Applications are invited for an assistant professor position in History of the Middle East at the University of Guelph Canada careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Designed by John Brash of Glasgow, it was built in 1809 and is the 3rd church to be built on this spot since the Reformation. Evidence suggests Christian usage since at least 1252. Read more at 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/irvin... 🧵2/2

The Carrying Stream is a new podcast for Scottish words and ideas, hosted by IASSL EC member Paul Malgrati. The first episode, now available on Spotify and Apple Podcast, features poet and Gaelic translator Taylor Strickland; Scots writer and activist Billy Kay; and Burns scholar Moira Hansen.

Scottish mathematician, astronomer & polymath Mary Somerville was born #OTD in 1780. #WomenInSTEM William Whewell coined the term "scientist" in a review of Somerville's book, 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴. Used as gender-neutral term as the common term at the time was "man of science."

This is going to be so helpful for research and teaching. I can’t wait till it’s up and running. Having said this, I’d be much obliged if you could go back in time two decades and make it available for me before I began transcribing thousands of thirteenth-century cases!

2026 will be the year I return to the correspondence of the boar-spearing Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), sometime Queen of Bohemia, ridiculed by most historians as The Winter Queen but known in the 17thc as The Queen of 💕. If I have missed any letters in Volumes 1-2, DM me or forever hold your peace.

Can you help a local historian locate and map examples of historic Gaelic inscriptions on Scottish gravestones? Read the latest blog on our website here that explains more about this interesting project 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/in-sear...

New guest post on the #ArtHerstory blog! Finding Catherine Read by Adam Busiakiewicz artherstory.net/finding-cath... Here Adam presents information about the life and work of C18th British portrait painter Catherine Read, and also gives insight into the nature of art historical research!

I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.

The Art Nouveau embroidery of Ann Macbeth (1875 - 1948), Scottish artist and member of artistic group known as the Glasgow Girls #WomensArt

some great stories here!

I posted this👇 to a claim that genAI is better than Ctl+F to search historical docs. @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social replied with a genAI summary of my document and @bookllyfr.bsky.social asked if it was accurate. It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵

Ctl+F this

delighted to learn that some of the Rose of Kilravock medieval documents sold at auction this year are now at Nairn Museum and will be accessible to researchers in the future. Thanks to the Museum for acquiring and preserving them

I have been puzzling over this for a while & thought that it might be worth opening out to the floor to hear some opinions.🙏 What is this medieval marginal figure doing? They are clearly working with some kind of tool on fabric, cloth or skin... any thoughts on what the tool or process might be?🔎

Queen of Hearts, 1909, painting by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864-1933), leading Art Nouveau and Glasgow School artist.

We are thrilled to announce that Colleen Batey has officially published her long-awaited volume on The Earl's Bu at Orphir in Orkney. They're currently taking pre-orders at the Orcadian bookshop:https://shop.orcadian.co.uk/product/signed-copy-pre-order-the-earl-s-bu-orphir/ .

You can download a free digital version of Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen” from @gutenberg.org www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10049

We are hiring! The Department of History at the University of Guelph seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in History of the Middle East. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

OWNERS ASSOCIATIONS MUST REFLECT CURRENT REALITIES.—More thoughts on potential legislation affecting Scottish tenement dwellers: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/owners-... #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #tenement @thebefs.bsky.social

A fantastic online Latin palaeography course taking place (via zoom) in February 2026. See the link in original post for more information.

Quick reminder of the Call for Papers for our @thinkuhi.bsky.social 'Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland Conference' being held at UHI Perth on 9-10 February 2026. tinyurl.com/yvpe9cwr

At midday on the year’s midnight into my mind came I saw the new moon late yestreen wi the auld moon in her airms… —Liz Lochhead, “In the Mid-Midwinter” published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Polygon 2016) #poem #poetry #StLucysDay birlinn.co.uk/product/fugi...

Margaret Macdonald, The Three Perfumes, 1912, Glasgow School artist who was believed to have influenced Klimt #womensart

I write a newspaper column about Scottish history, historians and heritage. I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?

