This is a mock epitaph for William Muir (1745-1793), a miller in Tarbolton who proved to be a good friend to the Burnes family. When Jean Armour was thrown out by her family in March 1788 it was ...

Adieu! a heart-warm, fond adieu! Dear brothers of the mystic tye! Ye favour'd, ye enlighten'd Few, Companions of my social joy! Tho' I to foreign lands must hie, Pursuing Fortune's slidd'ry ba ...

The Bachelors’ Club, in Tarbolton, South Ayrshire ... In the late 1700s it was a hub of male social activity where Scotland’s Bard Burns became a freemason, learnt to dance and created ...