Hundreds gathered at Porchester Hall in Westminster to celebrate the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns on Burns Night.
The event, organised by The Ceilidh Club, was one of many across the weekend, with Burns Night falling on Sunday 25 January.
Attendees were taught how to ceilidh, a traditional Scottish dance, and treated to a plateful of haggis, neeps and tatties.
The Ceilidh Club was founded by Ed McCabe in 1998, inspired by a local dancing club near his halls of residence at the University of Strathclyde.
He said: “It was started to see where people were at the end of the nineties.
“We’d had 10 years of club culture, and [ceilidh] is very opposite to that in many ways, so I just thought it’d be a nice experiment.”
Watch below to see why McCabe thinks Burns Night has kept its appeal after more than 200 years.
Featured image credit: Alfie Sansom
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