Robert Burns
Charity unveils plan to save barn where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns Ellisland Trust proposes to turn Ellisland Farm in Dumfries and Galloway into visitor attraction
Jessica Murray
27, Feb, 2023 @12:01 AM
The secret of happy home working? A good local pub | Letters
Letters: A pint and a laugh | Sir Harry Lauder | Lord Rockingham’s XI | Pitney v Pitney | Turkey and Grenfell | British Library
14, Feb, 2023 @5:06 PM
Rare Robert Burns book found in a barber shop goes on display
The first edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is now on display in Fife, with 50 pages missing due to being torn out and used to clean razors
Sarah Shaffi
03, Jan, 2023 @11:11 AM
Poem of the week: Sonnet on Reading Burns’ To a Mountain Daisy by Helen Maria Williams
A fierce defence of his battles with ‘adverse fortune’ suggests Robert Burns was invigorated by the confrontation
Carol Rumens
15, Aug, 2022 @9:00 AM
Burn; Ballet Freedom review – Alan Cumming gives it a whirl as Robert Burns
The actor makes his dance debut in a visually stunning yet curiously empty life of the poet. But every move counts in the Freedom Ballet of Ukraine’s glorious dark erotica
Sarah Crompton
14, Aug, 2022 @8:00 AM
Alan Cumming: ‘You’d be shocked by the messages Miriam Margolyes and I leave each other!’
As he brings his one-man show about ‘rockstar’ poet Robert Burns to the Edinburgh festival, the star talks about desire, debauchery and dancing in his 50s
Lyndsey Winship
03, Aug, 2022 @9:00 AM
Alan Cumming to play Robert Burns in solo dance-theatre show
Actor aims to tell the Scottish poet’s story ‘using my whole body’ in a production at the 75th Edinburgh international festival in August
Chris Wiegand
25, Jan, 2022 @3:06 PM
Robert Burns letters reveal poet was advised not to write in Scots
Burns told use of Scots language would alienate London readers in letter that forms part of University of Glasgow project
Caroline Davies
17, Jan, 2022 @6:01 AM
Rescued library of literary treasures evokes closeness to authors
Analysis: Honresfield library brings Brontës, Austen and others to life, as characters leap from handwritten pages
Charlotte Higgins Chief culture writer
16, Dec, 2021 @5:04 PM
Lost library of literary treasures saved for UK after charity raises £15m
The Honresfield library, including manuscripts by the Brontës, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, had been at risk of falling into private hands
Alison Flood
16, Dec, 2021 @1:07 PM
UK libraries and museums unite to save ‘astonishing’ lost library from private buyers
Friends of the National Libraries launch ‘once in a generation’ effort to raise £15m to buy the Honresfield library, packed with works by Brontë sisters, Jane Austen and Walter Scott
Alison Flood
17, Jun, 2021 @9:00 AM
Burns Night goes virtual: 'It might be even bigger this year'
Thousands join events in Scotland and far afield, and post-a-haggis service is in high demand
Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent
24, Jan, 2021 @3:00 PM
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