‘Books Open – for you to read and enjoy’ at the Wanlockhead Miners’ Subscription Library, the Museum of Lead Mining 3rd Friday at 13.00 and 3rd Sat 11:15 in April, May, Sept. 2026 / 3rd Friday at 13.15 and 3rd Sat at 10:15 in June, July, Aug. 2026. Details: www.leadminingmuseum.co.uk/events/books...

'Mining for Knowledge' - a study day to celebrate the 270th anniversay of the Wanlockhead Miners' Subscription Library - 4 June 2026 in Edinburgh. Programme and details here: www.leadminingmuseum.co.uk/events/minin...

New Friends of Edinburgh University Library Event - David Laing Book Collecting Prize 2026: Highlights from the Finalists - 27 May, 15:00: Details here: friendsofeul.co.uk/2026/05/10/d...

📚 🥳 All welcome at our hybrid book launch for Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824), edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Rachel Feldberg and Jane Rendall (Boydell Press: 2026) 📚🥳 🗓️ Wednesday 13 May, 5pm 📍 H/G21, Heslington Hall 🔗 🎟️ www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with @nicolaparsons.bsky.social and at Glasgow with me. Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships.... Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.

BARS Research and Innovation Event: Applying for Funding Reminder: THIS MONDAY 20 April 2026, 10am-1pm UK time via Zoom Join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I just registered AND YOU SHOULD TOO!! Excited to be talking about my diss research on Thomas Bakewell (and Robert Bloomfield and Robert Burns)

WE NEED YOU! Would you like to write an article for the BARS Blog? We've got some ideas for April below! If you'd like to write a blog on one of these subjects, please do get in touch! Alternatively, if you'd like to pitch your own idea, don't be afraid to drop us a message!!

A reminder that the deadline for Expressions of Interest in hosting BARS 2028 is coming up - if you're potentially interested, but have questions or concerns, please feel free to drop me an email. It's a big responsibility, but a very rewarding one, and crucial for the health of the Association.

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...

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

I enjoyed this unusually literary bit of marketing from my university with @mckeever.bsky.social

Publication Boxing Day! Shoutout to @books-borrowing.bsky.social in Feminist Librarianship, and thanks to @cilipscotland.bsky.social for a wonderful launch event at @natlibscot.bsky.social yesterday. If you’re interested in women’s reading, circulating libraries, and library history give it a read!

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our Digital Prize 2026: Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO). The project is the result of a 5yr AHRC-funded project on the role of books in social, cultural & political change across the #18thC Atlantic. www.liverpool.ac.uk/history/rese... #skystorians 🗃️

What a fantastic day of Scottish History awaits! Join us on 28th March for our conference, AGM and presidential lecture. Free to members, £6 non-members Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/scott... Please share!

Radcliffe's 'The Italian' was very popular with the borrowers of the Selkirk Library in the early 19th century borrowing.stir.ac.uk/search/0/0/0... - here's a chance to find out why!

EXCITING TALK ANNOUNCEMENT: @romgothsam.bsky.social will be speaking on Byron's Legacy, Newstead Abbey and Thomas Wildman for the Byron Society. Get your free tickets below ⤵️

Call for Papers: 'Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference', @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, 28-30 June 2027, organised by @mckeever.bsky.social & team. Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2026. Details of financial support for PGRs to follow. tinyurl.com/yt2vj4x7

Now online! Our research review 🔬📜 We have more than 50 research projects under way at any given time at the Library. For a taste of what we do, check out our Research Review 2024–25.

📢Find out about the history of the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh at next Tuesday's lunchtime talk at 1.15 pm @surgeonshall.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-time...

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online project @montaguletters.bsky.social has announced their next round of paid internships, focusing letters from Montagu to Classicist and poet Elizabeth Carter - emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/inte... @bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @oxford18thc.bsky.social

🚨 Next BARS Digital Event: 'Reviving "The Liberal": Literature and Politics between Britain and Italy, 1821-23', 11th March, 4pm GMT, 5pm CET 🗞️📰 Register for free: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

If you missed our digital events on 'Walking Forward with Annette von Droste Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth' and 'Romantic Creativity', you can catch up on the Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@barsdigital...

