Robert Burns (1759-1796)

A historical outline

In the second half of the 18th century the life of small farm­ers in England as well as in Scotland was hard. The industrial revolution ruined them. Many of them would leave their farms for towns. But some of them would not leave the land on which they were born, but went on ploughing their fields in struggle against the rising forces of capitalism. One of such was the fa­ther of Robert Burns.