Thomas Blacklock News Today

MANY people struggle to live one satisfying life. Robert Burns lived several. If he’d written a CV, his list of occupations would have included…

Have you ever ventured into the Octagon, which used to be the Queen Mary library, for meetings or lectures and has your eye started wandering around the room? In doing so your gaze may have rested on several busts clinging to the edge of life on the balcony, looking down on us. This week the focus is on Sir Walter Scott. A series by Special Collections Information Assistant Anne Marie McHarg.