I'll be on NTS radio on Saturday at 10am with a mix inspired by the folklore, the roots of activism 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 www.nts.live

🎶 I wrote a piece on 'Songs and Fancies', Scotland's earliest printed music book. Many thanks to Jane Petteree over at Soundyngs blog for hosting!

Very cool opportunity from @thenightwith.bsky.social for aspiring and enthusiastic sound engineers 🎻🎶 thenightwith.com/2025/07/29/t...

“Whether buried in the blackhouses of Lewis or the shuttered shipyards of Glasgow, Scotland’s mysteries speak to specific legacies which have shaped the land- & cityscapes that house its crimes” THE BOTTLE IMP goes on the trail of Scottish crime writing… 1/8 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/help...

I am happy with this gift ☕️🍴👻

Hands down one of my favourite conferences ever! Congratulations to @misswalsingham.bsky.social and the FEATHERS team for such an excellent project and for showing us all such a good time in a beautiful place. I’m left feeling inspired and uplifted – thanks to all involved!

A braw post doc with the IASH and NMS in Edinburgh, examining the connections between Poland, Scandinavia or the Netherlands. Applications need to be in by the 25th April 2025. #c18 #Skystorians #earlymodern #17thc #JacobiteStudies #Scottishhistory

It's hard to believe that I completed my MPhil three years ago now. For reasons I can't remember, I opted to have it embargoed...but today, it's lifted! If anyone is interested in the literary legacy of the first secular song book printed in Scotland (1662) then this is your lucky day! 🎶

The Scottish History Society 2025 Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM is on Saturday 29th March! We had a fantastic time last year hearing about research so join us for a great day of papers and discussion. Free to members, £5 non-members. www.tickettailor.com/events/scott...

Now this big westerly’s blown itself out, let’s drive to the storm beach… —Kathleen Jamie, “The Beach” Published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012 www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...

🌟Discover and Follow Women’s History Scotland! 🌟 Since 1995, we've connected people passionate about women’s and gender history in Scotland. We host events, provide teaching resources, and offer prizes and bursaries to promote diverse voices. womenshistoryscotland.org #WomensHistory

The Broons story for the Hogmanay of 1944 is a masterpiece of Scots art which surpasses anything by Raeburn, Naysmith or the Colourists. This is a hill that I will die upon.

Tune in this evening to www.nts.live at 9pm to spice up your Daft Days with a neoclassicism/strum and drang/baroque mix 🎻🎶

If you ever thought that searching a library catalogue is complicated, be reminded: this is how a book (in manuscript or print) in octavo with five pages or more and less than ten was categorized in a sixteenth-century European collection (from Hernando Colón). A 🧵 for #earlymodern #bookhistory

It was such a privilege to present a paper at ‘Scotland’s Manuscripts: Making and Finding’ in Edinburgh last week. Many thanks so much to the team for their hard work in organising and delivering such a brilliant conference! 📜

100+ archives & library special collections accounts have now joined Bluesky! Welcome to @britrecs.bsky.social @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social @archives76.bsky.social & catch up with more new arrivals in our starter pack at go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2

CONFERENCE: SRS 11th Biennial Conference | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents memorients.com/events/confe...

Hi all, I've made a starter park of historians of the body - please shout if you'd like to be added/removed. I was in a rush so haven't added everyone yet! go.bsky.app/T5KnJ51 🗃️

🚨 #Skystorians: @cambridgeup.bsky.social, publisher of 'Renaissance Quarterly', has "temporarily enabled free access to all articles published since the 1st of January 2023; this will continue for all new articles published through the 31st of December this year" 🗃️ #EarlyModern shorturl.at/BOw6L

Recent updates, new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, prizes, and much much more... It's December's EMoDiR Newsletter! Compiled by @martinamampieri.bsky.social and Francesco Quatrini, you can find it here: www.academia.edu/125940588/EM... #EarlyModern #skystorians

Chuffed to have a piece (🥪) amongst great company in the latest issue of The Bottle Imp. Give it a read if you’re *hungry* for food and poetry in medieval and early modern Scotland 🍓🍰🍎🥕🍯 (apologies, food puns are too tempting)

Call for submissions! *Embodied Knowledge & Making Texts: A Handbook* Please spread the word to academics & practitioners - @georginaemw.bsky.social and I have been overwhelmed and delighted by the response so far. It's going to be great! www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...

Find out more about our new research network that hopes to bring together people who work with letters in all their various guises - from across all disciplines - at our website here: epistolaryculture.wordpress.com Feel free to repost!

TONIGHT - Scottish Rebellions in Scotland? Food, Sex, and Liturgical Calendars? All this and more at the St A EM PG Workshop! Hybrid as usual - DM FOR LINK

I found an old half-bottle of dusty supermarket-brand champagne which I will drink this evening but don’t have any real occasion to…please post any and all good news below to justify my Saturday indulgence!

Hello fellow historians of medicine, science and technology, I made a #histstm feed. Post to it simply by adding the #histstm #histsci #histmed #histtech hashtags, add the feed here bsky.app/profile/did:... And please help spread the word 🙏

This looks stunning all over

Hello #skystorians 👋 good to see so many here! I’ll leave the annual Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500 - 1850 #CfP here for folks who are interested. Come and join us in Aberystwyth, 12 - 13 June 2025. Co-organised with @heathernicholas.bsky.social @rharman.bsky.social

If you are an academic writing on any aspect or period of Scottish Literature, please consider submitting an article to the peer-reviewed journal SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW. Published twice a year by @scotlit.bsky.social, the journal is edited by me and the very excellent @rhonabrown.bsky.social

Snow in Aberdeen, but tomorrow’s CEMS seminar with Sara Pennell will warm us up! Sign up and tune in, or come by sledge! #earlymodern

Excited to present “Documenting Ottoman Plants: The Unseen Work of the Translator” at the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London (on Zoom). 🗓️Thursday, 21 November 🕕 6 PM (GMT) Looking forward!

Hello new folks! Thanks for all the follows. I’ll hopefully have some nice early modern stuff to share in the next few days but plz try to contain your excitement.

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

It's more important than ever to support your public library. #Libraries are community. They are about opening minds and opening doors. Get a library card, and check out books. Download Libby. Libraries need the stats for funding, which is now uncertain. And thank your librarian. We love you.

go.bsky.app/43xNSFh Help me add more Scottish history people - reply to be added.

Briefly dipping my toe back into social medial to re-up this Call for Contributions for a projected edited collection on 'Alcohol in Early Modern Scotland'. Get in touch if you've got some research you'd like to share!

Here’s a provisional clanjamfry of scholars, novelists, bodies and poets involved in Scottish literature and present on Bluesky. Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/3EEXPcA

Giving this #scotlit starter pack another punt for all the new followers. Hello there :) go.bsky.app/SeyRqwU

*VERY EXCITING VACANCY* Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley. Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...

Giving this platform another go! 🦋 Since this is my first post, I'll introduce myself: I'm a researcher, specificially looking at early Scottish literature, song, and manuscript culture. Very into music! Love cooking and food in general. Also can bore you to tears if you ask me about knitting.

Devils & Justified Sinners: An Online Conference 24–25 Aug Romancing the Gothic presents its fourth annual online conference, celebrating 200 years of James Hogg’s THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER with a series of talks, events & workshops www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/devils-and...

2024 is the year of Robert Fergusson! @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social is commemorating Fergusson's life and legacy throughout this year, the 250th anniversary of his death. Events will be announced on our website: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk Please follow us and help us remember this important poet.