View our terms and conditions for use of our web site and our privacy policy. Visit Electric Scotland's Aois Community, our social networking site. Find our contact information and learn more about us. The Home Page of Electric Scotland ES Common Header Bar
This is where you'll find a comprehensive resource on Scottish accommodations. Electric Scotland's Article Service where you can both read articles and post your own. Beth's Newfangled Family Tree is a monthly publication giving genealogy advice as well as what's hapening on the Scottish Scene around the world. This is where you'll find around 300 books on Scottish history that we've published on the site. Our pages where you'll find books and articles about Robert Burns and his work. Gives you some information on the business scene in Scotland. This is where you can view Scottish events around the world and add your own. Learn about the history of Clans and Families of Scotland and the Scots-Irish. The personal site of Alastair McIntyre where he's posted his own mini biography as well as his travel journals. 5 volumes worth of biographies relating to Significant Scots. A weekly newsletter about the political scene in Scotland from the Scots Independent Newspaper. Lots of Scottish recipes along with contributions from our visitors. Play our collection of online games. 6 volume Gazetter on the place names of Scotland. This is our page for trying to give you advice on Genealogy. A FAQ where you go to get answers to frequently asked questions. Information and pictures about Historic places in Scotland such as castles and other properties. Main index page for our very large history section. Children resources including over 800 children's stories and lots of online and offline games. A bit of a catch-all page where you find loads of pages about music, haggis, scots language, culture, religion, humor and lots more. Our nature page where you can explore information on Scottish Wildlife, Plants, Flowers and lots more. Our weekly newsletters archive. Thousands of pictures of Scotland for you to enjoy. Loads of poetry and stories for you to enjoy with many contributions from visitors to our site. Our very own Webcard program which you can use to send online postcard to friends and relatives. Huge resources about the Scots Diaspora around the world and here is where you can find this information. A continually building information resource on the Scots-Irish who emigrated to Ulster and then onto many parts of the world, especially the USA. Create your own family tree with our special software. You can also import and export gedcom files. Our web-based scottish search engine which is a free resource for Scottish companies as well as Scottish organisations around the world. Current Scottish News headlines and links to Scottish news resources. A range of services, both big and small, that we currently offer. Our Tartan pages, giving you access to information on Tartans as well as tartan search engines. Sponsored by House of Tartan. Our travel section where we have loads of suggested tours of Scotland as well as old historic travel books. A wee collection of videos some of which we've produced ourselves. Learn about the last 100 pages we've added to our site which is updated daily.


Click here to get a Printer Friendly Page
Scots Place Names
Scottish Food Overseas
wedding cakes scotland Advertise on all 1000+ pages of the Flag in the Wind
Strathblane Country House
Handmade Gifts

 
Scots Independent

The Flag in the Wind
Features - The Oliver Brown Award
Paul H Scott CMG MA MLitt

 Scottish Flag

Home | About Us | Subscriptions | Archives | SNP | Ad Rates | Features | Adverts | Events | Links

Paul Scott (on left) being presented with the Oliver Brown Award
Paul Scott (on left) being presented with the Oliver Brown Award
by Ken Fee, Editor of the Scots Independent Newspaper, 2000.

On 10 June 2000 the Oliver Brown Award was presented to the distinguished Scottish author, retired
Diplomat, and President of the Saltire Society, Paul H Scott. As well as his many publications, the Award
recognised his vital contribution to Scottish Culture and Life over the past two decades.

Born in 1920, Paul Scott was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh
(1939-41, Wartime MA) MLitt (1987). He served as a major in the Royal artillery from 1941 to 1947 and in
the Control Commission For Germany as a member of Quadripartite Committee in Berlin from 1947 to
1950. His career thereafter was in the Diplomatic Service until he 'retired' in 1980. His postings included
Warsaw, Havanna, Montreal and Milan.

After his return to Edinburgh in 1980 he has served at various times on councils of Saltire Society
(President 1996 - ), National Trust for Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival, Cockburn Society,
Advisory Council for the Arts in Scotland (Convener, 1981-98), Scots Language Society, Association for
Scottish Literary Studies, Scottish Poetry Library, Heritage Society of Scotland, Campaign for a Scottish
Assembly, Constitutional Steering Committee, Campaign for a Scottish Assembly, Constitutional Steering
Committee, Campaign Committee for a National Theatre in Scotland, Andrew Fletcher Society (President
1988-96), Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club (President, 1996), Scottish Centre for Social and Economic
Research (Convener 1990-1995), Scottish National Party (Member of NEC, 1989-97, Vice President,
1992-97, spokesman at various times on education, broadcasting and the arts, Deputy Spokesman on
Europe and International Affairs, 1997-99), Scottish Centre, International PEN (President, 1992-97),
Chairman Award panel for Scottish Book of the Year, 1981-95, Chairman, Save The Portrait Gallery
Campaign, 1993 -, Rector, Dundee University, 1989-1992, President, 64th International PEN Congress,
1997.

Honours:

  • C M G (UK) (1974)

  • Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeicher, Austria (1969)

  • Andrew Fletcher Award for Services to Scotland (1993)

Publications:

  • 1707: The Union of Scotland and England (1979)

  • Walter Scott and Scotland (1981) (Paperback edition, 1994)

  • John Galt (1985)

  • In Bed with an Elephant (1985)

  • The Thinking Nation (1989)

  • Cultural Independence (1989)

  • Towards Independence: Essays on Scotland (1991) (Reprinted 1996)

  • Andrew Fletcher and the Treaty of Union (1992) (Paperback edition, 1994)

  • Defoe in Edinburgh and Other Papers (1995)

  • A Mad God's Dream (1997)

  • Still in Bed with an Elephant (1998)

  • The Boasted Advantages (1999)

Edited:

  • (With A C Davis) The Age of MacDiarmid (1980) (Paperback edition, 1992)

  • Sir Walter Scott's The Letters of Malachi Malagrowther (1981)

  • Andrew Fletcher's United and Separate Parliaments (1982)

  • (With A C Davis) Policy for the Arts: A Selection of AdCAS Papers (1991)

  • Scotland: A Concise Cultural History (1993)

  • (With Daniel Szechi) Scotland's Ruine: Lochart of Carnwath's Memoirs of the Union (1995)

  • (With Ian Gordon) John Galt's The Member and The Radical (1996)

  • Scotland: An Unwon Cause (1997)