Happy Week-end reading 💪 Brought by @drleith.bsky.social @funkyplaid.bsky.social and many others I know 👍

Congratulations to @drleith.bsky.social and Kevin James for this wonderful volume and for inviting me to write about spies.

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...

Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

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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.

Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

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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, 1688 to the Present

Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

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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...

Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

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"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...

Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

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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

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland@virtualtreasury.bsky.social · last yr.

Abstracts of wills like these can be explored in the new Registry of Deeds curated collection, curated by Dr Patrick Walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social and Dr Brendan Twomey, in partnership with @tailteeireann.bsky.social virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll...

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...

Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland

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@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.

Environmental Scotland III

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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. 🗃️

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Explore All Resources Search Resource Type Thematic AHA Topics Geographic K-12 Education Undergraduate Education Graduate Education Professional & Career Resources Academic Department Resources Histor...

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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-...

Encoding and Analysing 'The Lyon in Mourning': Shedding New Light on the Jacobites

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#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-...

Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Paisley: 25 April 1846

Newspaper accounts of two public meetings addressed by Frederick Douglass in Paisley on 25 April 1846.

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

Five Fully Funded PhD Research Studentships at University of Hertfordshire

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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...