Unlike our past Villages of the Week, Alloway is not a village at all but rather a suburb of Ayr — though it used to be its own village in the time of Robert Burns. Despite its small size ...

Robert Burns, who was born in Alloway, Ayrshire in 1759, is Scotland’s national poet and well-known globally for writing Auld Lang Syne, a popular song used to mark the beginning of the new year.

A group of men intent on retrieving the poet’s skull gathered close to the Burns Mausoleum in Dumfries at 7pm one night in late March, 1834. With too many people on the streets of town at that time, ...

“This was organised by a small group of his friends at his boyhood home in Alloway, Ayrshire ... The author of Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics – The Bard of Contention (December ...

Caroline Smith, NTS operations manager at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway, South Ayrshire, said: “This list features some of my personal favourites from our collection.

Robert (or Robbie or Rabbie) Burns. Burns was born on Jan. 25, 1759, in Alloway, Scotland. His first book of poetry was published in 1786. By the time he passed in 1796, he wrote hundreds of ...

Alistair Fenn/NTS/PA Wire Caroline Smith, NTS operations manager at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway, South Ayrshire, described some of the items as “very humbling” and said they ...