The Art of Diplomatic Transcription
Work is continuing on our volume of Burns’s songs for George Thomson. As part of this, I’ve recently been focussing on the original texts of the songs as submitted between 1792 and 1796. These...
Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century Blog
An update on progress
It’s been so long since I last wrote a blog post! it’s been a busy time, with lots of work to be done both for my Research Assistant post with ERBC21, and beyond. For...
Thomson and Burns
Hello folks! More to add to my on-going Editor’s blog on the Burns songs for George Thomson! This past couple of weeks have been busy and productive. Lots of new reading on Burns’s songs...
Crowdsourcing Burns – 1
The first instalment of our new ‘Crowdsourcing Burns’ blog features a lovely version of ‘Banks of Cree’ by Finn and Hanne Fahl. Finn and Hanne write that: “We are Danish not Scottish, and we live...
More on Thomson
Hello! I realise that a couple of weeks have passed since my last blog! Work is moving ahead on the Thomson songs for our edition. As I mentioned in my first blog our RAs,...
Exploring Burns’s correspondence with Thomson
It’s almost a month now since I arrived in post as an RA here on the Burns C21 project. This seems an opportune moment to reflect on some of the interesting points that have...
Welcome to the world of Burns and George Thomson
Hello folks, Allow me to introduce myself….I am the editor of vols 4 & 5 of the new Oxford Works of Robert Burns and my work on this edition constitutes the last part of...
‘Love’ Across the Atlantic: Doc Watson, Robert Burns & ‘ A Red Red Rose’
American Folk musician ‘Doc Watson’ was born Arthel Lane Watson on 3rd March 1923 in Deep Gap, North Carolina. As a young boy, he was struck by an illness that restricted the blood...
A little triumph, and a forthcoming Burns event
First and foremost, happy 2015! as ever the first month of the year is especially dedicated to Robert Burns, and we from the ERBC21 team are all buzzing with all sorts of Burns-related activities –...
Some ‘Auld Lang Syne’ Memorabilia
As we approach Hogmanay 2014/15, the ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century’ team have been thinking about the different ways in which ‘Auld Lang Syne’, Burns’s most universally famous song, has been remembered...
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