The Centre for Robert Burns Studies

Would you like to find out more about innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Burns studies? Get your ticket for tomorrow to find out more 👩‍💻

‘Ae Fond Kiss’ is one of Burns’ most famous love songs, arising from his relationship with Agnes McLehose. The pair exchanged passionate letters as ‘Clarinda’ and ‘Sylvander’.

The emotive song is a powerful farewell to McLehose who was moving to the West Indies.

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'My love is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June':
I played it at the station, but
Their piano's no' in tune.
I plinked and plonked the ivories,
And some were slow or mute,
I'll no' be playin' there again, Of that, I ha'e nae doubt.

The Missing Manuscript of ‘A Red, Red, Rose’ Guest blog by Professor Patrick Scott (Hon. Fellow, CRBS) The lockdown these past few months has altered the pace of Burns research, but not stopped it.  Most research has become even more reliant …

#ICYMI you can read more about "The Missing Manuscript of ‘A Red, Red, Rose’" on @glasgowburns.bsky.social's website 👇

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Our Director @paulinemackay.bsky.social will be taking part in ‘ARC Conversations’ next Tuesday! Come along to hear more about innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Burns Studies 👩‍💻

YouTube video by Centre for Robert Burns Studies Craig Sharp's Kilmarnock Edition - then and now

From 2020 – Prof Kirsteen McCue, Prof Nigel Leask, & Dr Craig Lamont discuss the importance of the Kilmarnock edition of POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT for Burns, & the significance of the copy of the volume donated by Craig Sharp to @glasgowburns.bsky.social
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🚨PhD Opportunity 🚨

Our award winning research centre is thrilled to share the news of this exciting funded research project which will focus on Burns and the Environment 🐭🐾🌳

Find out more here:

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Excellent debate on Robert Burns last night in Holyrood and am very thankful to Oliver Mundell for tabling the motion and Minister @jamiehepburn.bsky.social for his response

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A wonderful morning at the #CRBSconference ! We heard about the great environmental work carried out by the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum 🌳🐭 Some new, exciting digital resources were also launched 💻

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Director @paulinemackay.bsky.social will give an update on the exciting research the CRBS has been carrying out since we were awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize.

It’s your last chance to register for our conference👇

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The annual Craig Sharp Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dr Arun Sood this Saturday at our conference.

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University of Glasgow Global Burns 2025: Burns and the Environment Join us online for discussion, laughter and an insight into the life and times of Robert Burns! Start Time/Date: Jan 28, 6:00 PM End Time/Date: Jan 28, 7:00 PM

Global Burns 2025: Burns & the Environment
28 January, online – free

Join @glasgowburns.bsky.social to explore Robert Burns & the environment. How did it influence his poetry? And how might we understand Burns in the context of contemporary environmental concerns?
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We are excited to welcome Dr Sarah Leith to our conference on Saturday where she will be discussing forged manuscripts 📜✍🏼

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Global Burns: Burns and the Environment - Tuesday 28th January

This virtual gathering will dive into Burns' creative and practical engagement with the environment, as both writer and improving farmer. 🐭✍🏼

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‘To a Mouse’ by Robert Burns

The Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference is next week! We have a wonderful line-up of speakers who will be presenting on an array of topics including Burns and the Environment. 🐭✍🏼

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Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
18 Jan @uofglasgow.bsky.social
in-person: £25

The 2025 @glasgowburns.bsky.social conference spans Burns & the environment; manuscript forgery; & Burns’s connections with the transatlantic slave trade & abolition
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We are counting down the days until our conference! Do you have your ticket? Our speakers include Ruth McKecknie who will be speaking about The National Trust for Scotland’s excellent new Burns resource.

