The public and private personas of Robert Burns

This Burns night, explore collection materials that offer insights into the formal and informal sides of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, from the comfort of your home.

Curators and librarians from the National Library of Scotland and the Mitchell Library in Glasgow will discuss the print collections, manuscripts, and letters of the Bard.

A Zoom link will be sent out to all attendees an hour before the event.

Biographies

Robert Betteridge is the curator of Eighteenth-Century Printed Collections at the National Library of Scotland.

Ralph McLean is the curator of the Long Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Collections at the National Library of Scotland.

Susan Taylor is a Special Collections Librarian at the Mitchell Library.