Want to be part of Paisley Museum? Join us Wed, Aug 28th, 9am - 5pm at Paisley Piazza! We’re taking portraits of people to to feature in a new digital display. Your photo could be featured in our AV show! Pop by, it only takes a couple of minutes! Image: Museum red drum entrance

Good to see the special Race & Racism cross-journal issue out from Edinburgh University Press Including contributions from Burns Chronicle Arun Sood & Innes Review SCHA Stephen Mullen John Reuben Davies Ronnie Young Well done all! euppublishing.com/cjsf/race-and-…

Well that's the last time I ever donate to charitable causes via JustGiving £5.17 'tip' - absolute shysters.

Going to need a new Adam Smith coaster

Our new exhibition Beyond Burns previews on #doorsopen 7-8 Sept. Explores the fascinating lives of those who made Ellisland home in the centuries after the poet left. Supported by #hessupported #PostcodeLotteryPeople MuseumsGalleriesScot The Holywood Trust Info- ellislandfarm.co.uk/beyond-burns-n…

My forthcoming talk on Walter Scott & Muriel Spark. Just as well you get wine & a can of apes for your 20 squid😆 walterscottclub.com/events

On way to east end yesterday, passed my old office, 1995-2000. & stopped to admire the Tennent's sculpture & pic of Boabby the Barman😆

Enjoyable today to record a podcast on Influences on Burns with Jackie Bird, Nick Low whom I've known since the 80s (bloody hell!) & National Trust for Scotland Birthplace Museum Ramsay, Fergusson, Lady Don, Robt Riddell etc etc Pauline Mackay MP Robert Burns Ellisland Museum & Farm

Nice to see this rightly approving review The Tablet Linden Bicket but the image of 'William Dunbar' did make laugh

The 2nd pat Reilly Memorial lecture below, with Rebekah Lamb eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-henry-n… SCHA The Tablet Archdiocese of Glasgow

A pleasure tonight to attend talk by Iain Glennie on digitised archives of Brigton Burns Club. Burns Studies University of Glasgow played a small part at start of project Such associational history so richly important!

Lovely day here at UofGARC & interviewing for our fully funded PhD scholarship on Robt Burns & Freemasonry 5 excellent candidates: this will not be easy.

Nice write up of our new exhibition Robert Burns Ellisland Museum & Farm Looking forward t being onsite on 10th Sept! heraldscotland.com/news/24552650.…

In Edina for 40th of Scottish Poetry Library: Scottish Poetry Library. Reminded of some of the roots of modern cultural Scotland Allan Ramsay was an Edinburgh Festival all of his own 😆 MP Asif Khan

Thanks to Asif Khan for the invite to celebrate 40 years of the Scottish Poetry Library at Edinburgh Castle- was great to see Gerard Carruthers and Ann Gow and Sean McNamara and Martyn Wade

How canonicity works Robert Fergusson (1750-74) Burns Scotland R.L. Stevenson

Clyde crossings, old and newer, and newer again to come!

A fine day in Dalmuir & Old Kilpatrick, hearing about James McCune Smith & Frederick Douglas associations with the area.

Moira Hansen & I privileged to have a chapter in this great-looking volume. Our chapter deals with Burns & Alexander Wilson Paisley Museum Paisley Philosophy edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-law-equit…