New Collection, edited by Dr. Leith Davis (Simon Fraser University) and Dr. Kevin J. James (University of Guelph), "Shaping #Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks" is a multidisciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

New Collection 30% Discount with code NEW30! Shaping #Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks, a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism's cultural legacy from the 1688 Revolution to #Outlander @edinburghup.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

@lyoninmourning.bsky.social would like to congratulate Dr. Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society!

“Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time […] Communication may be made in broken words, the business of life be carried on with substantives alone; but that is not what we call literature…” —Robert Louis Stevenson, ESSAYS IN THE ART OF WRITING

Very excited that my book is now available to read via Bloomsbury Open Access! 🎉 Can't wait to receive my physical copies 📘 Pre-order for your library and/or read it now here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... @scotlit.bsky.social @timothycbaker.bsky.social @bendoyle.bsky.social

6/10 “The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript, held by @natlibscot.bsky.social, contains conversations, narratives, poems, songs, letters & more, relating to the 1745 rising. From 2023: Prof @drleith.bsky.social discusses the @lyoninmourning.bsky.social project findings www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s-...

A talk by author @sarasheridan.bsky.social for the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. Sara’s own historical novels include The Fair Botanists, set in Enlightenment Edinburgh, & The Secrets of Blythswood Square, set in Victorian Glasgow www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfqk...

Gorgeous day in Aberdeen at the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University, chatting all things Robert Fergusson. 🌞

In Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood, there was (& I hope still is) a Victorian device built to horrify, edify, & entertain the young… When you deposit your coin, mechanical puppets re-enact the grizzly story of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber #WyrdWednesday www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee1S...

“Borderlands are sites of mystery, but they are also theatres where, as often as not, tragedy unfolds… where the dead still linger and the living come, on special occasions, to grieve.” —“Borderlands”, by John Burnside www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/bord...

Hello to our new followers! As a scholarly publishing society, the SRS publishes critical editions of Scottish manuscript records, promoting access around the globe. Each year a new volume comes out, with copies sent to members. To join or to buy volumes: www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/

A’ Ceangal Chruinneachaidhean: Beul-Aithris Ghàidhlig | Connecting Collections: Gaelic Oral Tradition 26 Feb @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, free Exploring Gaelic oral tradition through handwritten manuscripts & audio recordings from the 18th century to the present www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-ceangal-...

I've giving a free online public talk tomorrow (Feb. 8) for the Scottish American History Forum. Looking forward to talking about Jacobitism and Cultural Memory. Bright and early: 8 am PT. #jacobites, #memorystudies and #18th-c media chicagoscots.org/event/scotti...

Jacobitism & Cultural Memory, 1688–1830 8 Feb, free online Prof @drleith.bsky.social will discuss her new book, JACOBITISM & CULTURAL MEMORY, 1688–1830. The talk is free to join & aimed at a general public audience chicagoscots.org/event/scotti...

Yesterday, I gave presentation about my Burns book to the University of Mainz’s Scottish Hub. The presentation is now on YouTube. Link ⬇️

In a fortnight at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. A great honour (and surprise) to be asked by @asls.org.uk to deliver the lecture. Join us for a celebration of Douglas Young, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Willie Neill, and others whose work brought Gaelic and Scots closer in new ways.

Walter Scott’s LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY & WITCHCRAFT (1830): an accused witch confesses – after torture – that she & others “charmed a cat by certain spells, having four joints of men knit to its feet, which they threw into the sea to excite a tempest” #WyrdWednesday www.gutenberg.org/files/14461/...

(Re)collecting Jacobites in Robert Forbes’s “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript 15 Feb, @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social – free Prof @drleith.bsky.social discusses material in “The Lyon in Mourning” related to Jacobite men & women who would be otherwise lost to history www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-tal...

We’re thrilled to announce our research event on Scottish and Irish Gothic on 11 April, with a keynote by Claire Connolly and a fabulous lineup of speakers. We look forward to welcoming you. Full details and registration below: www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/scottish-and...

The longlist for the 2024 Highland Book Prize/Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd has been announced. The award celebrates poetry, fiction, & non-fiction that comes from the landscape & culture of the Scottish Highlands & Islands. www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/2024-longlist/

CFP: Cultures of Care in Scottish Women’s Writing Special issue of SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW ed. by Dr @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social & Dr @ainsley76.bsky.social Please send abstracts for consideration by 30 January 2025 Full details below

The grey roots circle thee, who never knew At any hour within thy travels lone A human shape but mine… —Olive Fraser, “The Adder of Quinag” A poem for the #YearoftheSnake 🐍 www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/adder-q...

Lyra Celtica: Harry Josephine Giles on Wilfion 19 Feb, Edinburgh – free Harry Josephine Giles & special guests explore the work & legacy of genderweird Celtic Revival writer Fiona Macleod / William Sharp (1855–1905) – known as “Wilfion” by their wife www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lyra-celti...

