The most viewed item over the past nine months has been a wooden box containing the wedding ring of Jean Armour, the poet’s wife, flanked on each side by two other rings which hold pieces of their ...

The Jean Armour supper, named after the “Belle of Mauchline” who became Burns’ wife, is being held on Friday, January 24 at Burns Cottage in Alloway. Almost 200 years after her death ...

Despite more women becoming involved in Burns clubs in recent years, the top table at Burns suppers still tends to be ...

Jean Armour, the wife of Burns, had been horrified at the suggestion her husband’s skull should be removed, not least given he had already been laid to rest twice. Burns’s original grave in St ...

Earlier that year, Burns had contracted an irregular marriage with Jean Armour who was pregnant with the poet's twins. Jean Armour's parents disapproved of the union and took steps to dissolve it ...

This poem, written in early 1786, most likely refers to Jean Armour’s brother (b. 1771), who was one of a group of boys in Mauchline who punished a local prostitute by making her ‘ride the ...

Burnsians are being invited to a supper celebrating the lives of the women in Robert Burns’ life. The Jean Armour supper, named after the “Belle of Mauchline” who became Burns’ wife, is being held on ...