Bella Caledonia – independence – self-determination – autonomy
Bella Caledonia: An Anthology of Writing from 2007 – 2021. Curated by Mike Small, this anthology is a flavour of Bella’s output over these 14 years ― the editor’s pick.
Bella Themes for 2024
Jan 2, 2024 · This requires new types of media, new types of thinking and new types of action beyond a) the relentless loop of ‘debating’ climate change b) the endless engagement with tired broken processes (“COP56 has promised a breakthrough”) c) looking to new forms of direct action and building methods of resilience here in Scotland.
The Road to Justice – Bella Caledonia
11 hours ago · This is the time of the shortest days and the darkest nights. The stars in the Caithness sky shine brighter now. The universe looks even more infinite. Our insignificance is compensated by the endless swirling beauty which is the harmony and light of the cosmos. December is always a good time to ...
Backing Bella 2024 - Bella Caledonia
Apr 16, 2024 · Yesterday we laid out some of our themes for the year ahead (Spring 2024: Bella re-Boot) – today we are launching a crowdfund to try and gather some resources to pay for, specifically, freelance writers.As we say here: “We have no big-backers, remain ad-free and don’t hide behind a paywall.
All articles - Bella Caledonia
We don’t take any advertising, we don’t hide behind a pay wall and we don’t keep harassing you for crowd-funding. We’re entirely dependent on our readers to support us.
Best Music of 2024 – Bella Caledonia
15 hours ago · Music writer Grant McPhee offers his best albums, singles and books of the year. ALBUMS S nowgoose . Artist: Snowgoose Album: Descendent Label: Violette Records An album reminiscent of Trees or any of those beautifully produced but very expensive early 70’s Vertigo Swirl albums, late 60s West-Coast studio pop bands (think Gary Usher, Roger Nichols and the Small Circle of Friends etc); all ...
Early Days, Still – Bella Caledonia
Nov 8, 2024 · Written looking back at the tenth anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum, November 2024. The last few months have simplified and revealed some of the deeper questions at play ten years ago, when we had the chance to break-up the British state and declare independence.
Magazine - Bella Caledonia
Issue 1 – March 2017 Features: Joanna Blythman, Sara Shaarawi, Adam Ramsay and Gordon Guthrie.. Gordon Guthrie on ‘After Brexit’. This is an extract from his new book Winning The Second Independence Referendum – a manifesto for Scotland and the EU after Brexit. Gordon Guthrie argues that the SNP must simply ‘remain firm whilst the UK shakes itself to pieces, a island of stability in ...
Alasdair Gray’s Bella Caledonia
Dec 30, 2019 · In Gray’s story Bella is a metaphor for a nation. As Kirsten Sterling tells us in (“Scotland Deformed?”“The label “Bella Caledonia” below the portrait of the main character on p. 45 of Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things (1992) suggests that Gray wants us to read the character Bella Baxter as a female personification of the Scottish nation, …
Bella Caledonia: An Anthology of Writing from 2007 – 2021
This is a book celebrating fourteen years of publishing and collaborations. We have taken the idea of ‘self-determination’ and began to ask what would that mean for us as individuals, communities, towns and cities, not just as a nation?