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Visiting Scotland for a special event? Would you like to wear a kilt? Well find out how to rock some serious tartan (while preserving your modesty) with our handy guide!

What is it about Robert Burns? Not even Shakespeare is remembered so personally with an annual birthday celebration.

Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet, is loved the world over as the bard of freedom, liberty and the common good of humankind. So it comes as a great shock to many that he once accepted a job to help manage a slave plantation in the West Indies. What is the real story here? How could our Burns, the people's poet, look to become an instrument in what many now call 'The Black Holocaust'?

Scottish actor Sam Heughan, known for his role in the Golden Globe Nominated series Outlander, is helping bring poetry to life this Burns Night.

For World Poetry Day, we put pen to paper

As William Shakespeare is England's national bard so Robert Burns is Scotland's. And over 250 years after he was born into a poor Ayrshire farming family the universal appeal of many of his poems and songs endures.

We remember Burns for many reasons, but we remember him most of all because he asked us simply and poignantly in poem and song to remember and celebrate our common humanity.

A mainstay of Burns Suppers, the Immortal Memory celebrates Burns' enduring spirit. It's a fitting tribute for one who himself did so much to preserve and popularise Scotland's rich historical, cultural and literary heritage.

The Scots language still flows from the mouths of children and adults alike, kept alive in no small way by Burns, and many other Scottish media icons.

A look at the history and continuing popularity of the Burns Supper, the annual celebration of Robert Burns.