Call for Contributors! Writing the Industrial Revolution brings together short illustrated essays on industrial change and its cultural consequences in Britain, circa 1770–1830. We'd love to hear from other researchers who'd like to contribute an essay. Please see ⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6341

Call for Papers: 'Scotland and the In-Between', the annual Société française d’études écossaises (French Society for Scottish Studies) conference (Université de Lorraine, 12-14 Nov 2026). Proposals for papers in French or English are due 28th April. More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6338

This week on the podcast: @drcleoocy.bsky.social and @kateferrier.bsky.social on why Susan Edmonstone Ferrier is more than just "the Scottish Jane Austen" Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...

New Five Questions interview up on the BARS Blog: @jodielmarley.bsky.social on William Blake's Mysticism: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6309.

My interview with @mjrsangster.bsky.social on my new book, William Blake's Mysticism, has just been published on the @bars.bsky.social blog. Thank you for your insightful questions, Matt 💫 www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6309

***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH*** We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March. £400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city @unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

And a DELIGHT to read this review of us! Thank you, @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social ! 😍

Did you know that we award SEVEN #fellowships, five of which have #deadlines of the ***1 FEBRUARY 2026*** #skystorians #18thC🗃️ Details can be found on our website or in the thread 🔽 www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

Save the Date: 14th International Walter Scott Conference in Edinburgh, 2027 Details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6280

Lovely story of Raeburn's lost but now found portrait of Robert Burns - just in time for Burns Night! www.youtube.com/watch?v=StBu... The portrait is on display at the National Gallery of Scotland @nationalgalleries.bsky.social from today.

A 'lost' portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn has been uncovered, and is now on display at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/raeburn...

Upcoming book tour, where I'll be talking about the book (obvs.), the decision to step away, for this one at least, from my established genre of historical crime fiction, and why I'm publishing it under my own name - Shona - rather than 'S.G.' Amongst other things ...

Help us develop a global map of how Burns Night is celebrated! Take Part in The Burns Supper at 225 Years Research Project ⬇️ . There are still tickets for our annual Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference this Sat (17th Jan), held in the ARC: gla.ac/3LaXLe5

The transcription of Edinburgh University Library’s Receipt Book for the Book Borrowing Surgeons project is well underway. Kit Baston gives an update on her project, funded by an OEC Jean Guild Grant. #edinburghsurgeons #edinburghuniversitylibrary #RCSEd oldedinburghclub.org.uk/kit-baston-t...

Their prizewinning resource is "Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830". Check it out here! borrowing.stir.ac.uk

Happy 250th birthday, Jane Austen! Why not celebrate by reading my hot-off-the-press lil piece which sheds new light on the composition process for JA's greatest novel (no questions, sit yo ass down) PERSUASION. It involved archival sleuthing, so was cracking fun to write. jasna.org/publications...

/… www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/friends ☕️ You can support us at our Christmas Coffee Morning on Saturday 6 December 10am-12 noon in Dunblane Cathedral Hall 🚶Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups

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

Excited to be speaking in Dunblane on 15 Nov for the Leighton Library. I'll be sharing findings from my PhD and the @books-borrowing.bsky.social project. Do come along to hear more about Enlightenment and conspiracy in the reading habits of Leighton members!

This forthcoming novel by @shonamaclean.bsky.social looks great! 'Had us at 'circulating library' & '1831'! 😍https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Shona-MacLean/The-Cromarty-Library-Circle/32495124 #CromartyLibraryCircle

We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...

We're looking forward to our Summer Fayre next Friday and Saturday! Local craftspeople, refreshments and lots of secondhand #books

The Wolfson Foundation has awarded a grant of £50,000 towards the cost of redeveloping the Leighton Library Undercroft to create a new exhibition space. The Leighton Library Trustees and all other volunteers thank the Wolfson Foundation for this very generous award.../👇

The laying of the foundation stone of the Royal High School, Edinburgh, on 28th July 1825. A great blog by Steven Robb for the OEC. #royalhighschool #caltonhill #thomashamiltonarchitect #lordprovost #lordglenorchy #oldedinburghhistory #scottishenlightenment #greekrevivalbuildings

BARS Digital Symposium: ‘Global Romanticism’ Programme – 23 July 2025 (UK Time; BST) www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6052 Links to follow on Monday 21 July - keep an eye on emails!