Editing Hawick (section)

== Culture and traditions ==
===Culture===
[[File:Hornshole Statue, Hawick.jpg|thumb|upright|The "Return from Hornshole" statue, erected in 2014 and funded by the Common Riding Committee of the town.]]

The town hosts the annual [[Common Riding]], which combines the annual riding of the boundaries of the town's common land with the commemoration of a victory of local youths over an English raiding party in 1514. In March 2007, this was described by the ''[[Rough Guide]]'' publication ''World Party'' as one of the best parties in the world.<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 March 2007 |title=Guide book praises common riding |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/6441611.stm |url-status=dead |access-date=16 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314194606/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/6441611.stm |archive-date=14 March 2007}}</ref>

People from Hawick call themselves "Teries", after a traditional song which includes the line "[[Teribus ye teri odin]]".

Hawick and surrounding border residents are known to possess a dialect and accent slightly different from broader Scots, being classed as [[Southern Scots]] or Borders Scots.<ref name="BorderScots">{{cite web|url=https://www.scotslanguage.com/Scots_regional_dialects/Borders_Scots| title=Borders Scots |publisher=Scots Language Centre |access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref><ref name="Voices">{{cite web|url=https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/BBC-Voices/021M-C1190X0043XX-1501V0| title=Conversation in Hawick about accent, dialect and attitudes to language.  |publisher=BBC Voices (British Library) |access-date=21 November 2021}}</ref><ref name="TES">{{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=Alan |date=2019 |title=H is for Hawick. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A632221452/AONE?u=tou&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=5e0a4abd |journal=TLS. Times Literary Supplement |volume=July |issue=6069 |pages=17 |access-date=}}</ref> For example, the term a "Hawick Gill" is a large measure of spirits, equivalent to 0.28&nbsp;litre (half a pint).<ref name="Brewers"/>

=== Monuments ===
Hawick High Street has an [[equestrian statue]] at the east end, known as "the Horse", erected in 1914. Drumlanrig's Tower, now a museum, dates largely from the mid-16th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/Places/drumlanrig_tower.htm|title=Drumlanrig's Tower|publisher=The Douglas Archives|access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>

In 2009 another monument the ''Turning of the Bull'' (artist, Angela Hunter, [[Innerleithen]]) was unveiled in Hawick. This monument depicts William Rule turning the wild bull as it was charging King [[Robert the Bruce]], thus saving the king's life and beginning the Scottish [[Clan Turnbull|Clan of Turnbull]]. A poem written by [[John Leyden]] commemorates this historical event. "His arms robust the hardy hunter flung around his bending horns, and upward wrung, with writhing force his neck retorted round, and rolled the panting monster to the ground, crushed, with enormous strength, his bony skull; and courtiers hailed the man who turned the bull."

===Media and film===

Local news and television programmes are provided by [[BBC Scotland]] and [[ITV Border]]. Television signals are received from the [[Selkirk transmitting station|Selkirk]] TV transmitter and the local relay transmitter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Hawick|title=Freeview Light on the Hawick (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=11 December 2023}}</ref> Local radio stations are [[BBC Radio Scotland]] on 93.5&nbsp;FM, [[Radio Borders|Greatest Hits Radio Scottish Borders and North Northumberland]] on 96.8&nbsp;FM and TD9 Radio, an online community based station which broadcast from the town.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://td9radio.online/spotlight/about |title=About Us|website=TD9 Radio|date=22 January 2022 |access-date=11 December 2023}}</ref> The town is served by its own local newspaper, ''The Hawick Paper''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thehawickpaper.co.uk/#:~:text=Owned%20and%20Edited%20Locally%20%7C%20The%20Hawick%20Paper |title=The Hawick Paper|access-date=11 December 2023}}</ref> Other newspapers that cover the town are ''The Border Telegraph'' and ''[[Southern Reporter (newspaper)|Southern Reporter]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/scotland/border-telegraph/|title=Border Telegraph|date=23 November 2013|website=British Papers|accessdate=11 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/scotland/southern-reporter/|title=Southern Reporter|date=21 January 2014|website=British Papers|accessdate=11 December 2023}}</ref>

