Deadline 17th April, do share with any interested students ☀️📚

Applications are now open for the University of Glasgow International Summer School. There are lots of fantastic humanities projects available this year! I am running a project on 'The History of Witchcraft and Folk Belief in Scotland, c.1560-1736' ... 1/2

The @scotchurchhist.bsky.social essay prize is open! All entries will be considered for publication in the Society’s journal and the winning author will be awarded £500 This year's deadline is 30 July 2026. Full details here www.scottishchurchhistory.org/prize Please share widely :)

The @scotchurchhist.bsky.social essay prize is open! All entries will be considered for publication in the Society’s journal and the winning author will be awarded £500 This year's deadline is 30 July 2026. Full details here www.scottishchurchhistory.org/prize Please share widely :)

Applications are now open for the University of Glasgow International Summer School. There are lots of fantastic humanities projects available this year! I am running a project on 'The History of Witchcraft and Folk Belief in Scotland, c.1560-1736' ... 1/2

🚨🐟 CFP - COLONIAL HINTER-SEAS: A Conference on Subaquatic Resources and Waterside Lives from the Early Modern to the Contemporary, 10-11 August 2026, virtual, Zoom & 19-21 August 2026, in-person, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Details: www.colonialfisheries.com/colonial-hin... 🐟🚨

Q for fellow ECRs, when and/or how did you decide to leave or stay in academia? Looking for any/all reflections :) [Disclosure: prompted by an email notifying me it will take at least 6 weeks to hear if I am shortlisted for a job due to volume of applicants. A fun reminder of the state of things]

Spent most of today so far transcribing 6 pages of a sermon and there another 24 to go. So now I am asking myself two questions, why on earth did 17th century sermons need to be so long (rhetorical, I know that I should know this haha) and why did I decide to work with them? 😅

Are there any Leverhulme Early Career scholars (past or present) on here who might be willing to share their application with me? 🙏

So pleased to have been elected to the @royalhistsoc.org as an Associate Fellow today! It is an honour to join such a fantastic organisation 🤩

Are there any Leverhulme Early Career scholars (past or present) on here who might be willing to share their application with me? 🙏

Today is day 1 of my @srsrensoc.bsky.social Postdoc Fellowship. Excited to get started on my new project 'Animals, the environment & the 'Protestant' worldview in c.17th Scotland' 🐄🌷⛪ Now to make an elaborate to do list for the next few months of research, monograph writing & a whole load more ...

Great to see the latest issue of Scottish Archives in print! I've written a wee something about James VI's Scottish menagerie 🐆 🐪 👑 Looking forward to reading all the other fantastic contributions when my copy arrives!

Congratulations to @nicolemaceira.bsky.social and @serinquinn.bsky.social, SRS Postdoctoral Fellows 2025-2026! We look forward to working with you in the coming year 💫 🎉 🙌🎉 💫 www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-postdoct... #SRSlyGood #Skystorians

Thank you @srsrensoc.bsky.social for this wonderful opportunity to develop my research 🤩 🎉 I cannot wait to get started with my project on Animals, the environment and the ‘Protestant’ worldview in seventeenth-century Scotland

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 THERE ARE STILL A FEW DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER 😃 Join us in Glasgow (or ONLINE) from 9-11 July for an amazing line up of speakers and roundtables, plus much more ... Scan the QR code below or access the link here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

On 9 July we are hosting a workshop on 'Establishing yourself as a PGR' @uofglasgow.bsky.social The event is supported by @sgsah.bsky.social & is open to any PGRs. You don't need to be attending the conference! For full details see below 😀 Text version: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 1 WEEK LEFT TO REGISTER 😃 Join us in Glasgow from 9-11 July (and online!) for an amazing line up of speakers and roundtables, plus much more ... eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Don't forget to register by the 8 June. It is safe to say we are all very excited ... Not only do we have an amazing line-up of speaker panels & roundtables but there will also be 3 fantastic workshops, a concert of Jacobean music & even a James pub-quiz (👑🍺) to enjoy🎉🤯

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 2 WEEKS LEFT TO REGISTER 😃 Join us in Glasgow or Online from 9-11 July for an amazing line up of speakers and roundtables, plus much more ... eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

A couple of weeks left to register! We certainly hope you can join us in Glasgow as this is going to be a fantastic few days 🥳 But don’t worry if you can’t make it to Glasgow, all the panels and roundtables will be available online! Sign up below ⬇️

Plenty of time left to register! Join us in Glasgow or online this July 🤩

Less than 2 months to go until the conference 🥳🥳 Registration will be open until **1 June** www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand... Join us in Glasgow from 9-11 July (or online!) for an amazing line up of speakers and roundtables, plus much more ... RT & feel free to share the programme

We have such a fantastic line up, really excited to see this all come together in July! Registration is open until 1 June and the event will also be online for those who cannot make it to Glasgow 😀

A wee blog about early modern dogs which I wrote for @edinburghup.bsky.social 🐕🐾 euppublishingblog.com/2025/05/12/m...

