A farm built by Robert Burns and where he wrote Auld Lang Syne ... Ellisland Farm on the banks of the River Nith in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, was built by Scotland’s Bard in 1788 for ...

For Armistice Day we present Robert Burns's most scathingly anti war 'protest ... Yet he was not a strict pacifist and served with the Dumfries Militia. Indeed, contrary to his unambiguous ...

Or Candlemas, as Burns would have called it. Tax returns were due to be filed by the end of January. Those late with their accounts and liable therefore to pay a penalty to the Inland Revenue may ...

The loyal Natives were formed in January 1793 and were among the more reactionary of the Dumfries citizenry. They unwisely produced verses lampooning Burns and other radicals, which provoked a ...

The historic Dumfries church where Robert Burns and his family worshipped – and has his final resting place – has launched a £25,000 fundraising appeal. It coincides with an annual ...

Our poem today bears the date July 27th, 1788. It was composed shortly after Burns took up the leasehold on Ellisland, the Dumfries farm where he set up home with Jean Armour and their children.

Robert Burns had been born on a farm; he was not to die on one ... The momentous decision to flit to nearby Dumfries, was made on this day in 1791. The yield of Ellisland could not provide ...

This was written for Mr George S Sutherland who was the manager of the Dumfries Theatre for the occasion ... with the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh. Burns appears to have been a fan as he wrote ...

A record 300 primary and secondary pupils from across Dumfries and Galloway will pay tribute to Robert Burns tomorrow (Saturday, February 15) in verse, song or playing the bagpipes or another ...