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 ❤️🎄

Our latest SCROLL volume, ‘Scottish literature of the South Seas’, is out now. It was a joy to work with volume editors Allison Francis and Richard Hill on this title. Well done to all involved! 👏 @rhonabrown.bsky.social @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social @poncarova.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...

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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