Ronnie Young
@dr-ron.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Scot Lit, Uni of Glasgow & Associate Director, Centre for Robert Burns Studies. Editor of stuff. Eater of Crisps. 🇪🇺🏴
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Burns and Nature 🌳👨🌾🐭
Join us and the @natlibscot.bsky.social as we explore the Ploughman Poet’s relationship with nature through poetry, spoken word, song and film.
21st January 2026 | Kelvin Hall | 6pm
Book your free ticket here👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burns-and-...
Join us and the @natlibscot.bsky.social as we explore the Ploughman Poet’s relationship with nature through poetry, spoken word, song and film.
21st January 2026 | Kelvin Hall | 6pm
Book your free ticket here👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burns-and-...
Burns and Nature
An exploration of Robert Burns’ relationship to nature through poetry, spoken word and film.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Burns and Nature 🌳👨🌾🐭
Join us and the @natlibscot.bsky.social as we explore the Ploughman Poet’s relationship with nature through poetry, spoken word, song and film.
21st January 2026 | Kelvin Hall | 6pm
Book your free ticket here👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burns-and-...
Join us and the @natlibscot.bsky.social as we explore the Ploughman Poet’s relationship with nature through poetry, spoken word, song and film.
21st January 2026 | Kelvin Hall | 6pm
Book your free ticket here👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burns-and-...
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Happy Birthday to Robert Fergusson, born #OTD 275 years ago!
For more info on what we've been up to on Project Fergusson as the official end of the project approaches, see our website: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk
We've got online exhibitions, other resources, project updates and much more!
For more info on what we've been up to on Project Fergusson as the official end of the project approaches, see our website: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk
We've got online exhibitions, other resources, project updates and much more!
September 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Happy Birthday to Robert Fergusson, born #OTD 275 years ago!
For more info on what we've been up to on Project Fergusson as the official end of the project approaches, see our website: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk
We've got online exhibitions, other resources, project updates and much more!
For more info on what we've been up to on Project Fergusson as the official end of the project approaches, see our website: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk
We've got online exhibitions, other resources, project updates and much more!
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Dear Sir:
Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…
—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic (1791)
#WorldLetterWritingDay #C18th
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Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…
—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic (1791)
#WorldLetterWritingDay #C18th
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September 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Dear Sir:
Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…
—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic (1791)
#WorldLetterWritingDay #C18th
news.lettersofnote.com/p/thou-pickl...
Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…
—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic (1791)
#WorldLetterWritingDay #C18th
news.lettersofnote.com/p/thou-pickl...
Gentle reminder that applications for our funded PhD on Burns and the Environment closes soon. Enquiries welcome. 👇
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - Robert Burns and the Environment Scholarship
www.gla.ac.uk
August 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Gentle reminder that applications for our funded PhD on Burns and the Environment closes soon. Enquiries welcome. 👇
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
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Carlos Llazza Corrales on Translating Burns into Spanish
21 May, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.
Carlos Llazza Corrales discusses his translations of Burns, & the role of literary translation in creating a Scoto-Hispanic literary space
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...
21 May, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.
Carlos Llazza Corrales discusses his translations of Burns, & the role of literary translation in creating a Scoto-Hispanic literary space
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...
Highlight Talk - Carlos Llazza Corrales on Translating Burns into Spanish
Free Highlight Talk in the Robertson Room at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Carlos Llazza Corrales on Translating Burns into Spanish
21 May, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.
Carlos Llazza Corrales discusses his translations of Burns, & the role of literary translation in creating a Scoto-Hispanic literary space
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...
21 May, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.
Carlos Llazza Corrales discusses his translations of Burns, & the role of literary translation in creating a Scoto-Hispanic literary space
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...
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Genuinely inspiring day today launching our Scottish Literature in the Classroom project with secondary school teachers from across Scotland and the @sqanews.bsky.social. Thanks to colleagues Corey Gibson, Pip Osmond-Williams, Jen Farrar, Maureen Farrell and @dr-ron.bsky.social. More to come soon!
May 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Genuinely inspiring day today launching our Scottish Literature in the Classroom project with secondary school teachers from across Scotland and the @sqanews.bsky.social. Thanks to colleagues Corey Gibson, Pip Osmond-Williams, Jen Farrar, Maureen Farrell and @dr-ron.bsky.social. More to come soon!
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Like the bairns of Falkirk, ye mind naithing but mischief.
—from Allan Ramsay’s A COLLECTION OF SCOTS PROVERBS (1737)
WARNING: “Some amang the gentle vulgar, that are mair nice than wise, may tartle at the braidness, or, (as they name it) coarse expressions.”
—from Allan Ramsay’s A COLLECTION OF SCOTS PROVERBS (1737)
WARNING: “Some amang the gentle vulgar, that are mair nice than wise, may tartle at the braidness, or, (as they name it) coarse expressions.”
May 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Like the bairns of Falkirk, ye mind naithing but mischief.
