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Nadine Lee
Burns Night Prep - All Things Haggis
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This coming Saturday is perhaps the biggest day of the year for Scottish cooking - Burns Night is the day in which the Scots skill for bashing turnips and squeezing minced sheep offal into an animal'...
Topics: Robert Burns, Burns Night, Haggis
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Nadine Lee
The Duchess and I
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery Frieze As you enter the main hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 150 titans of Scottish history gaze down at you, providing a dramatic introduction to...
Topics: Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, Castle Gordon, edinburgh, General Cornwallis, Gordon Highlanders, Island of the Swans, Jane Gordon Duchess of Gordon, Lady Jane Maxwell, Lord Brome, Robert Burns, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Sir WIlliam Maxwell
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Donald
Robert Burns - Greatest Scot of all time...?
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As part of the Homecoming Scotland celebrations, a poll was held by STV to see who the public believes the greatest ever Scot is. Thousands of people were said to have voted from the list of 35 nomi...
Topics: Alex Harvey, Alexander Fleming, Andrew Carnegie, Billy Connolly, David Tennant, Homecoming, Jock Stein, Robert Burns, Robert the Bruce, William Alexander Smith, William Wallace
Amanda Moffet
A New Take on Robert Burns
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Robert Burns in literature was a lonely, unhealthy, complicated, romantic and earthy genius but in art he has always been shown as biscuit tin boring. The standard Burns image is flat and lifeless,...
Topics: Robert Burns
Amanda Moffet
Bob Dylan Names Robert Burns as His Biggest Inspiration
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Bob Dylan's music has inspired generations of music lovers. He has now named his own personal inspiration as our favorite Scots poet Robert Burns. When asked which lyric or verse had the largest i...
Topics: Robert Burns