activity in Scottish ...
These highly popular plays saw the social range and size of the audience for theatre expand and helped shape theatre-going practices in Scotland for the rest of the century. [79] Scotland was also the location of two of the most important literary magazines of the era, The Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802 and Blackwood's Magazine, founded in ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century Scottish male writers and Category:20th-century Scottish women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Novelists writing in the Scottish tradition are part of the development of the novel in Scotland. This is a subsidiary list to the List of Scottish writers . This literature-related list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
The 1894 work Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush is the archetypical example: a hugely popular bestseller depicting rural Scottish life. The Kailyard school is a proposed literary movement of Scottish fiction; kailyard works were published and were most popular roughly from 1880–1914.
It is sometimes referred to as the Scottish literary renaissance, although its influence went beyond literature into music, visual arts, and politics (among other fields). The writers and artists of the Scottish Renaissance displayed a profound interest in both modern philosophy and technology, as well as incorporating folk influences , and a ...