… while @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social offers a palate cleanser of “Oysters and Aqua Vitae: Food and Drink in Robert Fergusson’s Poems”, washed down with a Tavern Rat cocktail brewed especially for the 250th anniversary of Fergusson’s death … 5/6 #C18th www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/oyst...

Reminder: Get your ticket's for next Wednesday's event in Edinburgh at Golden Hare Books! We look forward to celebrating our wonderful collection with you then!

BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025. Deadline: 12th January 2026. More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174

Took part in a fabulous online launch last night for 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill' with a bunch of other poets. Many thanks to @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for organising. I did a Scots version of this song from the book which I've also provided a link to. #BowieBard

Congratulations to IASSL members @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social on their new edited publication: '‘O’er a’ my labours sey your skill’: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson' (Taproot Press), published as part of the @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social project.

Pleased to receive @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social’s brilliant collection of poems responding to Robert Fergusson, the bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. I’m also glad to have a wee Franco-Scots piece in there (riffing on Fergusson’s Jacobite/apocalyptical eclogue, ‘The Ghaists’). 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Why are Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey Austen's neglected novels? Lovely to write this article for The Conversation's Jane Austen 250 series!

Just spent a gorgeous afternoon in Lanark watching a new performance penned by the brilliant Martin Travers for the equally brilliant Braw Clan, the Scots Language Theatre Group. If you haven’t heard of Braw Clan, you must! Find out more about their excellent work here: brawclan.com

🚨 @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the publication on 1 September of a new collection of poems in response to Robert Fergusson's life, works, and legacies, published with the brilliant Taproot Press! You can pre-order the book here: taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...

Looking forward to this halesome tribute to Robert Fergusson, the Jacobite bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. Thanks to @rhonabrown.bsky.social @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for featuring a wee piece of mine and more importantly for linking scholarship and contemporary poetry in a way that’s only too rare still!

Many thanks to @mjrsangster.bsky.social @abdavis.bsky.social & @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for their great papers on Romanticism and contemporary music esp Matt for organising-now thinking about the Romantic repeatability of deathly presences (& how bad writing degrades the quality of our suffering)

Thank you so much for your support @bsecs.bsky.social and Queen Mary! Really excited to have a week in London and finalise my notes/intro for the Campbell letters!

thank you for dinner & west end walk @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social ❤️

Editing Robert Fergusson 22 May @uofglasgow.bsky.social Free, ticketed Prof @rhonabrown.bsky.social & Dr @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social will discuss the complexities of editing Robert Fergusson (1750–74) & how we handle his tragic biography & his publication history www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/editing-ro...

Excited to have written for The Conversation on the family home of William Wordsworth, Rydal Mount's potential sale!!

We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open! Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025. We look forward to hearing from you!

@rhonabrown.bsky.social will be giving a talk 'Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth' on Tuesday 18 March 2025, from 16:00 - 17:30 at the University of Aberdeen. The event is hybrid, for more details, see the link below: www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...

Happy International Women's Day to my ECR friends especially. I admire your courage, kindness & wit every day & I would not be where I am today without you ❤️ (not everyone is on here but shout out to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social, @amybouwer.bsky.social, & @diddykeats1.bsky.social who are)

Top-notch theatre last night 🥳

⭐️DEADLINE EXTENSION⭐️ We've extended the deadline for submissions to our upcoming 'Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson' project. Follow the link below to find out more about how to submit 👇 robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/legacy/submi...

BARS Digital Symposia – Call for Expressions of Interest BARS is looking to run a series of one-day digital symposia. Along with the Digital Events, these symposia will provide spaces for addressing more specialised topics in international conference off-years. Info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5778

It's been quite a year celebrating Robert Fergusson at the 250th anniversary of his death. Our work keeps on and next year we'll be finalising his Complete Works for @edinburghup.bsky.social. Follow us @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social & @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social. Merry Christmas from #ProjectFergusson!

More on the new acquisition of the original trial sketch by the Mitchell Library here: www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2469931...

