Send us your proposals! We love to hear about the fantastic research using all kinds of sources for Scottish History

Scottish History Society@scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨Call for Papers🚨 We are thrilled to issue a call for papers for our annual conference on 28th March 2026 We'd love to hear about the amazing sources you are using and can't wait to spend the day talking all things Scottish History 💙 Submit a proposal: scottishhistorysociety.com/call-for-pap...

There's still time to sign up for this fascinating talk tomorrow evening with Derrick Johnstone!

Scottish History Society@scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 8mo ago

East Jersey Bound: From Scotland to America in the 1680s SHS and @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social are thrilled to announce a free, online event with Derrick Johnstone on Wednesday 11 Feb from 17:30 (UK) Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi... scottishhistorysociety.com/east-jersey-...

Talking about some of the amazing letters from the AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 project next week for @ihrlibrary.bsky.social 17th Century Seminar. Join us! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

"Weiriet of living my lone": Scottish women letter-writers & James VI's London Court, 1603 – 25

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The lovely Dr Claire McNulty will be joining us in January not this Friday as originally scheduled folks!

Scottish History Society@scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Winter Lecture Series RESCHEDULED! Please note that our third event with Dr Claire McNulty has been rescheduled to Wednesday 7 January 2026. We hope you can still join us online from 17:30 (UK) to hear more about 'Edinburgh's Unruly Women'! Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Imprisoned for nearly 20 years by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, fought her battles through words, sending and receiving coded letters. Historian Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social uncovers the human and political depths behind Mary’s captivity: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

Mary, Queen of Scots, with Jade Scott | Folger Shakespeare Library

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Talking about my bae Annas Keith 🤩 Stepping outside my comfort zone and looking at something other than letters as a source of noblewomen's lived experience and socio-political agency in #earlymodernScotland Come hear about Annas Keith's account books, inventories and diet books Register 👇🏼

Scottish History Society@scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Register for the second event in our Winter Lecture Series Our Secretary @huntingrebels.bsky.social will delve into 'The Accounts, Inventories, and Diet Books of Annas Keith, Countess of Moray and Argyll' Find out more at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com/records-from...

Looking forward to chairing this amazing lecture!

Scottish History Society@scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Find out more about @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social's lecture on Wednesday 22 October 2025. We're thrilled to have her kick off our new Winter Lecture Series with 'Editing the Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' Register below! scottishhistorysociety.com/editing-the-...

Very excited to start a new Winter Lecture Series with the fantastic @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social discussing the letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots 🪶💌👑 Registration details below!

Scottish History Society@scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland. scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

It's been a busy few weeks! Formally started the AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 project with the fantastic History team @uofglasgow.bsky.social on 1 October 🎉 Oh and did I mention I brought home a new quadruped child? 🦄 Everyone meet Elvis, my very own, very handsome Highland Pony 🐴😍

Can't believe it but on Wednesday I'll be at #EdBookFest talking Mary, Queen of Scots w/ the amazing Rosemary Goring, Kate Anderson and Anna Groundwater! 👑📚 Thursday = Highlands & Clydesdales at Scone Horse Trials 🐎 Come along, the more friendly faces the better! @omarabooks.bsky.social

The wonderful Dr Jade Scott (@huntingrebels.bsky.social), author of #CaptiveQueen, is attending Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 20th to discuss Mary Queen of Scots 📚 Grab your tickets through this link: buff.ly/dPsH3XZ #BookSky #HistoryBooks

Does anyone happen to have access to a digital copy of the Treasurer Accounts of Scotland Volume 12 (1566-1574)? 🙏🏼🤞🏼 I can only get up to Volume 10 AND the physical copy was missing in the library 😔 Was tempted to wander the floors looking to see who had it since it's reference only but I refrained

Very excited to share a stage with some amazing women @edbookfest.bsky.social Rosemary Goring, Kate Anderson and I will be discussing Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI under the expert care of Anna Groundwater on 20 Aug #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival

Michael O'Mara Books@omarabooks.bsky.social · last yr.

