How Burns Suppers Became a Global Phenomenon
What if the traditional Burns Night could fuse cultures & challenge traditions? Dr Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman from the University of Glasgow reveals how this centuries-old tribute to Scotland’s national poet is transforming around the world
A video of the Robert Burns Mausoleum on the grounds of St Michael's Church on Dumfries taken from the air. https://makertube.net/w/efjDZxv5uUTPmmBksNAraN
The view north-west along the River Doon from the Brig o' Doon in Alloway, Ayrshire, a village best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/alloway/alloway/index.html
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After etching the above poem with his diamond-tipped pen, Robert Burns – possibly sobering up – worried about the possible political fallout. He returned to the inn & broke the window, but was too late: some clype had copied it down & published it.
https://burnsmuseum.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/graffiti-artist/
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Here Stewarts once in triumph reign’d,
And laws for Scotland’s weal ordain’ d;
But now unroof’d their Palace stands,
Their Sceptre’s fall’n to other hands;
Fall’n indeed, and to the Earth
Whence grovelling reptiles take their birth…
—Robert Burns, “Lines etched on a window at Wingate’s Inn, Stirling, 26 August 1787”
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Robert Burns & the How-to of Barrel Gauging
“Alongside the expansion of the state in this period, scientific advances greatly enhanced methods for measuring and taxing goods, and in turn required officials proficient in these complex practices.”
James Fox looks at Robert Burns’s own copy of The Excise Officer’s Pocket Companion
https://howtobook.hypotheses.org/5697
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Last weekend saw 25th January roll around, and that meant once again commemorating the life and works of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, born on this day in 1759. This time last year, only a few weeks into my tenure as a how-to-er, I blogged about haggis, that classic Scottish dish consumed at Burns suppers,… Continue reading Robert Burns and the How-to of Barrel Gauging
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