To celebrate Burns Night on Sunday, I wrote an article for @theconversation.com about the role that Robert Burns played in the afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots. Have a read below!

The last of our Burns Bletherings has now dropped into the mailbox of subscribers. Hannah is reviewing Pauline Mackay’s Burns for Every Day of the Year. #theblether #thebletherpgr #robertburns @hannahgrim02.bsky.social

Well done to @ginorgym.bsky.social for coming ‘out of the shadows’ with her opinion on Burns. 👏🏼

Had great fun reading and editing the Blether this month! A great spectrum of insights and opinions on the Scottish Bard which I’m sure will be thought-provoking to all of our readers 🧐💭

Mary, Queen of Scots is remembered as a ‘Jeezabel’ in George Blake’s ‘Scottish Treasure Trove’ (1928). The collection contains ‘the most interesting historical extracts and literary quotations about Scotland’. Quotation from John Gibson Lockhart’s 1823 satirical bildungsroman ‘Reginald Dalton’.

Weekend reading sorted, thanks to @ginorgym.bsky.social 📚💙

We're delighted to have such a strong PGR and ECR contingent at our 2026 conference. Join us on 17th January for a ‘New Directions in Burns Studies’ roundtable, ft. @hannahgrim02.bsky.social, Struan McCorriscken, and John Watson. We look forward to welcoming you! #BurnsSupper225

Rounding off 2025, we are pleased to announce CRBS Research Associate @drcleoocy.bsky.social as our next conference speaker, presenting on 'The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention'. Join us @uofgarc.bsky.social on 17th January 2026! #BurnsSupper225

Music and song are central to CRBS conferences, and it gives us huge pleasure to announce Ellie Beaton, 2025 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician, as the musical act for our #BurnsSupper225 conference. Learn more: www.elliebeaton.co.uk/& book tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for... 🎶

A very Happy Christmas from @ginorgym.bsky.social @hannahgrim02.bsky.social @swottypat.bsky.social @katekane1542.bsky.social aka The Blether team! More from us in 2026! #happychristmas #thebletherpgr #thebletherscotlit

Breaking news from @glasgowburns.bsky.social and the perfect way to round off this year! Thrilled to be working on this new project celebrating The Burns Supper x Living Heritage - check out our global survey here: forms.office.com/e/ksbivWh7zs We cannot wait to hear from you! #BurnsSupper225 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

How do you celebrate Burns Night? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 UofG's @glasgowburns.bsky.social has launched The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention. Help us build a crowdsourced archive of Burns Suppers worldwide for the 225th anniversary next July. Learn more: gla.ac/44Veysf

We are delighted that GlobalScot Ian Houston will deliver the Craig Sharp Memorial Lecture at our conference @uofgarc.bsky.social on 17/01/26, celebrating 225 Years of Burns Suppers! Ian’s talk will focus on ‘The Burns Supper in America’ - book your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

I’m excited to be working alongside the @natlibscot.bsky.social to deliver their upcoming event in celebration of Burns Night. Come along for some fascinating insight into the Bard’s unique relationship with the natural world! @paulinemackay.bsky.social @dr-ron.bsky.social #scottishliterature

Join us in Glasgow on Saturday 17th January 2026 for the next Centre for Robert Burns Studies conference, to be held @uofgarc.bsky.social in collaboration with @n-t-s.bsky.social, centring around the Burns Supper. Tickets and full programme here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for... All welcome!

Stunning album of Burn’s songs by the wonderful Patrick Doyle. @hannahgrim02.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social #robertburns #patrickdoyle

Research day @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social with the best view on campus 🙌🏻

Introducing ‘The Blether’ 💬 The Blether is a developing idea from 4 Scot Lit PGRs @uofglasgow.bsky.social designed to highlight the work and research being carried out in Scottish Literature. Follow us to get involved!📚✍🏼💬 #scottishliterature #theblether #thebletherpgr

Exploring Scotland (and a lot of bookshops!) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚🦌

Thoroughly enjoyed this @ntsonline Challenging, entertaining and a whole new view on McPherson’s Ossian! @hannahgrim02.bsky.social

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

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‘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. #ValentinesDay 💌❤️‍🔥🎶

A rare Saturday morning off 🥐☕️

🚨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: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A day full Burns @glasgowburns.bsky.social Conference then @uofglasgow.bsky.social Alumni Burns Supper. Last week was my 1st time back to being me the PGR rather than me the carer. Altho that role still has to be done, being able to spend some time in my PGR world is so good for my soul.

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 💻 #robertburns #scottishliterature

Excited for this one 🐭✍🏼

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 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

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: www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive... #hogmanay #auldlangsyne

Academic reading has been put to the side for a few weeks so I can finally get to the massive pile of ‘reading for fun’ books which has been slowly growing 🎄☕️📚

The Museums in the Metaverse team are delighted to launch this Kelvin 200 VR experience! Working with The Hunterian, Edify & Lateral North. Come and try it in the University of Glasgow’s ARC-XR, Wed 18th, 10am-4pm; Thurs 19th, 10am-1pm! 👀

'My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here' Obligatory Burns poem for #ScottishPoetryAdvent [Robert Burns, 'My Heart's in the Highlands']

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

Glasgow: City of Poets 22 January, National Library of Scotland at Kelvinhall – free A celebration of Glasgow’s poets & the city’s place in the history of Scottish poetry, from the legacy of Robert Burns to poetry in the 19th, 20th & 21st centuries www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-ci...

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 👇🏼 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

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A day in the capital to celebrate 7 years of us ❤️🎄

A wee refreshment to celebrate a busy week, that included receiving the Scottish Literature Douglas Gifford prize for Good Citizenship (2022-2023) & seeing my fellow MPhil’ers @hannahgrim02.bsky.social & Kate also receive awards for their hard work. Thank you @paulinemackay.bsky.social & team

The poor postman is never away from our door! Today’s bookshelf top up ✉️📚💭

If you are an academic writing on any aspect or period of Scottish Literature, please consider submitting an article to the peer-reviewed journal SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW. Published twice a year by @scotlit.bsky.social, the journal is edited by me and the very excellent @rhonabrown.bsky.social

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Burns, Bawdry and endless amounts of coffee are on today’s agenda ☕️📚 #robertburns #scottishliterature

Here’s a provisional clanjamfry of scholars, novelists, bodies and poets involved in Scottish literature and present on Bluesky. Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/3EEXPcA

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