Coming from @edinburghup.bsky.social Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks Ed. by @drleith.bsky.social & Kevin J. James Exploring Jacobitism & its cultural legacy, analysing works in English, Irish & Scottish Gaelic, & Scots edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

At long last, the new collection edited by @drleith.bsky.social and Kevin James is now up for pre-order, and it's 30% with the code NEW30. My chapter on Jacobite witness networks and government information management appears alongside a wonderful collection of esteemed historians and scholars.

Introduction to Digital Humanities – book now! tinyurl.com/5d5y84c6 Online participants can access recordings of the whole course and keynote talks. Ideal for all time zones! @david.deroure.org @jarona7.bsky.social @discoxford.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @aadh.bsky.social #IntroDH

This year, DHOxSS is proud to be sponsored by Google Books, Gale Cengage and Transkribus! About our sponsors: tinyurl.com/y4rmhpxu Spaces are still available on our two online courses - book now! @transkribus.bsky.social @discoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk #DHOxSS2025 #digitalhumanities

30% DISCOUNT with code NEW30! Shaping Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks is a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy with chapters considering #Jacobites from the 1688 Revolution to #Outlander. @EdinburghUP edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

Shaping Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks is a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy with chapters considering #Jacobites from the 1688 Revolution to #Outlander. You can pre-order a copy now with @EdinburghUP! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

"Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free..." Langston Hughes #July4th

Super excited to report that Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks, the volume that Kevin James and I co-edited, is now available for pre-order. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

Shout out to the INS staff @thinkuhi.bsky.social HISA awards....Highly Commended Most Inspiring Lecturer Dr Paul Malgrati and nominated Above & Beyond Staff Award Dr Andrew Lind.

***SANAS OBRACH | JOB AD*** Celtic & Gaelic at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is advertising a full-time, fixed-term lectureship in #CelticStudies. Application deadline: 23 July. I'd be delighted to chat to anyone considering an application - my email is in the ad www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

We had great fun working on this. So many gems in this extraordinary archive! @tailteeireann.bsky.social

Happy to report that Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising is now available in a (much more affordable) paperback edition. Thank you Cambridge University Press! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

@lyoninmourning.bsky.social would like to congratulate Dr. Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society!

Many thanks to McGill & Don Nerbas @csschair.bsky.social for hosting the 2025 Colloquium of the St. Andrew’s Society/McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies. Fascinating presentations by @drleith.bsky.social & Kevin James, as well as scholars from Dawson College & McGill.

Did you miss the IASSL webinar 'Environmental Scotland III' on Wednesday? The recording is now available on our YouTube channel! Dana Graham Lai (Simon Fraser University) on Ellen Johnston and Alex Dick (University of British Columbia) on Walter Scott.

Heads up re: the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Société canadienne d’études du dix-huitième siècle 2025 Conference: Trans/Formations: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries in Regina/Oskana, Saskatchewan 15-18 October, 2025

Explore the AHA’s Resource Library, with hundreds of resources developed or vetted by the AHA and our partners. Our resources range from classroom syllabi, to archival documents from the Civil War, to standards and guidelines for the discipline, and more. 🗃️

Please consider submitting a chapter abstract for our edited collection, Queering the Tensions of Empire. Abstracts due: 31 May 2025. Deets here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

6/10 “The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript, held by @natlibscot.bsky.social, contains conversations, narratives, poems, songs, letters & more, relating to the 1745 rising. From 2023: Prof @drleith.bsky.social discusses the @lyoninmourning.bsky.social project findings www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s-...

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass made his seventh appearance in Paisley in less than six weeks, speaking at two meetings, at the West Relief Church, Canal St and the Secession Church, Abbey Close: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

Five Fully Funded PhD Research Studentships- University of Hertfordshire - Centre for Future Societies Research #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT230/f...

I’ve written a piece for the NTS looking at forgeries in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum made by the prolific Edinburgh forger ‘Antique Smith’. Smith flooded the late-19thC collectibles market with fakes of major writers, incl. Burns, Byron, Dickens and Scott. 👇 www.nts.org.uk/collections/...

Percy Shelley should be living at this hour--and James Chandler, publishing this version of Shelley's "England in 1819" in Counter Punch, on April 21st, agrees. #Romanticism, #19thc

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Do you have any family letters from Scotland? Are you curious about Scottish emigrants' experiences? Come and find out more in this Lecture and Workshop with Professor Marjory Harper Saturday March 22 10 am PST www.eventbrite.ca/e/lecture-an...

