a wonderful cause to support for those who love Scotland’s history

🎥Watch the 2025 Sue Innes Lecture, now available on our website, where @vawright10.bsky.social explores women-led grassroots campaigns for improved housing across Glasgow during the twentieth century Watch here 👇 womenshistoryscotland.org/news-and-eve... #WomensHistoryMonth #ScottishHistory

Please help spread the word #medievalsky! Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

Scholarship for Canadian students doing a graduate degree at Lincoln in the UK: great place for medieval history!

This month we’re spotlighting Dr Lucy R. Hinnie, Wikimedia & Open Knowledge Adviser at Open Research Leeds. Lucy supports researchers and students to share their expertise openly on Wikimedia, a great example of how universities can strengthen knowledge equity! Thank you Lucy for all your work 🙌

🚨NEW Blogpost🚨 We all know about the #OldFirm. But what's the 'oldest firm' in the history of Scottish #football? ⚽🏉 The answer takes us back to #medieval and #earlymodern St Andrews, where university and city invested in an unlawful game. 👇 ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/t...

We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027. Learn more and apply through the link below! www.bl.uk/services/res...

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 :)

THIS FRIDAY! Excited to hear some truly thorough socio-economic from the beating heart of that that approach, the @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social and the wonderful Sam Geens. Come and hear all about marriage patterns & economic growth Fri, 13 March, 17:30 (UK) @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom #SkyStorians

“Màiri… provides a model for ways of resisting centralizing power, of imagining community reinvigoration & renaissance… her songs were engagedly political” —Peter Mackay, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 37 (2025) #C19 5/5 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...

Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer... #medievalsky

Until 31st May applications for the Research Bursary are open! We’re offering one £500 bursary to support research in women’s and gender history. Find out more and apply via the link below. Let’s keep discovering and sharing Scotland’s women’s histories! womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

So excited to be part of the lineup at the Paisley Book Fest in May. Using a bespoke deck of tarot cards developed as part of my research into medieval Scottish gender history, I’ll tell you what medieval woman you might be 👀 🔮 More info here: paisleybookfestival.com/programme/th...

Lovely session with @natlibscot.bsky.social on using their enquiry service to research Perth women - very useful for Wikipedia articles! #Perth #Scotland #WHM26

Great to see creativity in action with craft skills' transfer workshops through Scottish Women's Institutes wonderful Heritage project. Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund for making this possible! #CreativeCrafts #Glasgow

Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now! palaeography.uk/study/short-...

WORK WITH US: ScARF Research Officers and ScARF Research Manager We are looking to hire three new members of staff to help deliver the final two regional research frameworks as part of @scarf-scot.bsky.social. Find out more and apply by 11:59pm on 8 March 2026: www.socantscot.org/news/#appoin...

📢 March is #Women’sHistoryMonth – a fitting time to support new research in women’s and gender history! Women’s History Scotland invites applications for one £500 Research Bursary for 2026. For conditions and how to apply visit 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... Please share widely!

Dream job in a dream department with dream colleagues in a lovely place. Everyone and their mother will apply. 😉

Really pleased to be part of this year’s lineup. My workshop examines gen AI in humanities pedagogy, moving past enthusiasm or bans toward ethical & critical practice. Participants leave with an AI policy & redesigned assignments. If you’re navigating AI in your teaching, hope to see you there!

Hilton of Cadboll - replica Pictish stone by an ancient chapel site that was used for the burial of unbaptised infants and suicide victims upto the 18th century. This is a fascinating stone for its central depiction of a woman. Original in National Museum #Scotland #medievalsky #archaeology

Right now in the Archive you'll find a fascinating display all about early women doctors in #Orkney, with a selection of documents, photographs and other items. You can visit the display during normal Archive opening hours and you can read more about it on our Blog at: orkneyarchive.blogspot.com

Want to work for @britishacademy.bsky.social? We are hiring several roles at the moment including 3 policy roles at different levels, a Deputy Head of Research Funding and several more. We are a lovely place to work. Take a look www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/about/jobs/

🌟NEW DEADLINE!!!🌟 Two fellowships, each valued at CAD$1,500. Apply by 15 March!

Here is the link to the Anselm Adornes: destined for greatness recording. zoom.us/rec/share/0m... There will be a Q& A with Jelle Deltombe on 7th March, do join us:https://zoom.us/j/97546717731 Please send questions to me in advance : [email protected]

In the latest episode of Beyond the Knife, we’re joined by Louise Wilkie to explore the remarkable story of the Edinburgh Seven and their fight to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. shows.acast.com/beyond-the-k...

🚨Editors of existing journals, it’s your LAST CHANCE to submit an expression of interest in our new journal publishing program. As a cross-disciplinary publisher, all subjects will be considered. For more information: www.sup.ac.uk/news/introducing-journal-publishing

Fellows of the Society help support the study and enjoyment of Scotland's past while enjoying a range of exclusive benefits. Submit your completed application by 28 February to become part of this global network of people passionate about history and archaeology: www.socantscot.org/join/how-to-...

The deadline for applications has been extended. If you're interested in this opportunity, apply by no later than March 15, 2026. Learn more: www.lib.uoguelph.ca/about/work-u.... @uguelphscottish.bsky.social

📢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/...

What is an SHR article? Laura Stewart, Convener of the Scottish Historical Review Trust, tries to propose an answer. You can read more about it here: www.euppublishing.com/do/10.5555/n...

I wrote a thing with Mark Hall on the wonderful late medieval chandelier in St John’s, Perth. Many simply do not know that Scotland has such ecclesiastical treasures and it’s more important than ever that we celebrate them at this time of mass church closures.

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The University of Prince Edward Island is hiring a historian in Atlantic Canadian history! Details below… www.upei.ca/hr/competiti...

The UHI Archaeology Institute is looking for a post-doctoral researcher to record and analyse the human remains from a Pictish/Norse cemetery in Orkney.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies Deadline to submit: 12th April 2026 We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Fellowship Opportunity! Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...

#EarlyModern #WomensHistory 🗃️ 📜

Very happy to have an entry in this fabulous beast of a collection. 'Women’s Poetry in Medieval Gaelic Scotland' discusses four poems by three women compiled c.1520s in the Book of the Dean of Lismore, the earliest #Gaelic compositions made in Scotland attributable to named female poets.

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Portrait of a Lady possibly of the Buccleuch Family, n.d., by #KatherineRead (or #CatherineRead; Scottish, 1723-1778), who was born #otd, Feb 3. Held by The Rhodes Trust, Oxford; source, "Finding Catherine Read," by Adam Busiakiewicz, artherstory.net/finding-cath... #artherstory #womenartists

Applications for the Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership (S-CAP) visiting research fellowships are now being accepted. Visit the University of Guelph and utilize our extensive Scottish Studies Collection – one of the largest outside the UK. Deadline: March 1, 2026. Learn more: uoguel.ph/s-cap.

A couple of new open-access titles of possible interest to scholars of medieval Europe -- this one on merchants, legal pluralism, and predictability in commerce: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde... #MedievalSky

JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...

JOB! Lecturer in early medieval history at my lovely once and future department! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

On Holocaust Memorial Day, we’re sharing the story of Jane Haining, a Scottish missionary who refused to abandon the children in her care and died in Auschwitz. Read the blog by Shona Paget here: womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/01/27/j... #HolocaustMemorialDay #JaneHaining #WomensHistory

Calling History of Fam folks! UL are hiring an Assistant Professor in Irish History with specialism in #HistFam to cover a period of leave. I'm not on the panel but happy to informally answer qs about the MA HoF programme to anyone interested www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE158/a...