Website of the Week (WoW) #142: Robert Burns: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory, 1796-1909
Robert Burns is one of the most commemorated poets of all time, and this project presents a detailed database of Burns monuments worldwide and a web-based classification of the different kinds of Burns-related material culture available commercially or for domestic use. These datasets enable the whole range of images and items used in the transmission of Robert Burns’ reputation into the sphere of cultural memory to be available for study or consultation in one place for the first time.
Robert Burns: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory, 1796-1909
www.gla.ac.uk