We are thrilled that Dr Jade Scott (@huntingrebels.bsky.social‬), author of #CaptiveQueen, will be discussing Mary Queen of Scots at #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival on August 20th 📚 Grab your tickets here - both in person, and online: buff.ly/ONslnr3 #BookSky ‪@edbookfest.bsky.social‬

Still time! 👇🏼

Jade Scott@huntingrebels.bsky.social · last yr.

The Scottish History Society has extended the deadline for the Alasdair Ross Prize to 1 July! Apply for up to £500 towards archival research costs! Go, go, go, we can't wait to hear about all the amazing projects going on & would love to help researchers! scottishhistorysociety.com/prizes/the-a...

The Scottish History Society has extended the deadline for the Alasdair Ross Prize to 1 July! Apply for up to £500 towards archival research costs! Go, go, go, we can't wait to hear about all the amazing projects going on & would love to help researchers! scottishhistorysociety.com/prizes/the-a...

It's been a minute since I was here but I come with good news! Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 has been awarded an AHRC Catalyst Grant 🎉 From October I'll start on a database AND digital edition of these amazing letters based with History at University of Glasgow 🥂🎊

First time speaking at Boswell and really looking forward to it! AND can you believe we are meant to have lovely weather too? 😊

Boswell Book Festival@bozzybookfest.bsky.social · last yr.

Linda Porter and @huntingrebels.bsky.social combine to discuss two Queens The Thistle and the Rose is the story of the misunderstood and underestimated monarch, Margaret Tudor Captive Queen vividly describes the long incarceration of Mary Queen of Scots Join us in-person or online bit.ly/Bozzfest

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...

Cannot for the life of me figure out what fabric this is supposed to be even as I play around with various interpretations of transcribing it! 😖 'fyn double...' Any suggestions?

Had a great time chatting with Johanna about challenging traditional portrayals of queens and of course the value of letters! 🪶👑📖

Royal Studies@royalstudies.bsky.social · 2y ago

The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @johannastrong.bsky.social for her conversation with @huntingrebels.bsky.social about Mary, Queen of Scots, the focus of Jade's latest work: Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots 👑 📖 🧵/3

Today is US publication day for Captive Queen! 🎉 With another lovely cover too 👑 Thanks to the team at Pegasus

Join me to hear about Mary's letters and support a lovely bookshop! 🪶

Far From The Madding Crowd Bookshop@ffmaddingcrowd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Soon we'll be sitting down with @huntingrebels.bsky.social to discuss her book Captive Queen, a new biography of Mary, Queen of Scots covering the years she spent imprisoned at Fotheringhay Castle & her use of ciphers in letter-writing. Tickets: www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com/collections/...

In #CaptiveQueen, historian and expert on Mary’s correspondence @huntingrebels.bsky.social draws on hundreds of Mary’s letters and those sent to her, to paint a vivid portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures. Out now in hardback 🎁 #HistoryBooks #WomenInHistory #BookRecs

'refreshing the debate on Mary Stuart; for weaving a thrilling real-life tale of spying; and for giving us all access to the woman and politician behind the myth' Huge thanks to Steven Veerapen for this review of Captive Queen in the latest Aspects of History

'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year' Final poem for this year's #ScottishPoetryAdvent [Sir Walter Scott, from 'Old Christmastide']

'Bide the storm ye canna hinder, Mindin' through the strife, Hoo the luntin' lowe o' beauty Lichts the grey o' life.' [Helen Cruickshank, 'Sea Buckthorn'] #ScottishPoetryAdvent

'if it weren't for this persistent sense of something -' [Kate Clanchy, 'Teams'] For today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent

'A mountain shut within itself, yet a world' Delayed #ScottishPoetryAdvent for 21 December [Nan Shepherd, 'Summit of Corrie Etchachan']

'Till you became all spirit, released' [Jackie Kay, 'Margaret's Moon'] #ScottishPoetryAdvent

‘s an t-eòlas ac’gun cuireadh cainnt bacadh air a’ chomanachadh òrbhuidh ud' 'in the certain knowledge that talk would hamper that expansive communion' [Meg Bateman, 'Toileachas/Happiness'] #ScottishPoetryAdvent