Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...

#LibraryJobs @uofguelph.bsky.social McLaughlin Library seeks applications for the position of Assistant/Associate/Librarian, Manager, Access Services. Deadline: July 23, 2026. Details: partnershipjobs.ca/job/universi...

On this day in 1981, Richard Cobb got an honorary degree from the University of Essex. That may not seem significant to you, but it makes this afternoon the 45th anniversary of one of the finest graduation addresses ever delivered 🧵

*David Attenborough‘s voice* As the sun rises on this early July morning hundreds of medievalists begin their annual migration to Leeds. Scientists have not fully understood this ritual but it seems to be crucial for the survival of the whole species. Intensive days of medievaling will follow.

Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The release of the records will cover seven centuries of Irish history and will make over half a million documents free and permanently available to the public

If you would like to know more about the project, our website is packed with information: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Sunshine on #Leith for all at home here. There is no place for racists in #Edinburgh and there never will be. A humbling moment: the silence at the spot of the attack. Everyone united in it for our communities, a little boy waving from a window above. We can make a difference. We have a duty to.

Corryn Kosik and I are excited to be organising a panel on 'Architecture and Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland' for the @rsaorg.bsky.social 2027 Meeting in Philadelphia! Please see our CfP and forward to anyone who may be interested: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

We have an 18-month temporary lectureship in early modern British and European history just advertised at Newcastle - closing date 9th July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW166/l... #skystorians

10th anniversary issue of @ehcsjournal.bsky.social is now out! We’re thinking the future of emotions, including an article by me on what it means to call something an ‘age of…’ anger, anxiety etc. brill.com/view/journal...

Check out these crackin' events from @surgeonshall.bsky.social for all your medical history needs 👇

Exciting news! My new textbook on early modern Scotland is now available for pre-order! Perfect introduction for newcomers to the topic: www.routledge.com/Early-Modern...

I know I'm late to the Bluesky Marc Bloch party, but I love his quietly passionate defence of the humble footnote*. ("The Historian's Craft", tr. Peter Putnam, 1954) * Or endnote; for once that is not the argument here.

This is really good. Read it.

Does anyone have any suggestions for journals that might take some translations of 16th-century Scottish letters in Latin? Thank you!

Remarkable photographs from the 1840s, of Newhaven (Edinburgh) fishing community. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #History #Photography

'If you work freelance in the UK heritage sector this branch is for you. You don’t need to be a full-time freelancer. If you do any freelance work in the sector, you’re welcome.'

A beautiful tribute.

Gorbals boys, Glasgow, Scotland, January 1948, photo by Bert Hardy, Picture Post photographer.

That moment when someone started to talk much faster and the inquisitorial notary transcribing the oral testimony in 1542 had to shift into turbo mode.

Loving the new Isabella Elder mural by Rogue One on Langlands Court close to Elder Park in Glasgow. #glasgow #streetart #mural #isabellaelder #govan

Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan #Scottish civil engineer. 1927 1st woman member of Institution of Civil Engineers. Engineer on #SydneyHarbourBridge #Australia #Tyne Bridge linking #NewcastleUponTyne & #Gateshead & #Lambeth Bridges in #London d. #OTD 13 Jun 1985 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

Well, that sums up early modern taxation. In 1543 the Edinburgh Hammermen made an expense entry of 'Item for ane stent to certane men that yed with the provest xvij s'. Some unknown men turned up with the provost and we had to pay.

@ecsssstir2025.bsky.social are accepting nominations for the Richard B. Sher First Book Prize (awarded early 2027). The prize recognizes authors whose first scholarly book contributes significantly to the field of eighteenth-century Scottish studies. #skystorians #18thC #ScottishHist

🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) & interested email CV & transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️ @igs-egg.bsky.social

Very excited to have @kiritekatawa.bsky.social coming to speak at the 1722 Lectures at the Waggonway Museum in Cockenzie! Details are here: www.1722waggonway.co.uk/product-page...

