{"id":12790,"date":"2019-03-16T12:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T12:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=12790"},"modified":"2019-03-19T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:56:27","slug":"hugh-macdiarmids-brownsbank-cottage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/hugh-macdiarmids-brownsbank-cottage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh MacDiarmid\u2019s Brownsbank Cottage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh MacDiarmid (born Christopher Murray Grieve) 1892 &#8211; 1978 is acknowledged to have been Scotland\u2019s greatest poet of the twentieth century, and a Modernist writer of international significance. &nbsp;His work continues to permeate and shape Scottish identity in our time. &nbsp;From 1952 until his death in 1978 he lived at Brownsbank Cottage just to the east of the town of Biggar, South Lanarkshire. &nbsp;His wife Valda lived on there until her death in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1990s Biggar Museum Trust took over the cottage and conserved the contents exactly as when Hugh MacDiarmid last laid down his pen. &nbsp;Until 2012 Brownsbank was home to writers in residence (see <strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdiarmidsbrownsbank.org.uk\/brownsbankfellowshipwriters.html\">Brownsbank Writers<\/a><\/u><\/strong> page.)<\/p>\n<p>In 2015 our charity MacDiarmid\u2019s Brownsbank was registered and we took ownership of the cottage and its contents in 2016. &nbsp;Our aims are fourfold: to restore and upgrade the cottage as well as to conserve the contents. &nbsp;This is now urgently required (see <strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdiarmidsbrownsbank.org.uk\/donate.html\">Donate\/Get Involved<\/a><\/u><\/strong> page.) &nbsp;Secondly we seek to promote the works of Hugh MacDiarmid as widely as possible both nationally and internationally. &nbsp;Thirdly we intend to re-establish the Brownsbank Writing Fellowship for writers in residence to work from the cottage. &nbsp;Fourthly we aim to generate educational and community creative involvement as well as promoting literary tourism. (See <strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdiarmidsbrownsbank.org.uk\/poetryboard.html\">Poetry Board<\/a><\/u><\/strong> page.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdiarmidsbrownsbank.org.uk\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.macdiarmidsbrownsbank.org.uk\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh MacDiarmid (born Christopher Murray Grieve) 1892 &#8211; 1978 is acknowledged to have been Scotland\u2019s greatest poet of the twentieth century, and a Modernist writer of international significance. &nbsp;His work continues to permeate and shape Scottish identity in our time. &nbsp;From 1952 until his death in 1978 he lived at Brownsbank Cottage just to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-newsletter","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"simon","author_link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/author\/simon\/"},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcv15g-3ki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12791,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions\/12791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}