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With it being this week, I coloured in this old sketch I drew of Cassandra with a haggis!

To everyone living in Scotland, what did you do to celebrate Burns night this year?

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2023-01-28

Who's having a wee dance tomorrow?

Another fantastic image from the stylish Clare Mackie. In preperation for Burns Night.

Find more from Clare on our website: https://t.co/Gm6nlu7TmG

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2023-01-26

SCOTLAND! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Clare Mackie has produced so much incredible Scotland-inspired artwork, we couldn't resist showing you another wonderful illustration before Burns Night draws to a close.

Find more work by Clare on our website: https://t.co/Gm6nlu7TmG

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2023-01-26

In celebration of tonight, we share three versions of Munnings’ ‘Isabella’.

Munnings was clearly taken with this imagined heroine as he created several different pictures on the subject.

 

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2023-01-26

From all of us at Origins, we wish everybody a very happy Burns Night. Lang may yer lum reek 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Let’s hope that this time next year, our show is in production and being shot!

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2023-01-25

& from the Radio Times a C W Bacon scraperboard of the bard for a broadcast of "The Fall" in c1950.

https://t.co/EmlQQdih7M

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2023-01-25

And just like that, we bow out of for yet another year. A descriptive etching by Walter Geikie of a poem by Robert Burns - 'Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnny'. Bet Tam was glad of that last dram before he mounted Meg yon night!
Happy and sleep soundly!

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2022-01-26

Happy Burns Night! Here’s my latest map for Countryfile Magazine of the beautiful Shetland Isles

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2022-01-26

Happy Burns night folks! Don't forget to address your haggis! And be polite!!

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2022-01-26

Since it’s here’s a runaway Haggis who doesn’t want to be a great chieftain of the sausage race. Tuesday brought to you by and

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What is your favourite poem by Robert Burns?
Mine is 'Tam o' Shanter'. This is one of Alexander Goudie's many paintings of the poem.
You can read the full poem on the BBC link below👇
https://t.co/pIyyZCP6v7

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2022-01-26

For To a Mouse, On Turning Her up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785: 'I’m truly sorry man’s dominion,/Has broken nature’s social union,/An’ justifies that ill opinion,/Which makes thee startle/At me...'
(The Harvest Mouse by Joseph Wolf, Once a Week 1861)

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2022-01-26

Have a wonderful Burns Night and sign up for a frightfully fearsome Scottish anthology.... Heh Heh!

Link in the reply below 👇👍🥃

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2022-01-26

‘Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o the puddin'-race! Happy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Here's a short extract from our title 'The Menu: Memorable Meals from Escoffier at the Ritz to a Suffragettes’ Victory Dinner...' about the origins of this celebration.

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We're celebrating with some Scotland-themed art, including humorous works by Scottish legend, Sir https://t.co/Lr4mAlXxcr

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2022-01-26

For our final post today, here are some etchings by Robert Bryden, depicting scenes from Burns' poems. Can you tell us which poems they are?

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2022-01-26

A Bookbug session for Burns Night.
Available to watch on our YouTube channel now.
https://t.co/4LSdTDAf6m

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2022-01-26

🎇 We’re celebrating with Oskar Kokoschka's beautiful painting of a landscape in Scotland, currently on display at The Courtauld Gallery.

Oskar Kokoschka, Landscape in Scotland - Findhorn River © The Courtauld/DACS 2003

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