🚨 Permanent Job in Early Modern History in lovely Limerick🚨

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

📢 We are seeking papers for our online conference! We welcome proposals from researchers, students, independent scholars, and community historians exploring women’s and gender history in Scotland/ Scottish context 📝 Abstracts due 1 July 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/05/04/c... Please share!

Women’s History Scotland has a Call for Papers for its Annual Conference 2026. Submissions are welcome from all career stages, especially postgraduate researchers. ❗The deadline for proposals is 1 July 2026. Details can be found here: womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/05/04/c... #womenshistory

Dr Clément Guézais discussing and analysing the medieval Franco-Scottish treaties and how these represented an ideal of friendship in diplomacy: a partnership of equals, separate entities but united by a common purpose. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷 For more insight on the Auld Alliance, listen to Episode 7 (link in bio).

Last year, Professor Julian Goodare of the University of Edinburgh delivered a thought-provoking lecture on 'Witchcraft and Scots Law' at the Stair Society Annual Lecture. The recording of the lecture is now online for everyone to enjoy - please see the link below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_se...

Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

The ÈIST speech recognition system is now publicly available. This web app lets anyone submit a video or audio file with Scottish Gaelic speech and receive back a transcript. A hugely useful tool - congratulations to Prof Will Lamb and the rest of the team! huggingface.co/spaces/eist-...

#otd 1849, Catherine Cranston was born in #Glasgow. Known for her "art tearooms", she was an early patron of Charles Rennie #Mackintosh. Come along to my talk next Monday, 1st June at 6.30pm at Eastwood House to hear more about her life and legacy. www.facebook.com/share/19DirN...

This looks like it will be a great conference on 'Maritime Histories from the Margins, 1500-present. The call for papers is here: CALL FOR PAPERS www.rmg.co.uk/call-papers-...

It's the centenary of the wonderful Agnes Owens' birth today, so here's the longread I wrote on her life/work. It has interviews with her son; her 1st publisher, @peterkravitz.bsky.social; @sorchadallas.bsky.social; some of those who wrote introductions to the new edition & @damianbarr.bsky.social.

Hull-born Amy Johnson's pioneering flight to Australia ended on this day 1930. She left Croydon Airport on 5 May and landed at Darwin, Northern Territory on 24 May, a distance of 11,000 miles.

Scottish pediatrician Helen Mackay discovered the link between infant anemia & iron deficiency. She was born #OTD in 1891. + First woman Fellow, Royal College of Physicians + First woman physician, Queen Elizabeth Hosp for Children + Founding member, British Paediatric Assn #WomenInSTEM #medsky

8000 fragments! Congratulations, @fragmentarium.bsky.social! Folks, PLEASE survey your early modern bindings and share what you find. #fragmentology

Postdoctoral Fellowships with the Dictionary of Old English Deadline June 12, 2026 www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/postdoc...

The Scottish Record Society has published lists, indices and critical editions of archival sources since 1897. Our back catalogue has many titles, and some splendid volumes coming soon! For details of past volumes, or to join the SRS, see our website: www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/

Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married #OTD, 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof @penfielding.bsky.social explores the dangerous collaboration between RLS & his wife: granting female agency on the page & in life #C19 #literature 💙📚 1/3 dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a...

so looking forward to this!

Join us on 11th June 2026 for what promises to be a fascinating day of collegiate discussion and debate on seventeenth-century Scotland. Sign up here: A Kingdom in Perplexity: Voices of Seventeenth-Century Scotland www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-kingdom-...

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

A Kingdom in Perplexity: Voices of 17th-Century Scotland 11 June @glasgow.ac.uk – free A one-day symposium offering a fresh, supportive, cross-disciplinary research environment for those interested in any aspect of #earlymodern Scottish studies #C17th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-kingdom-...

note the Scottish connections in this manuscript

More than 20 MSPs were sworn in to the Scottish Parliament after saying their oaths and affirmations in languages such as Gaelic, Mandarin, Shetlandic, French and Scots. Here's a full list of the 15 languages MSPs spoke while swearing in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