A fine line
Thomas Muir got penal servitude for merely asking a question Robert Burns trod a fine line between freedom and liberty. This was the very subject of many of his works but he lived at a time where freedom of speech…
Robert Burns the new songs
Stories and confessions
Robert Burns the new songs
Stories and confessions
Category Stories
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The Deil’s work
In 1789 Burns became an Excise Man for reasons best known to himself. Excise men in the 18th Century, to put it mildly, weren’t well liked. Traffic wardens aren’t popular nowadays but Excise Men were a lot, lot, less popular…
Robert Burns and the Scottish School of Common Sense
When, in 1707, Scotland bowed down to Wesminster patronage, it was a Country of intellectual superiority for it had 5 universities to England’s 2. Moreover, Scotland’s school education system was also superior to England’s making the Scots the most literate…