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MORAG LINDSAY: What’s the Scots word for chauvinist snob?
June 19 2021
‘He heard the sound of creaking leather boots’: Perth orchestra founder Ian White relives Burns night ‘paranormal encounter’
June 12 2021
Serial shoplifter jailed after assaulting Kirkcaldy Co-op worker
June 5 2021
£55,000 Montrose funding to help one of Scotland’s oldest museums become 21st Century attraction
March 25 2021
Gym worker in Dundee sees poetry work popularity soar during lockdown
March 20 2021
Three easy whisky-based cocktails to make at home to toast The Bard this Burns Night
January 25 2021
Celebrate the life and poetry of Robert Burns every day of the year with a fascinating new book on Scotlands Bard
January 23 2021
Did Robert Burns grow up speaking Doric?
January 23 2021
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Robert Burns: The remarkable night a surgeon robbed the National Bard’s grave and stole his skull
January 23 2021
From a Burns brunch to tasty sausage rolls, some alternative ways to get creative with your haggis
January 21 2021
Haggis – English!? ‘That’s rubbish! As far as I am concerned, just like whisky and football, haggis was invented in Scotland’
January 21 2021
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From haggis pizza to virtual suppers, some alternative ways to enjoy your dinner this Burns Night
January 18 2021
‘Auld Lang Zoom’: More than 300 people sign up for Burntisland Rotary’s virtual Burns supper
January 16 2021
Bonnie Prince Charlie 300th anniversary: The ‘Outlander effect’ and busting the myths around the ‘Young Pretender’
December 26 2020
Niel Gow statue unveiled near childhood Perthshire home after 17 year campaign by fans
December 10 2020
Dundee street poet Gary Robertson uses ‘forgotten’ Scots phrase to get into Christmas spirit
December 1 2020
One million memorial inscriptions gathered in lockdown history project
November 26 2020
REVIEW: Lament for Sheku Bayoh holds up a mirror to Scotland’s relationship with racism
November 20 2020
Dundee hotel guest requesting face mask to stop husband snoring is one of Travelodge’s top 20 bizarre requests
November 12 2020
Halloween: Why the 19th century pseudo-science of phrenology studied the skulls of witches – but was it ‘quackery or science?’
October 31 2020
City fathers spurned Dundee poet William McGonagall’s bid to upstage Robert Burns
October 15 2020
Rare images from Arbroath Lifeboat’s rich heritage tell the stories of past heroes
October 1 2020
SHACKLED LEGACY: The north-east’s slave trade links and how Fettercairn was at the heart of a slavery ’empire’
July 1 2020
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COLLECTING: Unique Burns’ letter alludes to Tam o’Shanter, the Bard’s most famous poem
June 13 2020