The Leverhulme Trust has teamed up with @britishacademy.bsky.social to produce Confessions of an Early Career Researcher, a new podcast by ECRs for ECRs. Tune in now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/... Read more about this collaboration: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/confess...

Pleased to receive @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social’s brilliant collection of poems responding to Robert Fergusson, the bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. I’m also glad to have a wee Franco-Scots piece in there (riffing on Fergusson’s Jacobite/apocalyptical eclogue, ‘The Ghaists’). 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🎆It's out!🎆 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson is out NOW! Check out our blog post for more info about the publication, about our wonderful Glasgow launch on Wednesday and for the link to buy your own copy! robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/publication-...

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Conférence – Inauguration du programme EURETES « Consommations, marchés, cultures matérielles. Ve-XVIIIe siècles » rmblf.be/2025/09/16/c...

A detail from: “The White Rose and the Red Rose” the 1902 panel by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. A beautiful print to be enjoyed always: duille.com/whiteroseturin

“Marion Bernstein has a good claim to being the greatest Scottish feminist we’ve never heard of” 🎂 Happy birthday Marion Bernstein (1846–1906), born #OTD, 16 Sept. Discover her life & work in A SONG OF GLASGOW TOWN (ASL, 2013) #C19th #WomenWriters #poetry 1/2 asls.org.uk/publications...

The call for submissions & nominations for the 2025 Jack Medal is open until 30 November. We welcome articles & chapters on subjects related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic, and Latin). scotlit-iassl.org/awards/the-j...

This event was such a joy. An array of brilliant poets responding to the poet’s poet, Robert Fergusson. More launches are on the way, so join us to hear some great new poetry and remember Fergusson. You can order a copy from Taproot Press by following the link 👇 #ScottishLiterature #18thC 📖

Happy Birthday to Robert Fergusson, born #OTD 275 years ago! For more info on what we've been up to on Project Fergusson as the official end of the project approaches, see our website: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk We've got online exhibitions, other resources, project updates and much more!

Poet Robert Fergusson was born #OTD in 1750. At #ProjectFergusson, we're working on a new edition of his works. You'll find an online exhibition, details of a poetry collection responding to Fergusson's life, works and legacies and much more besides on our website! robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk

We’re really pleased that our Robert Fergusson exhibition, initially held at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library last year, is now available online. If you weren’t able to visit last year, click along and remember Robert Fergusson with us 👇

OOOOOOOOH, news of our third Jenny Wormald Lecture has dropped just in time for the weekend. Are you excited? See more information below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-h...

Timeline 28: 1982 - Following the breakout success of Lanark Alasdair joined with Liz Lochhead & Tom Leonard to perform a review for the Edinburgh Fringe. Lanark wins the Frederick Niven Award. The prize money was substantial, but Alasdair donated it all to the miners’ strike 💪🏽

Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress

📢 Women’s History Scotland Conference Registration open! Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland and the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture given by @vawright10.bsky.social 🗓 Saturday 13 Sept 2025, Kinning Park Complex Book here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...

“To have a great primitive black crag rising up in the middle of populated streets of commerce, stately squares and winding closes, is like the statement of an unmitigated fact preceded by ‘nevertheless’.” Muriel Spark in What Images Return.

Just spent a gorgeous afternoon in Lanark watching a new performance penned by the brilliant Martin Travers for the equally brilliant Braw Clan, the Scots Language Theatre Group. If you haven’t heard of Braw Clan, you must! Find out more about their excellent work here: brawclan.com

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic,' in-person one-day workshop at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, 5 September. Speakers include IASSL members Rob Dunbar, @pomuirch.bsky.social, and Silke Stroh. All welcome, registration required.

Looking forward to this halesome tribute to Robert Fergusson, the Jacobite bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. Thanks to @rhonabrown.bsky.social @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for featuring a wee piece of mine and more importantly for linking scholarship and contemporary poetry in a way that’s only too rare still!

🚨 New publication from Project Fergusson! In this collection, emerging and established poets respond to the life and afterlives of 18thC Edinburgh poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-74). We’re delighted with this, and hope you will be too. Details of our book launches to come, so please watch this space 🚨

🚨 @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the publication on 1 September of a new collection of poems in response to Robert Fergusson's life, works, and legacies, published with the brilliant Taproot Press! You can pre-order the book here: taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...

