Old Edinburgh Reborn has a new blog. The Luckenbooths - a gem rediscovered. A project funded by the Old Edinburgh Club. #luckenbooths #stgilescathedral #williamcreech #oldtolbooth #parliamentsquare #edinburghsfirstshoppingcentre #highstreetofedinburgh

A new walking guide of the Union Canal is now available to download from our website. #unioncanal #edinburghwalks #porthopetoun #lochrin #tollcross #fountainbridge #edinburghsindustrialpast #canalwalks

Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with @nicolaparsons.bsky.social and at Glasgow with me. Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships.... Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.

Our next lecture will take place on Tuesday 21 April 2026 at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, London, and online via Zoom. Matthew Payne, Keeper of the Muniments at Westminster Abbey (also Treasurer and a Vice-President of the Society) will deliver the Graham Pollard memorial lecture.

Enjoyed presenting work on the John Watson's Institution Archive at the Signet Library with @lixmount.bsky.social and @johockey.bsky.social AND my 'Book Borrowing Surgeons' at the @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social Jean Guild Grants Showcase yesterday. Some truly illuminationg, interesting, and...

Tonight is the Jean Guild Award showcase of the excellent Old Edinburgh Club. Worth joining if only for online access to The Book of The Old Edinburgh Club, published since 1908

Not all books are destined to be best sellers, but this one, my first, means a lot to me. And it has a birthday this month! www.kgbaston.co.uk/2026/04/10/h... ✒️📖

One of the better afternoons of my life was spent in reading the final draft of @kgbaston.bsky.social 's book "Charles Areskine's Library: Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment". Kit writes about this fantastic book 10 years on: www.kgbaston.co.uk/2026/04/10/h...

Not all books are destined to be best sellers, but this one, my first, means a lot to me. And it has a birthday this month! www.kgbaston.co.uk/2026/04/10/h... ✒️📖

VACANCY: 30 month Postdoctoral researcher in Legal History (ERC Consolidator Grant IsThisFrench) (Bordeaux: Université de Bordeaux) [DEADLINE 16 APR 2026] esclh.blogspot.com/2026/04/vaca...

The Bibliographical Society is delighted to announce the launch of a redesigned version of the London Book Trades Database, details of which are in this month’s Council’s Choice: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

George Buchanan’s Afterlives: Borrowings of Buchanan’s Works in Scottish Libraries, c.1750–1840 14 May, Stirling – free (suggested donation £5) Prof Katie Halsey traces how George Buchanan’s works were borrowed & read in Scotland across the #C18th & early #C19th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evening-ta...

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Read the blog post by the co-editor of Library & Information History, Jill Dye! @jilld17.bsky.social

This! It's usually the way to make anything on academic publishing. I've made *something* every year since I joined @alcs.co.uk and, beyond the cash, it's always gratifying to see the download to know that things I published are being used. Especially since I'm an independent scholar these days!

What a fantastic day of Scottish History awaits! Join us on 28th March for our conference, AGM and presidential lecture. Free to members, £6 non-members Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/scott... Please share!

Wear feathers, but don't bring your dog! Great weekend fun suggestions here:

200 years of Edinburgh football: #OTD 20 March 1826, a receipt to John Hope for the rental of Dalry Park, for archery in summer and his Foot-Ball Club in winter. The club - the world's first - was founded in 1824 and played on one of the fields near Dalry House.

The #AcademyAwards are upon us, & no-one is sure how the #Oscars got their name. Bette Davis’s first husband? Margaret Herrick’s uncle? But “Oscar” – a name from ancient #Gaelic legend – owes its modern popularity to James Macpherson’s #C18th “Ossian” poems #romanticism 1/5 🖼️ from CHATTERBOX (1890)

We're delighted to be welcoming Prof. Abigail Williams to CEMS on 18th March. She'll be delivering a talk on the reading practices of non-elites in the long eighteenth century. Join us if you can. Full details below! 18 March, 17:30 kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/in-th...

Happy 140th birthday @glasgowunisrc.bsky.social! 🍰 Find out more about what the SRC are doing to mark this milestone, including their contributions to 'Glasgow Makes People: 575 Years of Student Life', a new exhibition coming to the Library: www.glasgowunisrc.org/whatson/src-... #SRC140 #TeamUofG

Another day, another 'you've been unsuccessful and your application won't be progressed' email. 😞 #OpenToWork www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kit... #ShyBairnsGetNowt

Uncover the city mapped by medicine in our new temporary exhibition in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh City of Medicine: 300 years of Edinburgh Medical School will open on Friday 3 April. museum.rcsed.ac.uk/the-collecti...

Lots of #BookHistory action happening in Edinburgh later this month (20-27 March) with 'Rare Books Edinburgh 2026' - maybe see you at some of these events? rarebooksedinburgh.com 📖📚

⚠️ Attn #Glasgow folks! 🚨 Come along to my new talk focusing on the Patrons of Charles Rennie #Mackintosh - Catherine Cranston, Walter Blackie and William Davidson. Next Sunday #IWD 8 March 2026 @1pm at Mackintosh Tearooms on Sauchiehall Street, £8 booking info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-on-...

