Retracing Burns’s 1787 Highland Tour: Day Two
Day 2 – Today took us from the Kenmore Hotel to Killiecrankie, Blair Castle, the Falls of Foyers and the Whitebridge Hotel, with our itinerary formed around Burns’s entry from the 31st August 1787:...
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Retracing Burns’s 1787 Highland Tour: Day One
Today brought us to Bannockburn, Stirling, Dunblane, Ossian’s Grave, Taymouth Castle and Kenmore. On 26th August 1787, Burns wrote to Robert Muir from Stirling: “just now from Stirling Castle I have seen the setting-sun...
Retracing Burns’s Highland Tour of 1787
On 25th August 1787 Robert Burns and William Nicol, a Latin master at Edinburgh High School, embarked on a 22-day Highland Tour that covered nearly 600 miles through the central Highlands and as...
Nigel Leask speaks about Burns’s Prose: New iTunes-U Podcast
The Centre for Robert Burns Studies has recently uploaded a selection of papers from the ‘Robert Burns: At Home and Abroad’ conference to the iTunes-U website. Among these is a paper delivered by Professor...
Burns Podcasts on iTunes-U
To mark St Andrews day, the Centre for Robert Burns Studies launched a series of recordings from the ‘Kilmarnock’ Edition Symposium held in October 2012. These are now available on the University of Glasgow’s...
Seeking information…
Can anyone help me trace information on either a Mr George Shirley of Dumfries, or a Mrs Munro of Glasgow, both of whom are mentioned in the Burns Chronicle of 1939? We are told...
Who is the ghostly ‘WR’ in the First Commonplace book?
Who was the ‘WR’ who wrote annotations in Burns’s first Commonplace Book, annotations addressed directly to the poet? Clearly not to be confused with the annotation of later commentators like Syme, Currie and Roscoe,...
Welcome to the ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century’ Blog
As part of the major AHRC-funded project, the ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century’ editorial team have been considering new ways of engaging the worldwide community of Burns scholars and enthusiasts in the...
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