I have been puzzling over this for a while & thought that it might be worth opening out to the floor to hear some opinions.🙏 What is this medieval marginal figure doing? They are clearly working with some kind of tool on fabric, cloth or skin... any thoughts on what the tool or process might be?🔎

Last minute stocking filler? Scottish history novice or enthusiast? Connecting Scotland’s History can be with you tomorrow 🎉🎄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿join all the other unicorns🦄🎅#luathpress

Last minute stocking filler? Scottish history novice or enthusiast? Connecting Scotland’s History can be with you tomorrow 🎉🎄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿join all the other unicorns🦄🎅#luathpress

Are you in museums or galleries? Do you do Renaissance-era research? Think about applying NOW to the Society for Renaissance Studies award to support such a research project upto £1,000. Deadline 1 December! It could get you to that crucial archive or museum! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...

Connecting Scotland's History is back in stock! Read more about it in this kind review of its previous edition (Scotland Connected) from Donald McCormick in the Scottish Left Review scottishleftreview.scot/book-review-... #Scotland #scottishhistory #history

Catch my thoughts on the BBC MQS codebreakers program on BBC1 Points of View. (I haven’t seen it since away). Lovely to see actual Stewart Scottish specialists interviewed.. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

✨BOOK EVENT✨ 👤 Anna Groundwater 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 📍Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway 📆 1 November ⏰ 10:30am 🎟 buff.ly/fekUapY #AllowayWhatsOn #History #HistoryBook #ScottishHistory #BookEvent

CFP: 18th International Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, & Culture 1–4 July, @bristoluni.bsky.social Deadline: 14 Nov 2025. See link for details 👇 icmrsllc2026.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

I'm kicking off A Blether of Books festival at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum talking Connecting Scotland's History on Saturday 1 November 📙🎉 - tickets in link on bio...! @luathpress.bsky.social #robertburnsnts #ABletheroBooks

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm an Architectural Illustrator from Edinburgh. I visually reconstruct heritage buildings and monuments in #Blender3D guided by archaeology, measured survey data, and by working in collaboration with historians and archaeologists. Website: bobmarshall.co.uk

✨BOOK EVENT✨ 👤 @agroundwater.bsky.social‬ 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 📍Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway 📆 1 November ⏰ 10:30am 🎟 buff.ly/fekUapY #AllowayWhatsOn #History #HistoryBook #ScottishHistory #BookEvent

The KTP is a community-based transcription project, aiming to fully transcribe and eventually publish a critical edition of the Records of the Kirkwall Incorporation of Tailors, 1669-1772. Their minute book, formerly on display in Orkney Museum, is being photographed by @orkneylibrary.bsky.social .

The time is nigh! Another fab programme for the JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop is up and ready to kick off on Tuesday, 2 Sept. Following the keynote launch, we'll have fortnightly sessions on different aspects of Jacobite Studies from a wide range of contributors. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

A reminder that my Connecting Scotlands History #edbookfest event this morning is streamed online, pay what you like! Link below! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thanks to Ronnie Barbour for fun interview @bylines.scot, fab to have such great questions that got at the heart of the book 📚, have a listen!

Ronnie Barbour talks with Anna Groundwater @agroundwater.bsky.social about her book "Connecting Scotland's History: A Scottish History Timeline Linked into 2,000 Years of World History | Bylines Scotland Radio #EdinburghBookFestival

Just spotted #edbookfest bookshelves, three of ‘my’ books close together! 📚Connecting Scotland’s History, Decoding the Jewels and Kate Anderson’s The World of James VI&I in which I’ve a chapter 😊😊 @luathpress.bsky.social @nationalgalleries.bsky.social @sidestone.bsky.social

Great chat with @bylines.scot for their podcast out Saturday! Talking Connecting Scotland’s History into what’s happening in the rest of the world - ahead of my @edbookfest.bsky.social event on Monday! 🗃️🎤Thanks Ronnie Barbour! Find it here... bylines.scot/podcast-2/ Tickets @ bit.ly/3J0amPx

A week to go @edbookfest.bsky.social Slides sent, outfit chosen, pretty excited. Fun fun playing with 2,000 years of our histories! #ConnectingScotlandsHistory Great feature #Edbookfest watch online/catch up! @luathpress.bsky.social #scottishhistory #scotlandhistory #scotland #history #bannockburn

Hi @scotland.co I'd really appreciate a shout-out for my upcoming event @edbookfest.bsky.social on my book Connecting Scotland's History - 18 August - and available to watch online (you decide what to pay!) bit.ly/3J0amPx. Big thanks if you can!