The Research Centre for Scottish Studies is excited to welcome back Marjory Harper talking about letters from the Scottish diaspora. Scour your attics. and bring your own family letters down for a workshop after the talk!

If you’re within reach of Brixton today, I’m blathering on about ‘Circus isn’t what it used to be’ at 2.30. The free exhibition runs to April 12th. love.lambeth.gov.uk/ringside-lam...

I'm at a meeting at my public library. It is a community garden orientation, and plots are very cheap. Volunteer hours are used for maintenance and growing food for soup kitchens and the community. The org is supported by a local non profit. This is one of many things public libraries do. Fund them

Chinese famille rose exportware punchbowl depicting Scots soldiers (c1745), at Robert Michiels Auctions, Bruges (est. €12,000-18,000) #c18th #c18 #18thc #Jacobite

This week, the Royal Historical Society issued calls for its next round of research funding. Applications now invited for: - Postgraduate Research Support Grants - Early Career Research Support Grants - Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History Further details bit.ly/3ZnsQhv. #Skystorians

Don't forget to submit your abstract for our annual conference 'Universalism and Locality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland' Deadline 17 March! For more see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Earlier this week the Society also released the March 2025 version of its 'Toolkit for Historians' bit.ly/3skly1l The toolkit is a set of RHS and external guides, resources and data for those working in #History in UK higher education, with a focus on advocacy for the profession. #Skystorians

What force or guile could not subdue, Thro’ many warlike ages, Is wrought now by a coward few For hireling traitors wages… —“Such a parcel of rogues in a nation” published in Johnson’s SCOTS MUSICAL MUSEUM vol 4 (1792), & later attributed to Robert Burns #BookwormSat digital.nls.uk/special-coll...

I'm stoked out this year's Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography @ Penn: Kelly Wisecup presents a series of three lectures, "Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation," March 24-7, 2025, on campus and via Zoom

🎉SUMMER SCHOOL REGISTRATION🎉 Come and join us in Glasgow for our summer school 'Fantastic Texts and Where to Find Them: Approaching Fantasy Literature'! Registration is now open - you can find out more about the course and apply below: 🗓️ 19.6-5.7 📍 In person, UofG www.gla.ac.uk/study/visiti...

Three-year postdoc at Cambridge on 'Ireland and the "ends" of the British Empire'. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/

Did you know that BARS offers up to £300 for conference and seminar support? Find out more at the link below, and read Flora Lisica's recent report on 'Drawing Keats's London', a public workshop which was supported with this fund. www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p... www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5793

Such a pleasure to spend three days with seventy circus scholars from fifteen countries at the 1st European Circus History Conference. Exciting plans for the future too!

Huge thanks to @charlieholland.bsky.social (and all the volunteers) for skillful organization of the 1st European Circus History Conference at the fabulous Cinema Museum, London. Super time sharing research with colleagues from all over the world.

A fascinating 2 days at the Cinema Museum for the 1st European Circus Conference. Talks on circus innovators, buildings, touring circuits, acrobats & gymnasts, Mazeppas, Chinese magicians…Thank you to Ringmaster @charlieholland.bsky.social & the organising team for a brilliant weekend #circushistory

So pleased to present at the 1st European Circus History Conference in London this weekend -- appropriately held at the Cinema Museum. Great mixture of historians and practitioners --

Call for papers | 11th Quebec Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy www.csecs.ca/en/calls-for...

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Long-fingered & dramatically cuffed manicules, pointing out important sections in this 14th century medical manuscript #ManiculeMonday #ManuscriptMonday

“If we are very lucky, we find that the thing we have picked up is hitched to everything else in the universe.” David Gessner on following Central Park’s late, great Flaco the Owl.

I've giving a free online public talk tomorrow (Feb. 8) for the Scottish American History Forum. Looking forward to talking about Jacobitism and Cultural Memory. Bright and early: 8 am PT. #jacobites, #memorystudies and #18th-c media chicagoscots.org/event/scotti...

Jacobitism & Cultural Memory, 1688–1830 8 Feb, free online Prof @drleith.bsky.social will discuss her new book, JACOBITISM & CULTURAL MEMORY, 1688–1830. The talk is free to join & aimed at a general public audience chicagoscots.org/event/scotti...