Listen to this wonderful podcast with SUP Editorial Board member Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland @breerob-kirk.bsky.social, recorded for #OAWeek! Brianna discusses why #OpenAccess is so important, especially for smaller arts institutions and ECRs 🔓 Thanks to @sahavoice.bsky.social for arranging 🙏

Finally working on my chapter on John Corri and Corri and Sutherland. There is quite a lot to untangle with this one!

It was wonderful to speak with Federica on this podcast where I am representing Scottish Universities Press.

Looking forward to our quarterly @bsecs.bsky.social Council meeting today! I've been on leave so this is my first one back in a while!

So excited to see our book is now available for pre-order from Bloomsbury - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-and... A must read for anyone interested in gender studies, music, art, philosophy, writing, and history! With @louiseduckling.bsky.social

I have been quiet on here lately but working a lot on my Corri project. I have been really enjoying all their lodgings and work-relatedocations to Google maps. Helps me visualise all of the places they went in Edinburgh! #ScotlandHistory

So pleased to have a chapter on Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd in this volume: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

So pleased to have to join the board!

The recording of our latest webinar, 'Working in the Scottish Archives, At Home and Awa’', is now available on the IASSL YouTube channel! Talks by Kate Hill, @breerob-kirk.bsky.social, Craig Lamont, Nigel Leask and @pomuirch.bsky.social; facilitated by @stevenewman.bsky.social. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌐

It's publication day! So pleased to have this book in my hands! Come check out my chapter on Nancy Storace and Michael Kelly! #skystorians @bsecs.bsky.social @wsguk.bsky.social

The Programme for #BSECS2025 is out! So many fabulous papers including online & hybrid options. If it's your first time joining us, check out our mentorship scheme for conference support. Pembroke College, Oxford, 8-10 January 2025 #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

I have a chapter on Rauzzini in this fabulous volume! And if you buy now, you get 25% off - www.routledge.com/Bath-and-Bey... @BSECS #skystorians

Are you an academic (preferably ECR) and interested in coming to work with me one week this summer in Glasgow on a database of early recordings of pre-1800 music, funded by the COST action EarlyMuse? All info in the link; apply by 10th January drive.google.com/file/d/1ug-u...

Are any of the lovely people here going to the London Archives soon and could snap a couple of photos of sources for me? I'm in Glasgow with a newborn so can't make it to London at the moment. #skystorians

Tomorrow starts week 3 of #Acnowrimo. I know you are supposed to write every day, but I take weekends off. Writing the introduction of my next monograph. Who else of Acnowrimoing? #writing #18thc #skystorians

I have gained a lot of new followers over the last 24 hours so let me introduce myself. I work on 18th-century singing and singers. Working on a project about prima donnas and media representation and a book about the Corri family

Love the #womenwhodohistory started pack. So glad to have joined such an illustrious group.

The Women's Studies Group's annual ECR/DR and Independent scholar bursary is now open for applications. Worth £750. womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/

Abandoned the other platform and looking forward to hanging out here!

Off to London to talk about one of my Georgian prima donnas with Women's Studies Group 1558 - 1837! Today is all about Anna Selina Storace and how she reclaimed her life following her public break up with John Braham!

#AcWriMo might be over, but today has been spent drafting a funding proposal, costings for a conference, responses for a publisher, and a reference for a student. That is quite enough writing for today!

It's the final day of #AcWriMo and a perfect opportunity just dropped into my mailbox. So, I spent my time drafting work for said opportunity. 2600 words is not bad for a days work! My write everyday journey might be done, but I have made leaps and bounds on something that had stalled.

Alas, yesterday was too busy and I just wasn't able to fit in time to write. But, today, I managed to squeeze in some planning time for #AcWriMo and not have an overarching structure for the first 3 chapters. Phew!

Started planning the next chapter for #AcWriMo. I did actually start writing this chapter last year but stopped as I wasn't feeling it. Still a bit of planning work to do but feels much more cohesive now.