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Sketch—New Year’s Day, 1790: To Mrs Dunlop Robert Burns This day, Time winds th’ exhausted chain; To run the twelvemonth’s length again: I see, the old bald-pated fellow, With ardent eyes, complexion sallow, Adjust the unimpair’d machine, To wheel the equal, dull routine. The absent lover, minor heir, In vain assail him with their prayer; Deaf as my friend, he sees them press, Nor makes the hour one moment less, Will you (the Major’s with the hounds, The happy tenants share his rounds; Coila’s fair Rachel’s care to-day, And blooming Keith’s engaged with Gray) From housewife cares a minute borrow, (That grandchild’s cap will do to-morrow,) And join with me a-moralizing; This day’s propitious to be wise in. First, what did yesternight deliver? “Another year has gone for ever.” And what is this day’s strong suggestion? “The passing moment’s all we rest on!” Rest on—for what? what do we here? Or why regard the passing year? Will Time, amus’d with proverb’d lore, Add to our date one minute more? A few days may—a few years must— Repose us in the silent dust.

Then, is it wise to damp our bliss? Yes—all such reasonings are amiss! The voice of Nature loudly cries, And many a message from the skies, That something in us never dies: That on this frail, uncertain state, Hang matters of eternal weight: That future life in worlds unknown Must take its hue from this alone; Whether as heavenly glory bright, Or dark as Misery’s woeful night. Since then, my honour’d first of friends, On this poor being all depends, Let us th’ important now employ, And live as those who never die. Tho’ you, with days and honours crown’d, Witness that filial circle round, (A sight life’s sorrows to repulse, A sight pale Envy to convulse), Others now claim your chief regard; Yourself, you wait your bright reward.

This day, Time winds th’ exhausted chain;
To run the twelvemonth’s length again:
I see, the old bald-pated fellow,
With ardent eyes, complexion sallow,
Adjust the unimpair’d machine,
To wheel the equal, dull routine…

—Robert Burns, “Sketch—New Year’s Day, 1790: To Mrs Dunlop”

The first appearance of Auld Lang Syne is studied by UofG academics In 4th volume of The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns, due to be published in February, Professor Kirsteen McCue has looked at Burns’ songs for George Thomson including Auld Lang Syne

Happy Hogmanay from the team at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies! 🎆 Wherever you are we are sure you will be singing Auld Lang Syne along with us tonight. Visit our blog to read about the origins of the iconic Scottish anthem:

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'My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here'

Obligatory Burns poem for #ScottishPoetryAdvent

[Robert Burns, 'My Heart's in the Highlands']

Have you got your ticket for our upcoming conference? Our speakers include Dr Craig Lamont and Dr Jessica Reid who will be launching an exciting new digital resource. ✉️✍🏼

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A portrait of Robert Burns and text reading: Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference.

Announcing the 2025 @glasgowburns.bsky.social Conference held at our Advanced Research Centre.

Join us on 18 Jan for fresh perspectives on Scotland's National Bard.

See the programme & book your place: eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-robert-burns-studies-conference-tickets-1029780480137

Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
18 Jan @uofglasgow.bsky.social – in-person: £25

The 2025 @glasgowburns.bsky.social conference spans Burns & the environment; manuscript forgery; & Burns’s connections with the transatlantic slave trade & abolition
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Remember to get your ticket for our annual conference! We are looking forward to Christopher Waddell’s presentation ‘Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear’ - Using Burns as a Medium to Further Green Initiatives at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum’

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A man stands in a wood-panelled room by a table with a bust of Robert Burns. The man is reading a book and has his hand on the shoulder of the bust of Robert Burns. Photo by Martin Shields.

Landmark research project @glasgowburns.bsky.social to explore Robert Burns's connections with Freemasonry.

A PhD scholar has been appointed to study how masonic networks influenced Scotland's national poet & his works like 'A Man's a Man for a' That'.

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The programme for our upcoming conference is now available! Join us on the 18th of January for a fascinating survey of the life, works and legacy of Scotland's National Bard, Robert Burns. The programme and tickets can be found here 👇🏼

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