Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century
An AHRC-funded Project to produce a multi-volume edition of the Works of Robert Burns
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...
We are edging close to December now, but if you’re anything like me you will be getting annoyed at all the shops for talking of Christmas too early. So I shall refrain from surfing the yule...
If you are reading this, we have survived Halloween and all the “ghaists and houlets” are safely gone for another year! The folklore surrounding Halloween did appear to interest Robert Burns, even if only...
Dear readers, it’s been a while since my last blog post, but today I would like to share with you this episode which has made me very happy. I have recently come back from...
It’s getting colder this time of year as Autumn has us firmly in its grasp. There is a noticeable change in the atmosphere, from the great summer we have had, when we venture outdoors....
It is hugely satisfying to see the fine book in its Oxford University Press critical edition garb. Prof Nigel Leask’s volume is the first in our ‘Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns’,...
My volume of the new Oxford Burns edition, Commonplace Books, Tour Journals and Miscellaneous Prose, was officially published on 31st July. I was thrilled to receive my copy on the 10th August 2014, just...
Word of the Week: Sorry The Robert Burns Word of the Week is back! I am very sorry there hasn’t been a Word of the Week recently. The events of PhD life overtook...
I’ve never blogged before, on anything ever: I wouldn’t know what to say. But i’m breaking my web-silence for the Editing Robert Burns for the Twenty First Century project to try and explain a...
I think it’s time for me to write an update about my work here at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies. It’s been over six months since I started working on for the Editing...
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