Deadline for abstracts for this special issue is the end of the month. ⏰ #Skystorians

#Libraries #Librarians

#MedievalSky #histmed #EpiSky Three (THREE, 3, III) postdoc positions available at University of Exeter ( @exeter.ac.uk ) on ancient/medieval history of smallpox & measles. Deadline: 20 May 2026.

Ursula K Le Guin being a John Galt fan is a piece of information precisely calculated to bring me joy.

How did people’s relationship with possessions change in the 250 years before the industrial revolution? Join us at @ihrscb.bsky.social on Thursday to hear @lsangha.bsky.social on 'The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790'! 🗃️ Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Paper Portraits: The Self-Fashioning of Esther Inglis by Georgianna Ziegler / @emherstory.bsky.social for the #Artherstory blog artherstory.net/the-self-fas...

LECTURE RECORDINGS: 2025-26 Programme Interested in exploring the impact of colonial histories, Edinburgh Castle archaeology, Scotland’s Ice Age people, or queer women who campaigned for suffrage? All recordings from our latest public lecture series are now on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

📽️Film Screening — Caroline Walker: Women’s Work 30 years ago a courageous group of women occupied the building at Kinning Park Complex, demanding it be put into community hands. Over the years that followed women, artists, and women artists have had a key role to play in keeping our building open.

What do you do, in 15th-century Scotland, when the household priest behaves badly? If you're Isobel, Countess of Argyll, you might just write a poem about it. A very frank poem 😳

Scottish History MA student Suzanne presented at the British Commission for Maritime History New Researchers Conference. She introduced the audience to her primary source research for her Masters thesis about the widows of the Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, which took place on October 14, 1881.

I can't believe they got this interview with the walrus

one of the most influential Scottish early modern and women’s historians

We created #Wikipedia article on Margaret Watson-Watt (1886-1988) OH of Sir Robert Watson-Watt who helped with his research on radio detection. Became Lady Watson-Watt when he was knighted but divorced him 10 years later. She lived to the remarkable age of 102! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...

a beautiful story behind an intriguing medieval Gaelic poem written by a woman

“Like many of Oliphant’s ghost stories, it is about a past which refuses to be silent and a modernity which refuses to listen to it” —Prof Rosemary Mitchell on Margaret Oliphant’s 19th-century ghost story “The Open Door” #BookWormSat #C19 💙📚 www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/blog/blog-po...

Today is #NationalPenguinDay so we're remembering that time we made a Penguin out of Penguin Books. It's a Penguin Penguin. 🐧

On 11 June 2026, I'm running an online intro to early modern legal records, part of The National Archives' Practical Archival Skills Training #TNAPAST workshops. More details can be found via the link. For accompanying on-site workshops, see the below thread www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-early...

Call for participants If you speak Scottish Gaelic, Scots, and/or Shaetlan, you are invited to share your experiences, knowledge, and perspectives. This research will contribute to reversing language decline and strengthening linguistic diversity across Europe www.uhi.ac.uk/en/media/202...

Some good news!: New Carnegie Masters Grants to support fair access to postgraduate study in Scotland carnegie-trust.org/new-carnegie...

Professor Lyndal Roper describes study of the humanities as ‘crucial’ in the age of artificial intelligence as she is named the 2026 Holberg Laureate www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/news/holberg...

a good use for flyting vocabulary!

some very interesting articles in this issue - including on Gaelic women poets

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

Go Alice!

Marion Cleland Lochhead (1902–1985) was born #OTD, 19 April, in Wishaw. A founding member of @scottishpen.bsky.social, Lochhead was a versatile figure of the 20th-century Scottish literary scene. 👇“Painted Things”, by Marion Lochhead, from Painted Things & Other Poems (Gowans & Grey, 1929) #poetry

On #WorldHeritageDay we’re celebrating women who help preserve Scotland’s heritage. Barbara Fairweather understood heritage is all around us and in our communities. With friends, she founded the Glencoe Folk Museum to collect and share their stories womenshistoryscotland.org/2024/06/13/r...

The work of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1866-1933) of the Glasgow School, who pushed the boundaries of Art Nouveau #WomensArt

so delighted to see this award sponsored in memory of a dear late friend

Please share this advert for the Dr David Summers Master of Research (MRes) Studentship in Scottish Literature @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 May 2026. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Cameron Flint, a PhD candidate at the University of Aberdeen, will be presenting a paper with the updated title of 'Duelling, Disorder and the Endemic Violence of Scotland's Early Restoration Army'.

We need historians because evidence doesn’t explain itself. Context does not simply exist. It is built through research, interpretation, and critical analysis. What stories have you uncovered in the historical record? #TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️

A female MP who was anti-suffrage, a Tory MP who was anti-fascist, Kitty was a complex character! She's also a #Perth Women on #Wikipedia and we've improved her article considerably, adding info on her political career and anti-fascism. Read the review here: bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/08/s...

🗣 Shoutout to the amazing @perthwomenonwikipedia ,who were highlighted in an article by the National on Tuesday, in which we also got a wee mention! The work they’re doing to write women back into Perth’s mighty history – is incredible, essential and glorious. Congrats to Gill Ryan & all involved

I'm in a production of Come From Away in June and we are looking for stories of the events in Newfoundland around 9/11 to share. If you were there we'd love to hear from you at the email address in the image. If not then I'd really appreciate it if people could share to get the word out Thanks!!

Reminder to get those abstracts in this weekend for GMS, folks!!

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

For those interested in Scottish history, Rebecca Wilkieson will be presenting "Maritime Scotland and the Transatlantic Trade: the development of Scotland’s maritime infrastructure through the transatlantic trade, 1690-1750"

We can’t wait to share our plans with you tomorrow for the upcoming centenary celebrations of the life and work of Agnes Owens ✨ This marks the launch of our first satellite archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social Stay tuned for details of upcoming events in Milngavie and Alexandria!

“It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself” The Declaration of Arbroath, asserting Scotland’s independence, was signed #OTD, 6 April 1320 #medievalsky unesco.org.uk/our-sites/me...

Notice the difference between the Easter Bunny and the Library Bunny. The Library Bunny has a book in place of an ax. Also, the Easter Bunny is wearing a scarily cheerful smile whereas the Library Bunny's face is serious and seems to be saying "don't disturb me while I'm reading".

GRANTS DEADLINE: 30 April Submit your funding application for the next round of Society Research Grants, which are available to anyone wishing to undertake high-quality research relating to Scotland’s past, including visits to museums, collections or archives: www.socantscot.org/grants-prize...

Frank Watson Book Prize Lecture presented by Dr. Catriona Macdonald from the @glasgow.ac.uk. Patrons and Politics in the Making of Scottish History: Past, Present and Future 🗓 Thursday 23 April, 2026 🕰 1pm (EDT) / 6pm (UK) 💻 Zoom All are welcome to attend! FREE tickets: bit.ly/FWBookPrizeL...

so delighted to see this now published! Congratulations to all involved

Today is #TransDayOfVisibility - today, and all days, I stand in solidarity with trans people. #TDOV

I guess there will be lots of other people singing “Yes we have no bananas” youtu.be/gVBp6Fgw2m4

Come work with me and the rest of the wonderful @greenhouseuis.net community! #envhist #envhum

We’re funding research into #palaeography teaching in Scotland! See the job spec here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA145/s...

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...

9 month medieval post

Tomorrow, 'Outwith: Valda, MacDiarmid and Whalsay' opens at Shetland Museum and Archives ⭐ This landmark exhibition explores the nine years that poet Hugh MacDiarmid and his wife Valda spent in Whalsay, and how the rugged landscape shaped their lives and work.