Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Genealogy Blog:- Thousands of letters hand written by people such as Charles Dickens, Sean Connery and Winston Churchill will go on display this week in Ayrshire, Scotland.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
A ROBERT Burns manuscript is to form the centrepiece in a display of Scottish cultural treasures to go on show in Edinburgh this week.
Scotland on Sunday (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
A ROBERT Burns manuscript is to form the centrepiece in a display of Scottish cultural treasures to go on show in Edinburgh this week.
friendsofwighton (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Traditional singer Sheena Wellington will perform the works of Robert Burns and the Irish poet Thomas Moore, for the Friends of Wighton's February Cappuccino Concert. Held in the atmospheric setting of the Wighton Heritage Centre, upstairs in Dundee Central Library, the concert is on Saturday 20th February 2010. Coffee and papers are served from 10.30am, and the music starts at 11am. The distinguished...
J.M. Bell (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Bluegal over at Crooks and Liars reminded me that 2009 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns – The World’s Greatest Poet. Share this on del.icio.usDigg this!Share this on RedditBuzz up!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponShare this on TechnoratiPost this to MySpaceShare this on FacebookTweet This!Email this to a friend'Subscribe to [...]
Waterbeck Scottish Women's Rural Institute (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Our President Anne Vevers welcomed all Waterbeck members and many guests from the local rurals as well as the Dumfriesshire President, Mrs Irela Hamilton and Secretary, Mrs Jean Wilson to Waterbeck SWRI’s 60th Anniversary Celebration Burns Supper. Waterbeck SWRI’s oldest member Jen Jardine was called upon to cut the 60th Anniversary cake. The cake which had been made by Deena Reid looked...
Scotland on Sunday (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
ROBERT Burns was known to be a "magpie" poet who drew on verse by lesser-known Scots.
NarcissusWorks (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
1 Is thought to be a night when witches, devils, and other mischief-making beings are abroad on their baneful midnight errands; particularly those aerial people, the fairies, are said on that night to hold a grand anniversary. —R. B. Thanks to About.com: Poetry ///
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Robert Burns: US making plans for Iran nuke strategy...
Hugo Schwyzer (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
I was emailing back and forth with a mentee of mine recently. “Lucy”, at twenty, sees herself as bright and talented, but also as insecure and filled with self-doubt. She doesn’t think of herself as particularly attractive or popular; she remembers her adolescent awkwardness vividly. On the other hand, she wrote, her [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
WASHINGTON - North Korea's suggestion that it might return to nuclear negotiations could open the way to its first talks with the Obama Administration, but there are warning signs that the North has no intention of fully disarming.The...
London SEM (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Earlier this year the American House of Representatives passed a resolution recognising the close ties between the mutual inspiration between Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns and the Founding Fathers of America. Congressman Mike McIntyre of North Carolina proposed and steered the resolution through the House of Representatives in February 2009. North Carolina is of course [...]
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
ACTRESS Joanna Lumley learnt to plough at a farm where Robert Burns lived yesterday.
The PC Clinic (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
Scots Poet Robert Burns may have been dead for a couple of hundred years but that did not stop him earlier this year from making an impressive impact on the House of Representatives. In fact the impact caused them to pass a Resolution to confirm the link between the work of Robert Burns and [...]
The Grumpy Spindoctor (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Robert Burns - closed - for construction work..... The Grumpy SD has taken our First Minister at his word and decided that in this year of homecoming he will take the road north from London to see Scotland as a foreign visitor might see the country. Mr Salmond you'll remember called on Scots the world over (and non-Scots like President Obama)to come home, stating that in this special year: "It...
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