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 ...

“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 ...

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, ...

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. “It seems to be ...

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.

I FIND myself in disagreement with those traditional literary and educational types who have expressed fury that the work of Robert Burns is ...

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has today launched its new digital portal of information on the historic environment.

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 ...