Highlight Talk - Dr Lesley Orr

Robert Burns Birthplace Museum

Free Highlight Talk in the Robertson Room at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway.

Robertson Room, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum

<h3>Dr Lesley Orr, Research Fellow at the Centre for Theology and Public Issues, University of Edinburgh, historian, theologian and activist for gender and social justice, Co-convener of the Common Weal think tank and member of the Iona Community. -in reflections on being a distant cousin of Robert Burns examines connected family histories, particularly from Kirkoswald; Burns as a Scottish icon and more generally his significance, as a man and as a poet/song collector, in relation to women – during his lifetime, but also changing perceptions of and about those relations, in the light of changing social and cultural attitudes. </h3>

Highlight Talk - Dr Lesley Orr

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