Hawick is home to Alchemy Film & Arts, and its internationally renowned flagship annual event [[Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival|Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival]]. Investing in film "as a means of generating discussion, strengthening community, and stimulating creative thought",<ref>{{Cite web|last=Disbury|first=Rachael|title=About Alchemy Film & Arts|url=https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/about-alchemy-film-arts/|access-date=2021-04-12|website=Alchemy Film & Arts|language=en-GB|archive-date=12 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412114923/https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/about-alchemy-film-arts/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Alchemy works with artists and communities within Hawick and the Scottish Borders on a year-round basis. In summer 2019, Alchemy launched its award-winning ''Film Town'' project, which "aims to work to the benefit of Hawick and its unique communities by widening accessibility and inclusion for audiences, participants and partners, and by challenging social, physical and communication barriers... while contributing to Hawick's economic regeneration through an investment in its cultural identity".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pattison|first=Michael|title=FILM TOWN|url=https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/film-town/|access-date=2021-04-12|website=Alchemy Film & Arts|language=en-GB}}</ref>

In response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Alchemy delivered the tenth and eleventh editions of its annual film festival as [[Livestreaming|livestream events]] delivered from Hawick, and assisted in helping the town's communities to digitise their own services, including the production of virtual lectures for the town's 164-year-old Hawick Archaeological Society.

=== Sports ===
The town is the home of [[Hawick RFC|Hawick Rugby Football Club]] which was founded in 1873.<ref name="Brewers"/> The town has a senior football team, [[Hawick Royal Albert F.C.|Hawick Royal Albert]], who currently play in the [[East of Scotland Football League]].

The Hawick [[Ba game|baw game]] was once played here by the "uppies" and the "doonies" on the first Monday after the new moon in the month of February.<ref>{{Cite news |title=February 2010 |url=http://www.scottish-wedding-dreams.com/201002.html |access-date=2 August 2018}}</ref> The river of the town formed an important part of the pitch. Although no longer played at Hawick, it is still played at nearby [[Jedburgh]].

===Confectionery===
''Hawick balls'' or ''baws'', also known as Hills Balls<ref>{{Cite book |last=Herdman |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DoEKAQAAMAAJ&q=%22hawick+balls%22 |title=The County of Roxburgh |date=22 November 1992 |publisher=Scottish Academic Press |isbn=9780707307206 |via=Google Books}}</ref> or taffy rock bools,<ref name="auto">{{Cite book |last=Davidson |first=Alan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RL6LAwAAQBAJ&q=%22hawick+balls%22&pg=PA797 |title=The Oxford Companion to Food |date=22 January 2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199677337 |via=Google Books}}</ref> are a peppermint-flavoured boiled sweet that originated in the town.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |date=17 September 2010 |title=Hawick Balls |url=https://food.list.co.uk/article/29506-hawick-balls/ |website=The List}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dictionary of the Scots Language:: SND :: sndns1968 |url=https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sndns1968}}</ref> They are particularly associated with rugby commentator [[Bill McLaren]] who was known to offer them from a bag that he always carried.<ref name="auto" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Reason |first=Mark |date=23 September 2011 |title=Rugby World Cup 2011: Scotland captain Rory Lawson trying to live up to values of his grandfather Bill McLaren |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/scotland/8785073/Rugby-World-Cup-2011-Scotland-captain-Rory-Lawson-trying-to-live-up-to-values-of-his-grandfather-Bill-McLaren.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=25 January 2010 |title=Final farewell for Bill McLaren |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/8474324.stm}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=25 January 2010 |title=Bill McLaren funeral: hundreds celebrate "voice of rugby" |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/7071715/Bill-McLaren-funeral-hundreds-celebrate-voice-of-rugby.html}}</ref> They are now produced in [[Greenock]].<ref name="auto1" />