Sadly, this is the last issue of History Scotland, but I’m very pleased to have an article published there. I have really enjoyed writing this, and I think my idea of comparing two very different Scottish singers has actually come together rather well. I wanted to write about Robert Wilson, but I didn’t want to go over the same ground that has already been covered. I also wanted to write about Flora Woodman – but would anyone remember her? Then came the inspiration: what if I wrote about them both, two almost contemporary but very different celebrities, and then I could compare them. This hadn’t been done before! And it worked – the piece almost wrote itself.
Karen E McAulay, ‘The ‘Scottish Soprano’ and the ‘Voice of Scotland’: the Importance of Nationality to Flora Woodman and Robert Wilson’, History Scotland Vol.25 no.1 (Spring 2025), 74-81
If your public library has e-magazines, you’ll be able to read it online. Glasgow Life certainly has it!
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 