20/01/2026
Join the European Association for Dance History on Burns Night, 29 January 2026, 18:30-19:45. They are offering an online event with two talks:
1. Professor Bob Harris, speaking on "Dance and the Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment"
2. "Dancing in Burns's Time", by Alan Macpherson.
For further information, including how to register:
After the Union of 1707, many Scottish towns seemed slow to change. By the mid‑eighteenth century, however, a new energy began to reshape everyday life. From the 1780s onwards, towns across Scotland experienced rapid cultural transformation, seen not only in new buildings and growing trade, but in...
