Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics

Paul Malgrati is a Franco-Scottish Lecturer of Northern Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands. He is the author of two books: a scholarly monograph, Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics. The Bard of Contention (1914-2014) (EUP, 2023), and a book of verse in Scots, Poèmes Ecossais (Blue Diode, 2022).

We interviewed Paul for our podcast Fifty-Six Degrees North two years ago – you can listen again HERE.

His book Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics. The Bard of Contention just came out in paperback, which gave an opportunity for him to give the talk below …

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