‘Manufacturing Robert Burns, 1859-1896: George Square to Irvine Moor’
On January 27, 2016, the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies and the Centre for Robert Burns Studies welcomed Professor Chris Whatley (University of Dundee) to discuss ‘Manufacturing Robert Burns, 1859-1896: George Square to Irvine Moor’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. After Robert Burns’s death in 1796, he was celebrated and… Continue reading