Summer term Historical Fiction live writing workshops

Edinburgh

Trinity House of Leith

Suffolk

Sutton Hoo Ships Company, Woodbridge

Bangor, Gwynedd

Penrhyn Castle

Cornwall

Trerice Manor

Online Programme 29/06/25 – 27/07/25

Imagining History UK delivers live and online discovery-based workshops to young creative writers and historical thinkers. In celebration of our 10^th year since inception we are offering 5 workshops to young writers in Edinburgh.

The aim of our workshop is to call upon history to support, inspire and focus young writers on the goal of bringing together creative writing and creative thinking. Our workshops are delivered in collaboration with historical sites across the UK, managed amongst others by Historic Scotland and the National Trust in England and Wales

This year we are honoured to be in collaboration with the High Kirk of St Giles in Edinburgh on the occasion of their 900th Anniversary, and with the National Museum of Scotland. We are excited to mark long-standing relationships with Trinity House of Leith in Edinburgh, Sutton Hoo in Suffolk and Trerice Manor in Cornwall. These working relationships withstood the worst that the pandemic could throw at us.

Our long-standing schools relationships have also held true – Firrhill High School in Edinburgh, Farlingaye in Woodbridge,

IHUK is advised by Dr Duna Gusejnova, Associate Professor in International History at LSE, University of London, as well as by the many teachers of English and History that we have worked with over the years.

Writing of Historical Fiction enhances skills of selective research, understanding historical events, speculation based on fact-checking, understanding of the consequences of action, the taking of character-based perspective and approaching an understanding of the long view of the current world.

Imagining History UK is the education/outreach arm of The Young Walter Scott Prize, also in its 10^th year. The prize was founded by the Duchess of Buccleuch to exist under the wing of Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Past winners of YWSP have gone to be named BBC Young Writer and to win or be shortlisted for the ArtUK.org Write on Art Award and the Wilbur and Nico Smith Foundation).