Ashley Douglas

Represented by Caro Clarke, Portobello Literary.

Multi-lingual historian, translator and consultant, specialising in LGBT+ history and the Scots language. Writing the biography of Marie Maitland, Scotland’s 16th-Century Sappho.

Research and writing

The Lass and The Quine / Children’s Book

“My Sapphic City” / Chapter in Book

Interview / The Times

Historical Consultant Programme Essay / Katherine: James V

LGBT+ History Additional Learning Resources / Katherine: James V

Time for Inclusive Education / Inclusive Scots Language Poems for Primary Schools

National Galleries Scotland / Marie Maitland: Scotland’s 16th century Sappho

Historic Scotland / Lug-in at Linlithgow

National Galleries Scotland / James’s People Exhibition – Marie Maitland Interpretation

Historic Scotland Magazine / Talking Scots

Language Reach / Minoritised Languages in Translation

Language Reach / Scotland’s linguistic landscape – Scots and Gaelic

Language Reach / Scotland’s linguistic landscape – Scottish Standard English and Scots

Time for Inclusive Education & The Scottish Government / Interpreting Poem 49

Time for Inclusive Education & The Scottish Government / The Story of Poem 49

Somewhere: For Us LGBTQ magazine (issue 4) / ‘Drawing from the Past’: Marie Maitland

Language Reach / The Spirit of Scots

Somewhere: For Us LGBTQ magazine (issue 3) / The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49

National Library of Scotland / The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49

National Library of Scotland / Barbour’s The Brus

Mak Forrit / Scots: an ayebidin kist o Scotland aforesyne

Dig It! Scotland / Burgheid, The Pechts and the Battle o Dun Nechtain

National Library of Scotland / The King James Library, St Andraes

National Library of Scotland / The Psalms frae Hebrew intil Scottis

Open University / Module on Scots Language in Politics

University of St Andrews / Scots, Devolution and Nationalism 1992-2016

University of St Andrews / A historically based linguistic comparison of Modern Scots and Modern German

Translation

Scots / The Itchy Coo Book o Aesop’s Fables

Scots / The Itchy Coo Book o Grimms’ Fairy Tales

Scots / The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales

Scots / Evolution Journal Abstract

Scots / Firefox

Scots / The Declaration of Arbroath

Scots / Dig It! Scotland, The Archaeology of Whisky

Danish / The 2030 NOW Book

Scots / Edinburgh International Book Festival, Letters between Iban Zaldua and James Robertson

Interviews, talks, lectures, podcasts etc.

Keynote Talk / CILIPS: Marie Maitland, Scotland’s 16th-Century Sappho, and why libraries are essential to cherishing queer women’s stories

Lecture / Scottish History Society: Marie Maitland, the Maitland Quarto and the earliest lesbian love poetry since Sappho

Lecture / New College: Voicing Lesbian Love in 16th-Century Scotland, Biblical Imagery in the Poetry of Marie Maitland

Interview / The Student: Reclaiming the past:telling the LGBTQ+ histories that have been kept from us

Talk / Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Marie Maitland, Scotland’s 16th century Sappho

Interview / Hands Up for Trad: International Women’s Day

Talk / Soutar Festival of Words: The Status of Scots

Talk / Scottish Heritage Social Media Group: Applying Scots to Social Media

Interview / The World: Scotland becomes first country to require LGBTQ curriculum in schools

Talk / The British Library: Hidden LGBT+ Histories

Podcast / Katherine: James V: Historical Consultant in Conversation with Playwright Rona Munro, hosted by Brian O’Sullivan

Talk / Porty Pride: Marie Maitland, Scotland’s 16th-Century Sappho

Quote / How Rubric’s Scots Language Translators Made the New Firefox Browser

Talk / Translating Scotland’s Heritage

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