Want to know more about the place of animals within Reformed thought? Check out my recent article for Scottish Chirch History. Perhaps some reading material to enjoy in all this lovely sunshine ☀️

Featuring a wee something by me 😊 very pleased to see this in print and for it to be free to read!!

Registration for the conference is now open 🥳 There are a number of ticket options and registration will remain open until 1 June. The full programme is available on our website (subject to slight changes) We can't wait to see everyone in July!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

New perspectives on James VI & I: coming up tomorrow, Tuesday 4 March, 5:30 with @nicolemaceira.bsky.social, Steven Reid, Clare Jackson and @kuroshmeshkat.bsky.social Online booking below! #earlymodern

Still time left to sign-up 😊 online attendance available!

The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @vic-de-valois.bsky.social for her conversation with Nicole Maceira Cumming and @cvspragg.bsky.social about their research and the upcoming (July 2025) conference "Understanding James VI&I 400 Years On" 👑 🧵/3

Can't wait until July? Not to worry, there is another exciting James event taking place in Glasgow on 4 March 👑 👀 with @dralexcourtney.bsky.social @nicolemaceira.bsky.social, and other speakers! Sign up for in-person or online attendance here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-vi-a...

To those who have been following our other socials and have joined us here, please do follow and circulate this. We are looking forward to sharing more details on the programme and registration in the coming weeks 🤩

Applications for the University of Glasgow's International Summer School are open. I am offering supervision of projects on both human-animal relationships & early modern witchcraft 🐄 🧙‍♀️ If you have undergraduate students who would be interested then do share this: www.gla.ac.uk/study/visiti...

The 'Understanding King James VI&I' conference now has a BlueSky page. Give us a follow for all updates relating to the conference 😀 More news coming soon ...

The 'Understanding King James VI&I' conference now has a BlueSky page. Give us a follow for all updates relating to the conference 😀 More news coming soon ...

Applications for the University of Glasgow's International Summer School are open. I am offering supervision of projects on both human-animal relationships & early modern witchcraft 🐄 🧙‍♀️ If you have undergraduate students who would be interested then do share this: www.gla.ac.uk/study/visiti...

A quick thing I wrote at the weekend in between being very physically sick, but also sick of racists on the internet. As @drfernriddell.bsky.social kindly shared the other day, I would love to talk to culture journos writing on #AThousandBlows & interested: grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/01/20/a...

Taking 3 weeks of leave was lovely and much needed but its making January hit all the harder 😅 article revisions submitted, postdoc application almost drafted and now just marking, course prep and another pile of stuff to go before teaching resumes next week ...

🗃️fully funded UK-based PhD project on "Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in Early Modern England and France" joint UCL & Wellcome collection, inc UK Home fees, AHRC stipend & additional Wellcome research expense funds for 3.5 years. d-line 31 Jan. more info via:

I have made a starter pack for people interested in Reformation Studies. Please share and comment if you would like to be added! go.bsky.app/9vP56oW

CEMS @ KCL is hosting a conference - Rethinking State and Society in #earlymodern Britain - on 17th Dec. Organised by Dr. Jonah Miller. Come along! Full details and sign up: kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/confe... @hsmurphy.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/43xNSFh Help me add more Scottish history people - reply to be added.

‘Staff are not a burden on the University—they are the core of its educational mission….’ Really important piece of work from UCU Edinburgh critically evaluating the Uni’s statements about its financial position (tl;dr there is money in the banana stand) www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/2eppzf7...

There are so many barriers. Given the cost of living in Oxford I do wonder how many less privileged graduates are even applying for the funding in the first place? I have been put off of applying for postdocs, as even the better paid college fellowships still make it almost impossible to live nearby

Going to commit to my move over to this site. If you might find posts on my research and academic endeavours interesting then do give me a follow. My research interests include early modern animals, hunting, the Scottish Reformation and James VI 😅

Check out the latest GEMMS blog post by @nicolemaceira.bsky.social, one of GEMMS's researchers: "Communion Season in Glasgow and the Surrounding Areas, c.1695-1720: Evidence from the Wodrow Collection" gemmsproject.blogspot.com/2024/04/comm... #earlymodern #17thC #c18th

Did a wee post about Communion sermons 😊

Well it has been excruciating so far (and its all nonsense) but I have 500 words of my thesis introduction and I am taking it as a win 😅

My review of the 2021 'A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland' is featured in the most recent volume of The Scottish Historical Review. A (hopefully) useful overview of the 27 chapters to save others some time! (note to self not to review giant books again) www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...