Cecilia Charlton - Research

'The facts of our history – what Edwin Muir called The Story – are there to read and study: the neolithic folk, Picts, Norsemen, Scots, the slow struggle of the people towards independence and prosperity. But it often seems that history is only the forging, out of terrible and kindly fires, of a mask. The mask is undeniably there; it is impressive and reassuring, it flatters us to wear it.

Underneath, the true face dreams on, and The Fable is repeated over and over again.'

— George Mackay Brown, An Orkney Tapestry (1969)

I am currently carrying out SGSAH/AHRC-funded PhD research through the Glasgow School of Art.
Learn more here: https://sgsahresearch.com/portfolio/cecilia-charlton/