The new Scottish Literary Review is out on Project Muse! A Special Issue, guest edited by Gioia Angeletti and Marina Dossena, it features articles on Early Modern ScotLit, Mary, Queen of Scots, Scottish Picturebooks, migration writings and drama. You can access it here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55288

This ensemble illustrates the underwear worn by stylish women in the late 18th century for #NationalUnderwearDay. To achieve the fashionable silhouette, a woman would wear a shift, stays reinforced with whalebone, and hoops to shape their petticoats. V&A collection. #Fashionhistory

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

A tribute to Sir Kenneth Calman Sir Kenneth Calman was a doctor, academic and University leader who achieved more “firsts” than virtually anyone in his generation in medicine, public service and the third sector. Read more: gla.ac/457j99J

So, the book has a cover, thanks to the kindness of Colin Davidson. Out in January 26 with some events in Ireland the end of February, start of March. Will be available in the US slightly later. Thanks to you all for encouragement along the way. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

BOOK NOW - 25 spaces for PGR researchers for a FREE WORKSHOP with @rodgeglass.bsky.social & @sorchadallas.bsky.social supported by @sgsah.bsky.social 🗓️ 16.08.25 10am-2pm 📍AGA - Support for travel and access costs - Lunch included 🎫 booking essential via [email protected]

'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh announces the launch of a new website, The People’s Dispensary featuring a digitised and transcribed collection of 18th century case notes of the Edinburgh Public Dispensary from its foundation in 1776. buff.ly/UzShOzg

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

The podcast of David Olusoga and I discussing Empire & the rewriting of history: howtoacademy.com/podcasts/dav...

#OTD 1505 the Surgeons and Barbers of Edinburgh united and were formally incorporated as a craft guild by the Town Council. Happy birthday to us, we’re 520 years old!

Shout out to the INS staff @thinkuhi.bsky.social HISA awards....Highly Commended Most Inspiring Lecturer Dr Paul Malgrati and nominated Above & Beyond Staff Award Dr Andrew Lind.

First post on Bluesky 🤞: I’m really looking forward to this week’s Transatlantic Literary Women symposium, led by the brilliant @shelbyjudge.bsky.social There’s still time to join us: transatlanticladies.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/t...

Very excited to share a stage with some amazing women @edbookfest.bsky.social Rosemary Goring, Kate Anderson and I will be discussing Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI under the expert care of Anna Groundwater on 20 Aug #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival

Here’s my review of David Kinloch’s new play, based on the life of Ester Inglis, the Franco-Scottish miniaturist. The play is entirely in Scots and weaves textuality, multilingualism, national and gender politics beautifully. @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2025/06/26/i...

Project Fergusson is in the archives at the University of St Andrews, Robert Fergusson's alma mater! We've enjoyed walking in his steps and finding out more about his student days. He was a very naughty boy! More to come on www.robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk...

My seventy-seven-year-old father put his reading glasses on to help my mother do the buttons on the back of her dress… —“George Square”, by Jackie Kay LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005 Hear Jackie Kay read this poem on the @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social: poetryarchive.org/poem/george-...

Enjoyed hosting this panel discussion yesterday on the subject of "Boys & English: why are young men turning away from our subject?", hosted by @englishassociation.bsky.social: youtu.be/YYNaIUPM2-Q?...

Such a backward step… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Scottish Languages Bill has passed and so, under its auspices, the Scots language will become an 'official' language of Scotland. I've written a wee blog here about why, despite this, the Scottish Parliament doesn't actually seem all that committed to Scots. www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...

We’re proud to announce that Glasgow Women’s Library is now officially recognised as a Library of Sanctuary — the first in Scotland 🎉📚 This honour celebrates our long-standing work, creating a welcoming, inclusive space for women — especially those seeking sanctuary.

I am a human being and I exist a human being and a citizen of the world responsible to that world – and responsible for that world —Tom Leonard, “Being a Human Being” First published in PN Review 32 (2005)

Mary-Ann Constantine kicks off the first of our two Curious Travellers panels today at Gilbert White's House in Selborne (@gilbertwhites.bsky.social)

Romanticism teaching post at Edinburgh @uoe-llc.bsky.social. 0.8, 17 months www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH593/e...

FREE EVENT ‘Play with Gray’ an Intertextual Writing Workshop at AGA. 11am-1pm on 18th June. Led by @sgsah.bsky.social researcher Niamh Gordon & @sorchadallas.bsky.social ➡️Writers & non-writers welcome. ➡️Please bring a notepad and pen. ➡️20 places, book via emailing [email protected]

The Long Shadow of Scottish Gothic 31 July, Glasgow – £13.44 Dr @valbold.bsky.social & Prof @liammcilvanney.bsky.social discuss Liam’s new psychological thriller THE GOOD FATEHR, the enduring appeal of Scottish Gothic, & our fascination with the dark side www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-...

There seems to be a very welcome increase in poetry events around Scotland. We'll list as many of them as we hear about: under #ScottishPoetryEvents Main focus will be regular poetry nights, open mics, slams, festival events, group readings. Let us know if you're organising or taking part.