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After a long hiatus, I'd like to announce that I'm actively back to writing history again!

Creating a periodic table of SSPCK schoolmasters (by region and locale)

Just a wee reminder that our new workshop series kicks off this Tuesday with a timely keynote about books as resistance in the context of #Jacobite Scotland by Dr Kelsey Jackson Williams. Looking so forward to catching up with this fantastic community!

As much as I HATEHATEHATE to admit it, after trying for years to use snazzy Markdown editors to write academic pieces, I always end up giving up and copy-pasting to a Word Doc. It’s like I need the illusion of it being in print to actually get into it.

Can any1 recall a piece that A MacInnes wrote, wherein he describes the SSPCK as (paraphr) the “KGB of the early modern Gàidhealtachd”? I’m not sure if it’s in an obscure pub, a false memory, or I heard it said out loud but never seen it in print @weegiegraeme.bsky.social @funkyplaid.bsky.social ???

Hello BlueSky! This is the official page for the upcoming conference on James VI & I that will be held in July to mark the quatercentenary of his death👑 Please follow us here for updates & news ...

An exhibition titled ‘Celebrating Scotland’s Landscapes’ opened at Fort George, near Inverness, on 17 January and offers a unique perspective of Scotland by presenting aerial imagery from the National Collection of Aerial Photography (NCAP).

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians & all academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs), tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky (pls boost to any relevant feeds)

A call to Scottish schools to tap into Historic Env Scotland's new learning framework! www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Scotland's coalfields are marked by persistent economic, health and educational inequalities 40 years after the miners' strike. You can hear me on Radio Scotland at 2.06 on the link below discussing The State of the Coalfields report with Tom Adams, a Labour councillor and ex Fife miner.

Holy cheesecrackers. Bookmark this long read and take it in pieces, but it's dead on and full of details and you need to read it: "Rot Economy..A death cult has taken over..using software as a mechanism to extract value at scale in the pursuit of growth at the cost of user[s]."

My PhD thesis is now available online through the University of Leicester repository! 'Sociability, Provincial Antiquarianism and Networks of Knowledge in the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1755'. figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/the...

@kitreid.bsky.social Good to see you here, Kit 😁

Lol. SSPCK right in there with a claim to the forfeited estate of Lovat following his execution. Tbf, he did owe them money (along with half of Scotland)!

Feb 1747: London correspondent (and Aberdonian) Adam Anderson advises SSPCK *not* to publish the computation of the number of Scottish Catholics (c.18,000) found in the seized manuscripts. SSPCK concur and agree to publish simply that there are “in general a great number"

@neildm.bsky.social Lovely to see you on here :)

Nov 1746: SSPCK recorded that Argyllshire militia had seized papers penned by Highland Catholics. One complained of the impact of SSPCK schools on the Catholic Mission. Obviously a PR boon for the SSPCK and appears in their 1748 pamphlet. Does anyone know if this letter is stored/printed anywhere?

3 May 1744. Not too long before the MacDonalds of Glencoe would come out for the Jacobite cause, Chief Alexander MacDonald petitions the SSPCK for a school in Appin, promising accomodation for school and schoolmaster. His request was granted.

Any 18thC historians out there have any info on Albert Munro of Coull? He was a director of the SSPCK 1733–1766. A Kirk elder in Dingwall, I think. Obviously gentry, but quite probably a lawyer as well. Ever come across him @funkyplaid.bsky.social ?

Looking for some Christmas-based joy? I wrote part of the light trail that's illuminating Edinburgh Castle all December & into Hogmanay - all about Edinburgh women's history ofc. So a 🧵of the Edinburgh women who made it onto the big lava walls 👇 /1 archive.is/Vuub3

Always get a few chills reading the speech of Donald MacDonald of Tiendrish (Jacobite rebel in The ’45) from the scaffold.

Our final seminar of 2024 will be on Thursday 5th December when Dr Andrew Mackillop @uofglasgow.bsky.social will speak on 'Corporation, Province, and Empire: Ulster and the English East India Company, c.1700-c.1820' at 6pm. Join us in person or online! www.eventbrite.ie/e/andrew-mac...

My new book, _Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and covenanting in a seventeenth-century Scottish town_ is now available on JSTOR! Though I am realistic about how many people will actually want to read this (lol), it is so lovely to see it made available to a wider group of scholars and students.

@chrislangley.bsky.social yay! Chris is here!

Any other #historian have a delightful little book (Scots: wee bookie) they always find themselves coming back to? This is mine - a timeless book by the late-great Donald Withrington. An under-appreciated academic giant, without whose shoulder I would have been able to write most of my work.

Tonight's pile of books. Yes, still Drag Race on in the background. Thinking about whether Edinburgh-based intervention in Highland schooling actually contributed to the ill-feeling that gave rise to the 1745 Jacobite rising – expectations raised then quashed?

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

Absolutely delighted to see the massive exodus of historians to Bluesky. Read my thesis if it's your bag. My examiners assured me it's good.

And here's what I wrote when I first came here last year about my academic history side. Which is still current and up to date. Despite my progressive neurological disease I am still an active academic, with new academic publications in progress and active historical research projects underway.

Tonight's reading for an essay on education and Jacobitism. Yes that is Drag Race on in the background 😁

Tonight’s exciting activity. Transcribing letters from the Episcopal Chest. This is a 1712 note from Bishop Archibald Campbell, requesting help from the English SPCK to set up Episcopalian schools in the Highlands to counteract Catholicism and legally established Presbyterian Church in the region.

Being a digital hoarder with a decrepit USB-A external HD is really coming back to bite me in the arse today, on new MacBook day of all days

I write in The Spectator about the forgotten connection between fairies and Hallowe’en www.spectator.co.uk/article/hall...

Don’t mind me – just harvesting transcriptions from the excellent new Scottish Privy Council Records website: spcr.ac.uk

New #DigitalHistory resource: Scottish Privy Council Records Database 1692-1708 spcr.ac.uk #History 🗃️

Just realised I've not shared my thesis here! For all interested in education, governance and language use in post-union Scotland. For Gaelic scholars, sociologists, historians of all sorts! theses.gla.ac.uk/81863/

Being treated to a wee spa-hotel trip to Stirling by my beloved. And I've already bought too many books that I'll have to heif hame.

As part of a series on the lives of notable LGBT+ people in 20th century N.Ireland, I wrote about architect, Henry Lynch-Robinson, a flamboyant character who clashed with planners, wrote a pantomime and was mourned by two rival brass bands. www.queerhistoryni.com/blog/henry-l...

Happy Friday! I am now here from The Bad Place website. Looking forward to being in the company of fellow historians, as The Bad Place was before it became The Bad Place. First move: harvest @oldscotbooks.bsky.social's following list 😁