Presentation done and script sent off for next week. Today's #AcWriMo tasks complete! Really enjoyed working on this project throughout the month. Final push starts tomorrow!

Another 800 words and my presentation based on work for my #AcWriMo project is done. Just need to pull together the power point tomorrow. Revising a chapter I started writing last year on Monday and that should take me to the end of #AcWriMo.

Mornings are always a good time for me to write, though I don't get the luxury often. 1000 words added to #AcWriMo presentation today. Final section should be complete by the weekend!

It might be Thanksgiving but it's also #AcWriMo. Another 700 words down and now home to cook. Happy Turkey Day to all those who celebrate!

Another fun morning on #AcWriMo, this time writing a paper for a seminar in December. 861 words written with a clear plan of where to go next.

Today's #AcWriMo time was spent planning a paper I am giving at the begging of next month. It relates to the bigger project, but I'm at the very early stages with it. Answer bit more planning to do tomorrow and then down to writing on Thursday.

Another 400 words added to #AcWriMo project and the chapter is done. Still a few things to tighten up, but the draft is there. Time to move onto another part of the project - my paper for the WSG, which will form another chapter of the book. Planning starts tomorrow.

Today, I added another couple of paragraphs to my #AcWriMo project and I churned my own butter. #happyweekend

Missed a day working on #AcWriMo yesterday (it's been a long week), and had an editing day today, so only 200 words added. But, the narrative is much tighter now. Pushing to the end tomorrow.

Another 589 words on #AcWriMo today. Whoever says Harris was a generous manager clearly did not come across the numerous accounts of him refusing to pay his cast and lowering their salary!

Busy day teaching so I have been working on and off on the #AcWriMo project, filling in blanks and fact-checking info. I'll tally up the word count this evening, but it's nice that even on hectic days I can still make some progress.

788 words of #AcWriMo today, and the end of a section. Chapter is almost there. Probably a couple more days and it will be complete. Then onto second!

Another 674 words today for #AcWriMo. The more I already about Mountain's time at Covent Garden, the more I feel for her. Just awful how some women were treated by the press and management. #eighteenthcentury

Another 704 words down for my #AcWriMo project. Started to get that niggling feeling that maybe it was a bit boring, but I powered through. Those thoughts are for the edit and not the draft!

A busy Saturday, but managed to write 497 words today on my #AcWriMo project!

Managed to finally work on #AcWriMo again after 2 days absence and got 1106 words down. Few. Been beating myself up for the past couple of days because I hadn't worked on it. Hoping to be back on track now.

I'm on a field trip today, but looking to squeeze in some #AcWriMo time this afternoon.

So, looking unlikely that I can work on #AcWriMo today, but I did just submit a funding application... Back to work on @bsecs.bsky.social for the remainder of the afternoon.

I started writing the chapter and got 1509 draft words down! Oh yeah. Love it when I get in the flow. #AcWriMo #primadonnas #eighteenthcentury @bsecs.bsky.social

I worked on my #AcWriMo project earlier today, but was bookended by meetings. Today's investigations were on Thomas Weston's mock will. Not quite onto writing yet, but soon.

Finished with my #AcWriMo project for the day. 2656 words in my planning document now. Thinking I will move to writing the chapter tomorrow.

Getting started much later today on #AcWriMo and probably will only work on it for a short time. It is a Sunday after all. Today, I am looking into Thomas Harris's affair with Mrs Lessingham.

Not a lot of progress with the time I have today, but progress nonetheless. Found what I was looking for and starting to answer the miriad of questions I have. Am I ready to start writing the actual chapter... Maybe. #AcWriMo 2169 word count.

I've not got a lot of time to #AcWriMo today, but the doc is open and I'm on the hunt for Mountain's children. Even a little time is still progress!

Now up to 2030 words in my document and found some really interesting information! #AcNoWriMo

It's another #AcNoWriMo day and I am adding to my research document. On the hunt for the singer Mrs Mountain and her relationship with theatre manager Thomas Harris. I'll be working on this till 11am - whose with me? #eighteenthcentury #theatre #opera @bsecs.bsky.social