Böcker av Margaret Bennett

'Up the Glen and Doon the Village: Strathearn Oral History & Folklore' by Folklorist Margaret Bennett and Artist Les McConnell.With the announcement of 'Lockdown' in March 2020, all notions of 'normal life' were shattered, affecting everyone nationwide. Among rural folk in Highland Perthshire, where fireside visits were a way of life, suddenly it all changed: no visiting, not even a wee ceilidh by the fire.This book records a 'pandemic project' that was devised so that folk in the glens and villages of Strathearn could still enjoy sharing stories, information, news and laughter without breaking 'lockdown' rules. Through these ordinary conversations we meet some extraordinary people; discover part of Scotland's history; learn about traditions that sustained a way of life, and listen to stories that might otherwise be forgotten."In the heart of Scotland, in the grip of a pandemic, Margaret Bennett created a virtual hearthside to counter isolation and depression. This wonderful book is the result. It is a unique record of rural life, a distillation of shared humanity, and a vivid demonstration of how stories and memories can leap across the generations to connect past and present. If you put Margaret Bennett in solitary confinement, somehow she would still start up a ceilidh!".Donald Smith, Director, Scottish International Storytelling Festival.

Dundee Street Songs, Rhymes and Games: The voices of these school children captured the vitality of the local dialect, the spontaneity of their language-use outside the classroom. (Audio links included in the notes).

Life in the glens and villages of Perthshire is viewed through the eyes of shepherds, farmers, crofters, estate workers, housewives, gardeners, professionals, trades-people and children. They all share reminiscences, stories, games, sayings and rhymes in Scots and Gaelic.

This book has grown out of an oral history project, 'The End of the Shift', which aims to record the working practices and conditions of skilled workers in Scotland's past industries

Nell Hannah, in conversation with folklorist Margaret Bennett and long-time friend and fellow-singer, Doris Rougvie, Nell shares a life-time of reminiscences and songs. In recalling the hey-day of an industry that shut down in the 1980s, she constructs an oral history of life in war-time Perthshire. Then, following life's paths with its twists.

BORNE ON THE CARRYING STREAM -THE LEGACY OF HAMISH HENDERSON Eighteen essays engaging with aspects of Hamish Henderson's remarkable contribution to contemporary Scott ish culture-- from song-writing and song-collecting to poetry and politics.