Call for Contributors! Writing the Industrial Revolution brings together short illustrated essays on industrial change and its cultural consequences in Britain, circa 1770–1830. We'd love to hear from other researchers who'd like to contribute an essay. Please see ⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6341

With all the excitement around curling recently I thought I’d look out a couple of related limited-edition books from the 1880s that we currently have in stock and available from our website.

📢In partnership with St Andrews University, we're looking for a 'Joseph Bell Writer in Residence at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh' to pursue a writing project drawing on our archives. Stipend of up to £15,000. Closing date 6 March 2026. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

He saw the weather written on the pane as he buckled on his gaiters, shouldering the hammer to walk the lane spooked with his breath, to the pond at the extremity of his acres… —Lorn Macintyre, “Bonspiel” published in Snowball in Summer (Argyll, 2009) #poem #poetry #curling #WinterOlympics 🥌

Our next talk from the OEC is by Ray Perman on the Geologist James Hutton. Often referred to as the 'Father of Modern Geology', he played a key role in establishing geology as a modern science. Tickets are available for non-members on Eventbrite. #edinburghgeology #salisburycraggs buff.ly/7CCgLS1

We’ve filled the shelves back up and the special sale in the shop continues until the end of February! Buy 3 or more books at once and get 20% off.

Gutted for Jen and Bruce! But they'll be back with more chances for #TeamGB: www.radiotimes.com/tv/sport/win... 🥌🇬🇧

Signet Library followers will be familiar with the work of our conservator, @johockey.bsky.social , who has created a new website bringing together both her Signet Library research and conservation work - it's at johockey.substack.com

An hour away from Jen and Ben's Mixed Doubles Curling Bronze Medal match - we've a new online exhibition on the literature of Scotland's Ain Game - see our new blogpost about it at www.wssociety-heritage.co.uk/2026/02/10/s...

Looking forward to talking about #Heiresses with Nasra Elliott of the International Slavery Museum at The Athenaeum in #Liverpool on Thursday 4th March, 5pm. Thanks for the invite @csis-liverpool.bsky.social Book your FREE ticket now.. www.ticketsource.co.uk/csis/csis-pr...

A reminder that this online talk takes place on the 11th Feb if you want to join in.

Starting the week with peer review comments to deal with on a piece that's seemingly eternal. (Time-consuming and unpaid work - but good for my 'research active' profile!) Only one typo to fix, though, which is good.

We’ll be joined by @shonamaclean.bsky.social on Wednesday 4th March to celebrate the Edinburgh launch of The Cromarty Library Circle! She’ll be in conversation with fellow writer Elaine Thomson. 📚 Sign up here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/shona...

WEBSITE SALE: If you can’t get into our shop for our shop sale, don’t feel left out - we also have a special discount code for orders on our website, also valid until end February. Use discount code FSL20DGB at checkout for 20% off any order on our website. Go to mcnaughtans.co.uk to browse!

SHOP SALE: we have boxes and boxes of lovely books in storage and need to make some room on the shelves to fit them in the shop. Until the end of February, buy three or more books at once in the shop and get 20% off! The discount will be automatically applied to qualifying purchases at the till.

New on the blog: 'The Curious Case of the Missing Curling Stone' - a Tale from the Session Papers of @signetlibrary.bsky.social: www.kgbaston.co.uk/2026/02/05/t... #TalesFromTheSessionPapers A curling stone has been missing for three years, but now it's been found. Or has it?

And a DELIGHT to read this review of us! Thank you, @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social ! 😍

Lovely to see this review of @books-borrowing.bsky.social! I'm so proud to have been a part of this amazing project. 📖 borrowing.stir.ac.uk

On Saturday the 21st of February the shop will be open all the way through the night as we're fundraising to pay our bills! We'll be switching over to a purple ink stamp for the night shift featuring a time stamp so you can prove you were chilling in a bookshop at 3am. Stay tuned for more details...

We recently finished the research phase of our project on the archive of John Watson's Institution funded by the @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social Jean Guild awards. Dive in here: www.wssociety-heritage.co.uk/2026/02/02/t... Research by @kgbaston.bsky.social and @johockey.bsky.social

New on my blog, 'The Bibliotheca Polonica at the Signet Library, 1821-1962': www.kgbaston.co.uk/2026/01/3 part of @signetlibrary.bsky.social's annual online exhibition: www.wssociety-heritage.co.uk/1890-2/

Celebrating Burns Night with 5/5! 😏

Lovely story of Raeburn's lost but now found portrait of Robert Burns - just in time for Burns Night! www.youtube.com/watch?v=StBu... The portrait is on display at the National Gallery of Scotland @nationalgalleries.bsky.social from today.

A gentle reminder that this takes place tomorrow! We'll be talking about our favourite Minerva Press novels and why you should read them, too!

Indeed tells me: 'It may take time for [employer] to review applications, but you can stand out by sending a message to confirm your interest.' Is this a good idea? Won't they resent having to read a message from me when they're busy taking in more applications? (I'd be annoyed by this. Just me?) 😕