Hi @bylines.scot! I'd really appreciate a shout-out for my upcoming event @edbookfest.bsky.social on my book Connecting Scotland's History - 18 August - and available to watch online (you decide what to pay!) bit.ly/3J0amPx. Big thanks if you can!

Hi @scottishhistory.org I'd really appreciate a shout-out for my upcoming event @edbookfest.bsky.social on my book Connecting Scotland's History - 18 August - and available to watch online (you decide what to pay!) bit.ly/3J0amPx

This week we published a new volume in the Society's Camden series of primary sources: 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' bit.ly/4mtRQgS. This new edition, by Helen Newsome-Chandler, is free to read until 30 September #Skystorians

A week to go @edbookfest.bsky.social Slides sent, outfit chosen, pretty excited. Fun fun playing with 2,000 years of our histories! #ConnectingScotlandsHistory Great feature #Edbookfest watch online/catch up! @luathpress.bsky.social #scottishhistory #scotlandhistory #scotland #history #bannockburn

Watch online! Available live, then on-demand after the event.

Talking ‘Finding Scotland’s Place in World History’ #EdBookFest celebrating new edition of 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📍Venue T, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 18 August ⏰ 11am 🎟 bit.ly/3J0amPx #EIBF #EdBookFest #scottishhistory #Scotland #history #timeline

Tick tock, a fortnight to go! Talking ‘Finding Scotland’s Place in World History’ #EdBookFest celebrating new edition of 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 💃 📍Venue T, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 18 August ⏰ 11am 🎟 bit.ly/3J0amPx #EIBF #EdinburghWhatsOn #EdBookFest #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival

What do these have in common? From Columba to Muhammad, Mary Queen of Scots to Ivan the Terrible ... come hear where Scotland's history links into that of the world! Finding Scotland's Place in World History 18 August! @edbookfest.bsky.social #ScottishHistory #edbookfest @luathpress.bsky.social

It’s arrived! Connecting Scotland’s History! Updated renamed edition of my Scottish history timeline set alongside that of events in British and world histories. Happy to see it here and to be talking it at #edbookfest @edbookfest.bsky.social on 18 August 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎺 @luathpress.bsky.social

Pretty thrilled to be doing this at #EdinburghBookFest celebrating new edition of 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 💃 📍EFI Venue T, Edinburgh Futures Institute 📆 18 August ⏰ 11am 🎟 buff.ly/0KBUaja #EIBF #EdinburghWhatsOn #EdinburghBookFest #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival #EIBF25

✨Edinburgh International Book Festival Event✨ 👤 @agroundwater.bsky.social‬ 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 📍EFI Venue T, Edinburgh Futures Institute 📆 18 August ⏰ 11am 🎟 buff.ly/0KBUaja #EIBF #EdinburghWhatsOn #EdinburghBookFest #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival #EIBF25

Just two weeks until I'll be at Dumfries House for @bozzybookfest.bsky.social, talking with @huntingrebels.bsky.social about Margaret Tudor and Mary Queen of Scots, in a session chaired by @agroundwater.bsky.social . Cannot wait!

Weirdly anonymous site of #maryqueenofscots execution #otd 1587 #Fotheringhay … almost as if the English were embarrassed 🤔

🎉@kbtgalleries maxing their #MQoS offer in 3 locations, the #casket is in good company @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social

Talking Magnificent Mary and the silver casket, Thursday, Kirkcudbright … www.kirkcudbrightgalleries.org.uk/event/re-pre...

Marvel at #EstherInglis work in this fabulous online exhibition @ University of Edinburgh exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

The #Fettercairn jewel & lots more on If Jewels coul Talk with Carol Woolton 😍💍💎 #Renaissance #jewels #Scottish open.spotify.com/episode/4yVQ...

Online exhibition from the University of Edinburgh, Dreams of Darien, on the University's connections to the Darien scheme and the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

NEWS: Scottish Ballet is adding a new full-length narrative ballet about Mary, Queen of Scots to its repertoire. www.alledinburghtheatre.com/scottish-bal... Choreographed by Sophie Laplane, it will premiere at next summer’s Edinburgh International Fest, then a wee Scottish tour. #theatre #ballet

Get to #Kirkcudbright now! The #maryqueenofscots #casket is getting the stellar treatment it deserves. Wonderful exhibition telling its stories @ Kirkcudbright Galleries 👑😍🎉@NtlMuseumsScot