Super pieces from @emilyhay.bsky.social and @huntingrebels.bsky.social in The Blether to end our ‘Mary’ week! 👑

The Blether@thebletherscotlit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a Marian week we have had on The Blether! One more email to our subscribers to go! A huge thanks to @huntingrebels.bsky.social for answering our Treasure Island Questions and to @katekane1542.bsky.social for bringing everything together Subscribe today via us4.list-manage.com/contact-form...

We are so grateful to our fellow @glasgow.ac.uk Scottish Literature PGRs for supporting our project. Today we have an excellent piece in our Minds Alive series by @emilyhay.bsky.social check out @katekane1542.bsky.social post for the link to subscribe #theblethetpgr #theblether #scottishliterature

Kate Kane@katekane1542.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A brilliant piece from @domenicodr.bsky.social in @thebletherscotlit.bsky.social today about David Rizzio and the scholarly work being undertaken to examine his place within Scottish cultural memory. Sign up to read: us4.list-manage.com/contact-form...

It is all things Marian in this month’s Daily Blether, with just a touch of Burns & Rizzio in the mix. Subscribe via the link in our bio so you don’t miss out on articles by @hannahgrim02.bsky.social @emilyhay.bsky.social @domenicodr.bsky.social & brilliantly edited by @katekane1542.bsky.social

Excited to say I have a new book chapter out in 'Nationalism and Royal Women in Early Modern England', part of the Queenship and Power series from Palgrave Macmillan. My chapter explores the anti-Scottish nature of Elizabethan propaganda on Mary Queen of Scots. Read it here: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Mary was a prolific writer who enjoyed producing poetry.

Mary, Queen of Scots’ last letter is going on display in 2026 – five interesting facts about her other writing

Mary was a prolific writer who enjoyed producing poetry.

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To celebrate the imminent exhibition of Mary Queen of Scots' last letter at Perth Museum, I wrote an article for @uk.theconversation.com about my PhD research into Mary's writing - have a read for my top 5 things you should know! ⬇️ theconversation.com/mary-queen-o...

Mary, Queen of Scots’ last letter is going on display in 2026 – five interesting facts about her other writing

Mary was a prolific writer who enjoyed producing poetry.

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Had a lovely time today at @kingjamesconf.bsky.social presenting on James’ use of his mother in his English succession 👑 Main takeaway from the day? My aggressive hand gestures whilst presenting…

Understanding King James VI & I Conference@kingjamesconf.bsky.social · last yr.

Emily Hay explains how James rejected the attempts of others to vilify his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots. Although their relationship remained highly transactional in life, James honoured his mother with her magnificent tomb many years after her death

Great opportunity for queer working-class writers in Glasgow! Deadline tomorrow!!

The Alasdair Gray Archive@agrayarchive.bsky.social · last yr.

PLEASE SHARE 🙏 OPEN CALL FOR AN UNPUBLISHED WRITER: ART WRITING COMMISSION Responding to Holly Rennie Brown’s new curatorial project ‘The City’, exploring Glasgow through a queer, working-class lens. For eligibility, brief & details of how to apply ⬇️

It's me! After handing over the reins of SGSAH Digital Curator to the wonderful Isabella Shields I can still be found in spirit on the SGSAH Research website as the Featured Researcher for May 🌞 👑

SGSAH@sgsah.bsky.social · last yr.

🌟 New Featured Researcher: @emilyhay.bsky.social 🌟 A familiar face in a new light! Emily’s PhD, with @uofgartshums.bsky.social explores how Mary Queen of Scots shaped her image through poetry and letters from 1567–1587. ✍️ 👑 🔗 Read more: sgsahresearch.com/featured-res...

"Woman" is now legally classified as "broodmare," I'm sure this will have absolutely zero long term consequences for reproductive healthcare down the line. After all it's not like anti-trans agitation is part of a far wider far-right, explicitly natalist movement or anything, right?

Talia "Pre-Order CALL ME KIMBERLY" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · last yr.

One thing I missed that Jess draws attention to is that the court very explicitly refers to pregnancy--that is, to gestational capacity--as the measure of womanhood, in order to exclude trans women from the category. Well. What else is there to say? There you go. Now we all know what a woman is.

I wish universities would 'start to ask questions' about how many academic 'leadership' roles they can afford! The proliferation of vice/deputy/pro/associate 'leadership roles' over the last 10-20 years has been quite extraordinary.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2y ago

'Universities are starting to ask questions about how much research they can afford to do, and whether to cap their losses, bringing “difficult decisions about the activities they can continue to pursue”, according to senior figures in the sector.' Sadly, 'starting' started earlier than this.

Fantastic time at #RSA25 in Boston! Over the moon that my panel ‘Keeping Up Appearances: Royal Bodies at the Jacobean Court’ was a success! So grateful to @emilyhay.bsky.social and @glonsber.bsky.social for their excellent papers - both will also be presenting at @kingjamesconf.bsky.social ! 👑

Had a wonderful time speaking at #RSA2025 this morning alongside @cvspragg.bsky.social and Gabriel Lonsberry on our panel “Keeping Up Appearances: Royal Bodies in Jacobean Britain” (even as a Marian interloper!) 👑

@sgsah.bsky.social is advertising for my replacement as Digital Curator (and for a new Blogger)! Apply to get experience working as part of a great team and to fulfil all your wildest nosey 👃 tendencies in learning about what SGSAH PhD researchers are up to! ✨

SGSAH@sgsah.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 WE ARE HIRING 📢 Two vacancies are now open to join the SGSAH team. A fantastic opportunity to boost your proficiency in content curation 📝 Apply to be our new Blogger🔗 jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/sgsah-bl... Apply to be our new Digital Curator🔗 jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/sgsah-as... @uofgcareers.bsky.social

'Only 37 per cent of PGRs say they have had the chance to teach or demonstrate, according to the survey, published on 5 December, which received responses from PGRs at 57 UK and four Australian universities.' 1/2

Teaching opportunities for PhDs dry up in university cash crisis

Barely one in three postgraduate researchers now have opportunity to teach, finds Advance HE survey, with financial pressure on institutions likely to blame

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Neil Mackay@neilmackay.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why Wolf Hall is a symbol of English cultural domination There’s umpteen untold stories from the histories of Scotland, Wales and Ireland that the BBC could tell. Instead we get more Tudors, the ultimate pleaser for the Home Counties middle-classes www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2477...

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

🚨Calling all Scottish teachers🚨 I've been working with Scottish Book Trust to research the benefits and barriers to using Scots in the classroom, and we want to hear from you! Please complete and share the survey 👇 surveymonkey.com/r/SBT-Scotsi...

Scots in the Classroom

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Out now: Women Writing Socially In Academia. A joy to be a part of this, and an excuse to write about being annoyed at Taylor Swift in an academic context. It's a belter. Please share widely, order for your libraries and enjoy the compassionate solidarity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Women Writing Socially in Academia

This book meets the need to enable women’s capacity, in academic settings, to structure their own writing practice and that of others in the community.

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The new issue of Scottish Literary Review is out now on Project Muse! There are some excellent essays here by Emily Hay on early modern Scottish women writers, Craig Buchanan on the Sobieski Stuarts and Nuri Batuhan Luleci on Irvine Welsh. Also a bumper crop of reviews 👇 muse.jhu.edu/issue/51851

Brought in 2024 with a 1000-piece Tudors jigsaw puzzle 🧩 My favourite part is obviously Mary making an iconic appearance, but for some reason she’s in demure white rather than martyrs red here 🪓