—from Allan Ramsay’s A COLLECTION OF SCOTS PROVERBS (1737)
WARNING: “Some amang the gentle vulgar, that are mair nice than wise, may tartle at the braidness, or, (as they name it) coarse expressions.”
—from Allan Ramsay’s A COLLECTION OF SCOTS PROVERBS (1737)
WARNING: “Some amang the gentle vulgar, that are mair nice than wise, may tartle at the braidness, or, (as they name it) coarse expressions.”
I’ve written a piece for the NTS looking at forgeries in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum made by the prolific Edinburgh forger ‘Antique Smith’. Smith flooded the late-19thC collectibles market with fakes of major writers, incl. Burns, Byron, Dickens and Scott. 👇
www.nts.org.uk/collections/...
www.nts.org.uk/collections/...
Robert Burns: forgery and ‘Antique Smith’
Ronnie Young takes a look at the fascinating world of forgery and Burns manuscripts.
www.nts.org.uk
April 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I’ve written a piece for the NTS looking at forgeries in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum made by the prolific Edinburgh forger ‘Antique Smith’. Smith flooded the late-19thC collectibles market with fakes of major writers, incl. Burns, Byron, Dickens and Scott. 👇
www.nts.org.uk/collections/...
www.nts.org.uk/collections/...
Special Issue: Burns and North America out now! As guest eds Arun Sood and Corey Andrew’s point out, Burns inspired numerous US writers and ‘came to embody the independent democratic ideals of the young Republic’. Worth reflecting on at this particular point in time.
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Burns Chronicle :
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April 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Special Issue: Burns and North America out now! As guest eds Arun Sood and Corey Andrew’s point out, Burns inspired numerous US writers and ‘came to embody the independent democratic ideals of the young Republic’. Worth reflecting on at this particular point in time.
euppublishing.com/loi/burns
euppublishing.com/loi/burns
Hot off the press, the Spring issue of the Burns Chronicle just arrived!
Well done to guest editors Arun Sood and Corey Andrews for putting together this special issue on Robert Burns and America. 👍
@edinburghup.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social
Well done to guest editors Arun Sood and Corey Andrews for putting together this special issue on Robert Burns and America. 👍
@edinburghup.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Hot off the press, the Spring issue of the Burns Chronicle just arrived!
Well done to guest editors Arun Sood and Corey Andrews for putting together this special issue on Robert Burns and America. 👍
@edinburghup.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social
Well done to guest editors Arun Sood and Corey Andrews for putting together this special issue on Robert Burns and America. 👍
@edinburghup.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social
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We're delighted to announce that registration is now OPEN for the British Association for Romantic Studies 2025 ECR & PGR Conference, 'Romantic (Un)Consciousness'.
Please visit our conference website for further details and to register!
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@bars.bsky.social
Please visit our conference website for further details and to register!
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April 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We're delighted to announce that registration is now OPEN for the British Association for Romantic Studies 2025 ECR & PGR Conference, 'Romantic (Un)Consciousness'.
Please visit our conference website for further details and to register!
barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home
@bars.bsky.social
Please visit our conference website for further details and to register!
barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home
@bars.bsky.social
Delighted to be in Mainz to present at the launch of the ‘Teaching Scotland’ community, to see all the great work in Scottish Studies being done by our friends there, and to share some of the great teaching resources from the Association for Scottish Literature with German teachers. @asls.org.uk
April 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Delighted to be in Mainz to present at the launch of the ‘Teaching Scotland’ community, to see all the great work in Scottish Studies being done by our friends there, and to share some of the great teaching resources from the Association for Scottish Literature with German teachers. @asls.org.uk
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Join us for the Galt Society's annual lecture in Irvine, Scotland, with Toronto's Professor Angela Esterhammer and her paper 'Discovering the Transatlantic Galt'. Tickets can be booked by contacting the Society's Secretary, Dr Craig Lamont. Full details are 👇
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Lecture by Angela Esterhammer
We are delighted to announce details of the 2025 Annual Lecture, to be delivered by Prof Angela Esterhammer. Following the success of last year, the event will take place at the Wellwood Burns Cent…
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April 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Join us for the Galt Society's annual lecture in Irvine, Scotland, with Toronto's Professor Angela Esterhammer and her paper 'Discovering the Transatlantic Galt'. Tickets can be booked by contacting the Society's Secretary, Dr Craig Lamont. Full details are 👇
thejohngaltsociety.com/2025/04/03/l...
thejohngaltsociety.com/2025/04/03/l...
ChatGPT makers train AI to write metafiction. But is it aware that it’s writing metafiction? And if not, is it still metafiction? 🤔
Discuss.😂
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Discuss.😂
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’
As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
ChatGPT makers train AI to write metafiction. But is it aware that it’s writing metafiction? And if not, is it still metafiction? 🤔
Discuss.😂
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Discuss.😂
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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@rhonabrown.bsky.social will be giving a talk 'Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth' on Tuesday 18 March 2025, from 16:00 - 17:30 at the University of Aberdeen.
