Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century
An AHRC-funded Project to produce a multi-volume edition of the Works of Robert Burns
Today I would like to focus on an 1884 etching entitled ‘The Cottar’s Saturday Night’ (item GLAHA 20955). This genre scene is William Strang’s rendition of Robert Burns’ 1785-’86 poem, which bears the same...
An interview about researching Robert Burns at the John W. Kluge Centre in The Library of Congress. Read the full transcript here.
1996 marked an important anniversary for all Burnsians, as it was the bicentenary of the Bard’s death. It is imaginable that a number of special commemorative events and initiatives took place that year. That...
After a long hiatus from blogging about Burns-related items in the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow, here I am again! This time, with a lovely little undated nineteenth-century jug dedicated to Tam...
Hello! You will probably be aware that tomorrow is the Calcutta Cup rugby match between Scotland and England and there is a bit of fidgin’ going on amongst the ranks here in Scotland. Now...
Well, Burns night has passed for another year and we are recovering at the Centre for Burns Studies, so it is time to get back to work. Our conference went really well and there...
As this is my first blog-post of the year…happy 2014 to everyone! Things have been very busy here at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, with the long build-up to the annual Burns Conference...
As I was searching through 19th Century American newspapers and periodicals at the Library of Congress for Burns material, I came across an interesting transcription of a speech by Henry Ward Beecher in...
With Burns Night fast approaching I thought it high time to have a good Scots word as the Burns Word of the Week. And you have no doubt heard the skirl of the bagpipes...
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a good Hogmanay! It is the start of a new year and a point in time when we all need a bit of inspiration, whether it’s...
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