Hamish Henderson: http://calumimaclean.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/when-hamish-henderson-met-calum-maclean.html
For me, he was the polyglot communist who first translated Antonio Gramsci into English. For my singer sister, he was Scotland's great musicologist, the iconic folk song collector who left thousands of recordings now found on Tobar an Dualchais. For my Dad, he was the charismatic founder of Edinburgh University's School of Scottish Studies and its folk society, and the rumoured son of the philandering husband of his great-aunt Kitty, the Red Duchess.
What he is most famous for, though, is probably his verse – said to have been described by EP Thompson as the best WWII poet, and writer of the internationalist and anti-imperialist anthem The Freedom Come All Ye (see below). Or maybe, it's for the bust of him in Edinburgh's famous folk pub, Sandy Bells. Or perhaps it's the fact that he has a good claim to be founder of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the inspiration of the Scottish and British folk revivals.
