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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.
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Gray Day 2026: Reimagined Glasgow, 45 years of Lanark. Beyond our 25 Feb evening event at Oran Mor we have a WIDER PROGRAMME… enjoy a P7 schools competition, free clay workshop at AGA, archive talk with @aowensarchive.bsky.social at Kelvingrove, & an online interactive exhibition.
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Robert Burns never set foot in America but his words did, says leading Scots American Ian Houston ahead of his lecture @glasgowburns.bsky.social conference on 17 Jan 2026.
As the US turns 250, discover how Scotland’s national bard shaped a nation’s conscience.
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In celebration of Burns night, I’ve written a piece about the connection between Robert Burns and Mary, Queen of Scots.
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John Gibson Lockhart is most famous for having been the son-in-law of Walter Scott, who also had a longstanding interest in Mary.
‘Scottish Treasure Trove’ was popular enough to be reprinted in 1979 after its initial publication in 1928.
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’.
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