Delighted to see my article on Catrìona nighean Mhic Aonghais, a Mull-born poet living in Greenock, published in the new issue of Aiste clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

“Quha wait gif all that Chauceir wrait was trew?” The full text of Henryson’s TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID, with glosses, is available online here #poem #poetry #medievalsky metseditions.org/read/3eKdgKx...

Just over two weeks to get an entry submitted for the Leah Leneman Essay Prize 🗓 Please share widely!

Just a quick reminder of our free online seminar on Thursday 11th December 2025, 7pm.... 'Hidden in Plain Sight: Recovering Female Leadership in the Viking Age' by PhD candidate Shanna Bryman. tinyurl.com/25zxwy46

My new memoir ‘Phone Charger: My Life Walking to the Bedroom to Fetch Something But Forgetting What It Was By the Time I Get There, Then Walking Back To See If Anything in the Front Room Jogs My Memory, Then Repeating It to Myself While I Walk Back to the Bedroom’ is out next year.

Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize. ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...

1. Some manuscripts have real character. They are often not the smartest, shiniest manuscripts, but rather the ones that have seen things. The manuscripts that have really been used (and abused). Today I spent the day with a very charismatic manuscript at the NLS, Edinburgh...🧵

For #EYAInclusion, we’ve been looking at the records of Queen Margaret College, a higher education institution for women that joined with the University of Glasgow in 1892. The records are a fascinating resource for anyone interested in the history of women’s education in Scotland. DC 233/2/22/2/63

Some medieval mothers struggled to gain custody of their children upon widowhood. My short story “In Her Keeping” is inspired by an Aberdonian custody case, now in print thanks to Causeway Magazine + mentorship by @vickymackenzie.bsky.social A story from my @sgsah.bsky.social internship.

⏰ Time is running out! Submit your 8–10k word essay for the Leah Leneman Prize by 22 Dec 2025. Open to students & independent scholars working on women’s or gender history. Share widely 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

Delighted that a copy of Nathan Hood’s first monograph arrived in the post today! Nathan’s work to date on emotions in early modern Scotland has been outstanding. I am sure this is going to be great too and I can’t wait to read it.

The Society currently invites applications for its David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People. The Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj Closing date: Friday 6 March 2026 #Skystorians

History in the news - from my colleague Leigh Boucher www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

So, anyway. Here is the piece I wrote for the Glasgow Requiem project on the Cathedral well. new-cleckit.dominie.scot/the-woman-at... It's an odd piece for me, because I was working well outwith my usual historical beat, and with very little evidence to go on.

tried sketching a 'fantasy' setting for a future project but realised it's just real Edinburgh. where I live. #art

Winter Lecture Series RESCHEDULED! Please note that our third event with Dr Claire McNulty has been rescheduled to Wednesday 7 January 2026. We hope you can still join us online from 17:30 (UK) to hear more about 'Edinburgh's Unruly Women'! Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Excitingly, this programme includes an IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship, inviting applications from people working on one of the following: 1) Cultures of Natural History 2) Collecting Video Game Heritage More details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #histSTM📜

In academic writing it is vitally important to know when you have said enough to prove your argument. It is at this point that you must add every single other piece of evidence you have come across

Another good comment. "The arts and humanities classroom really helps us understand the world. We’re comfortable being in complexity. We're comfortable with the question and not the answer. And if there's a time when there's not an answer and we don't know exactly what to do, it’s this moment."

An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜 🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

Two-year postdoc at Queen’s University for historians of Classical &/or Medieval Europe. ~$70,000/year (CDN); requirement to teach 2 semester-long courses per year; teaching experience & scholarly publications are an asset. Per donor’s bequest, “only candidates who identify as women are eligible”.

Callum G. Brown’s Ninety Humanists and the Ethical Transition of Britain reveals how a network of British humanist intellectuals, inspired by H.G. Wells, drove major ethical reforms from 1930 to 1980, reshaping British society. 📖 https://bit.ly/3W774xh

Under the pseudonym “Meg Dods”, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857) wrote THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL, a cookbook which also includes the various doings of the fictitious Cleikum Club – “a small gathering of absurd diners who do not much like or trust each other” #BookologyThursday

Here at Exeter we are offering three fully funded AHRC PhD places in humanities subjects. Please get in touch if you are keen to come and do research with us! Closing date 23 February 2026: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...