Ruthless marginalia sighting of the day:

On the subject of #Bookhistory valentines, I do have a soft spot for this 19th century Glasgow example eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b1655... (read more about these here: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...)

Me reading 'Bardic Nationalism' and thinking about English efforts to cleanse Irish Catholics of their language and faith and thinking about how Protestants and Catholics did the same to Indigenous people in Canada through residential schools. earlycanadianhistory.ca/2021/11/15/t...

Thanks for all the kind messages after yesterday's wobble. 💙 The “Heart Book” from c.1550 is a collection of 83 Danish love ballads collected at the court of King Christian III. It's the oldest known Danish manuscript of its kind, and an early example of the heart signifying romantic love.

Robert Burns: Mythbusters 31 Jan, free online In this season of Burns celebrations, Dr Peter Kormylo will deliver an “Immortal Memory” with the above title, complemented by recitations by Hanna Dyka of selected Burns poetry in Ukrainian translations llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...

The Bard of Contention: Robert Burns & Scottish Cultural Politics 4 Feb, free online @paulmalgrati.bsky.social explores the transformations of Burns’s image in the late modern era, as revolutionaries, nationalists, & avant-garde writers co-opted his myth www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scot...

Excited to share that my new book, Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1830 with @CambridgeUP's Elements series is available for free download for the next 72 hours. Written with non-specialists in mind as well as Jacobite scholars. #jacobites #18th-c www.cambridge.org/core/element...

#ScottishHistory #Jacobites #eighteenthcentury #ScottishStudies

George Douglas Brown (1869–1902) was born #OTD, 26 Jan – best known for his 1901 novel THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS: “…the TRAINSPOTTING of its day… an angry young man’s response to the misrepresentation of contemporary Scottish life” A 🎂 🧵 1/5 list.co.uk/news/39535/g...

Scotland's dying art of traditional nicknames. I saw huge numbers of similar nicknames recorded in the 17th century local court records for Melrose in the Scottish Borders. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@erskineproject.bsky.social website now features an overview of content related to Robert Burns in Erskine's seven Scottish magazines: erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/topics/rober.... More on the coverage, and on the stooshie Erskine caused by his Immortal Memory in Eastbourne in 1934, coming soon.

@byleaveswelive.bsky.social asked Janette Ayachi, @victoriamcnultygla.bsky.social, @susibriggsauthor.bsky.social & Morag Anderson to write new poems reflecting on Robert Burns. Giving voices to the women in Burns’s life & work was a common theme www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/the-trysting...

Anither faimily link tae Burns. Ma mither grew up in Mauchline near the box works, sae I stertit a wee collection o Mauchline wear. Here’s twa wi a Burns connection.

very excited about seeing fellow Jacobite studies colleagues at the upcoming "Writing Jacobites" conference at the University of Aberdeen

Agreed, only on my list is Katie Trumpener's "Bardic Nationalism" for my comps exam, which is way better than the news.

Another great #CFP for our followers - please share. #WomensHIstory

Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an’ a’ that; The coward slave—we pass him by, We dare be poor for a’ that! For a’ that, an’ a’ that, Our toils obscure an’ a’ that, The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, The Man’s the gowd for a’ that. —Robert Burns #BurnsNight poets.org/poem/mans-man

Such an important area of research: Scottish Studies and the environment

Looking forward to screening this for my students and having a chat with the filmmakers in March. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

a Burnsian "blast o' Janwar' win'" indeed!

We are really excited to be bringing out _Shaping Jacobitism_ at the end of August. The contributions are multidisciplinary and all fascinating -- and the cover alone is worth waiting for!

New book in CUP's 'Elements in Eighteenth-Century' series and it's authored by our own @drleith.bsky.social: "Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1820," will be available on Jan. 27. Congratulations, Dr. Davis! #Jacobite #Scottish #EighteenthCentury www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The annual Craig Sharp Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dr Arun Sood this Saturday at our conference. Tickets and details can be found 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for... #CRBSconference #robertburns

“Erskine (1869–1960) may come across as one of the eccentric, larger-than-life personalities involved in the whirlwind of political initiatives & small magazines […] However, his magazines played a vital role in the development of modern Gaelic fiction, drama, & journalism” saha.scot/six-reasons-...

I'm going to be talking about some new work at the "Legal Imaginaries" symposium at the ANU next week and looking forward to learning a lot from the interdisciplinary work on law and literature that is going on across Asia and the Pacific events.humanitix.com/legal-imagin...

We’re incredibly thankful to launch our new Virtual Workshop Series this Tuesday with a keynote from Dr Clare Loughlin, who will be sharing some valuable background and reflection on the University of Aberdeen's venerable role in the advancement of #JacobiteStudies. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

Fantastic news! Many congratulations to Peter/Pàdraig! A fine recognition for the excellent Gaelic writing currently produced in Scotland. Can’t wait to see what Peter will do with this! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 news.stv.tv/scotland/poe...