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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Greetings! I’m Vivien Williams, and I joined the team on the 1st October as a Research Assistant. I focus mainly on the musical side of the project, so for instance I’ve been dealing with...
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