Reflecting back on an excellent event at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow on Thurs. Examining the murder trial of Madeleine Smith, the staff showed us new acquisitions (the original trial sketch!), ms letters & more. The Mitchell is a fab library and one that needs our support! Visit if you can!!

Nice article on the remains of Libberton’s Wynd, Edinburgh, where poet Robert Fergusson used to drink. Disappeared with the building of George IV Bridge, but parts of it are still accessible via the NLS. @rhonabrown.bsky.social @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social

… while @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social offers a palate cleanser of “Oysters and Aqua Vitae: Food and Drink in Robert Fergusson’s Poems”, washed down with a Tavern Rat cocktail brewed especially for the 250th anniversary of Fergusson’s death … 5/7 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/oyst...

Have a look at the latest ‘Bottle Imp’ ⬇️ featuring an article by @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social’s very own @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social. And make sure you try out the Robert Fergusson-themed cocktail this weekend, dreamed up by Amy and @poncarova.bsky.social!

No credits like cocktail credits 🍹 A great article by @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social on food & drink in Robert Fergusson @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social for The Bottle Imp @scotlit.bsky.social, featuring a recipe for The Tavern Rat: www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/oyst...

'Oysters and Aqua Vitae: Food & Drink in Fergusson’s Poems', a short piece by our project RA @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social y.social is now available to read in the latest issue of 'The Bottle Imp'. Featuring satire, gluttony, and a 'Tavern Rat' cocktail recipe (concocted with @poncarova.bsky.social!)

Info on a current project for new friends. Alongside @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social, I'm preparing an edition of the works of Robert Fergusson (1750-74) via @leverhulme.bsky.social. 2024 is the 250th anniversary of Fergusson's death - follow us @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk

This is amazing - and I saw someone asking for exactly this on here a couple of days ago so if anyone knows who that was…

For lovers of #18thcentury and early #19thcentury satirists, our archive of George 'Moutard' Woodward cartoons may pique your fancy - we have nearly 500! They're all digitised and on our online catalogue: tinyurl.com/ykfs68pa #history #archives #art

Hello to our new followers - we're "The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies" project. We're editing a new edition of the works of Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson (1750-1774) & celebrating his many legacies. Find out more: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk

Hi all, I'm a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow, currently working on the amazing @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social project (give us a follow over there!). I'm thrilled to be editing the letters of Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) too, which will be out in 2026 with Liverpool Uni Press!

Opening and closing eighteenth-century letters at West Yorkshire Records Service in Leeds - no envelopes required.

The talk I gave as part of Lakeside Arts at the University of Nottingham's exhibition, 'Living Letters: Correspondence Then and Now', is now available online. There are also amazing letter-based videos by Prof. Lynda Pratt and Dr Charlotte May available too! www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsa...

#FergussonFact - Fergusson attended St Andrews University from 1764-1768 on a scholarship specifically for students with the surname 'Fergusson'! He continued to write about St Andrews throughout his short career, including elegies to the University's porter and Maths professor.

Excellent talk by @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social On humour in letters. Reminds me of the absurdity of my teenage letters. Emails don't cut it.

We're thrilled to have a guest blog on the website from our friend Matt Brady! Matt is a history tour guide at Edinburgh attraction The Real Mary King's Close, who has written about learning local history through Fergusson. Check it out below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/learning-loc...

Looking forward to giving this lunchtime talk on Thursday at the Lakeside Arts Centre, Uni of Nottingham on 'Letters and Laughs: Humour in Literary Correspondence'!

Did you know that the vast majority of Robert Fergusson's poems were first published in a contemporary magazine, the Weekly Magazine or Edinburgh Amusement? We'll be focusing on that key context in our new edition of Fergusson's works.

I passed my viva yesterday! Ate lots of ice cream in the uni bar afterwards too!!

I'll be manning this Bluesky account too - give Robert Fergusson a follow for updates on the exciting new project I'm a RA on!! Such exciting things in the works!!