THIS magnificent miners' banner dating from the 1890's and still regularly on display at Beamish Museum, County Durham, is living proof that Robert Burns' values of egalitarianism and radicalism were appreciated outside his native Scotland - even in the days before the internet turned the Bard into a worldwide icon. The Lambton lodge banner - made in the North East of England by SM Peacock of South Shields and featuring the 1787 Alexander Nasmyth portrait of Burns and an image of his Alloway birthplace - is one of three Durham miners' banners of the time to honour the "ploughman poet". However only the giant 10ft x 9ft one (above) is still in existence.