The event is hybrid, for more details, see the link below:
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
The event is hybrid, for more details, see the link below:
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth
www.abdn.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
@rhonabrown.bsky.social will be giving a talk 'Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth' on Tuesday 18 March 2025, from 16:00 - 17:30 at the University of Aberdeen.
The event is hybrid, for more details, see the link below:
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
The event is hybrid, for more details, see the link below:
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
Obituary in Scots Magazine 1791 for bloke who blows £3000 inheritance (a small fortune today) on a monster pub sesh for all his mates, ends up in the poor house, and is supported in beer for life by a very grateful pub landlord.
New career goal. :-D
New career goal. :-D
February 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Obituary in Scots Magazine 1791 for bloke who blows £3000 inheritance (a small fortune today) on a monster pub sesh for all his mates, ends up in the poor house, and is supported in beer for life by a very grateful pub landlord.
New career goal. :-D
New career goal. :-D
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Would you like to find out more about innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Burns studies? Get your ticket for tomorrow to find out more 👩💻
Just one more day until the next ARC Conversations lecture!
Dr Pauline MacKay @paulinemackay.bsky.social, Director of @glasgowburns.bsky.social discusses her experience of interdisciplinary research, innovation and impact.
📅 Feb 18th, 4:00-5:30, the ARC
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Dr Pauline MacKay @paulinemackay.bsky.social, Director of @glasgowburns.bsky.social discusses her experience of interdisciplinary research, innovation and impact.
📅 Feb 18th, 4:00-5:30, the ARC
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February 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Would you like to find out more about innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Burns studies? Get your ticket for tomorrow to find out more 👩💻
The timidity of Labour in government is perplexing. Closer ties to Europe urgently needed, but Lab won’t even do something positive for young people. They govern as if scared of tabloid headlines.
Everyone knows Brexit was a failure and is holding UK back. Time for UK government to call it out
Everyone knows Brexit was a failure and is holding UK back. Time for UK government to call it out
NEW: Yvette Cooper rules out a youth mobility scheme between the UK and EU: "That's not the right starting point for us at all."
Brussels is demanding one as part of the government's "reset" of relations with the bloc.
Brussels is demanding one as part of the government's "reset" of relations with the bloc.
February 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The timidity of Labour in government is perplexing. Closer ties to Europe urgently needed, but Lab won’t even do something positive for young people. They govern as if scared of tabloid headlines.
Everyone knows Brexit was a failure and is holding UK back. Time for UK government to call it out
Everyone knows Brexit was a failure and is holding UK back. Time for UK government to call it out
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Robert Burns declared this ‘one of the finest songs I ever made in my life; and, besides, is composed on a young lady, positively the most beautiful, lovely woman in the world’. Wonderful from the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir. #BurnsNight #RobertBurns #Scotland
It's nearly #BurnsNight! 🏴
Our @chapelchoir.bsky.social perform 'Blyth hae I been on yon hill' - a piece Burns said was ‘one of the finest songs I ever made in my life’.
Enjoy this beautiful tribute to Scotland’s National Bard 🎶
@glasgowburns.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/D-oSj...
Our @chapelchoir.bsky.social perform 'Blyth hae I been on yon hill' - a piece Burns said was ‘one of the finest songs I ever made in my life’.
Enjoy this beautiful tribute to Scotland’s National Bard 🎶
@glasgowburns.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/D-oSj...
University of Glasgow Chapel Choir perform "Blyth hae I been on yon hill" by Robert Burns
YouTube video by University of Glasgow
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January 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Robert Burns declared this ‘one of the finest songs I ever made in my life; and, besides, is composed on a young lady, positively the most beautiful, lovely woman in the world’. Wonderful from the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir. #BurnsNight #RobertBurns #Scotland
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🚨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...
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...
January 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🚨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...
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...
Some good news in time for Burns Night. We’ve just announced a new funded PHD as part of wider research into Robert Burns and the Environment. Watch this space. @glasgowburns.bsky.social
From fields to fauna, Robert Burns saw poetry in every blade of grass.
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social @dr-ron.bsky.social unveil new PhD scholarship researching the bard's profound connection with the natural world #BurnsNight
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@uofglasgow.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social @dr-ron.bsky.social unveil new PhD scholarship researching the bard's profound connection with the natural world #BurnsNight
gla.ac/3PKLkUS
January 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Some good news in time for Burns Night. We’ve just announced a new funded PHD as part of wider research into Robert Burns and the Environment. Watch this space. @glasgowburns.bsky.social
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To give you all a little extra time, the deadline for submissions to our poetry collection 'Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson' has been extended to Friday 28th February 2025!
More information below ⤵️
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/legacy/submi...
More information below ⤵️
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/legacy/submi...
January 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
To give you all a little extra time, the deadline for submissions to our poetry collection 'Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson' has been extended to Friday 28th February 2025!
More information below ⤵️
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/legacy/submi...
More information below ⤵️
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/legacy/submi...
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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
#robertburns
#scottishliterature
January 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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
#robertburns
#scottishliterature