Kirkwall Tailors Project
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A Community-Based Transcription of the Records of the Kirkwall Incorporation of Tailors, 1669-1772; Project Lead: Dr Aaron Allen
Still spaces for articles for the 2026 "Review of Scottish Culture"! Please share, with submissions at: journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc/about/s...
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Dr Valentina Bold@valbold.bsky.social · 9mo agoDelighted to announce that vol 30 of 'Review of Scottish Culture' is now available online. It's another super issue, ranging through Scotland and across genres, from senior scholars and emerging voices. All free to download. Now open, for new submissions! journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
📜 Historians of Paris! Huge huge long shot 📜 Is anyone at the Archives Nationales main site at any point in the next few weeks, & willing & able to take a few photographs of documents? Happy to pay for your time, whatever you can spare – pls DM me
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Just a quick reminder that a UHI Institute for Northern Studies and Perth Museum Public Series Seminar is approaching fast on 22nd April 2026. tinyurl.com/5abzbc98
Workers restoring St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, found a box of bones, believed to be those of the saint, concealed within a pillar #OTD in 1919. In 2025, the pine box was carbon-dated to a period contemporary with the 12thC earl of Orkney's martyrdom. 📸Orkney Library & Archive #medievalsky
April Re-opening for HES sites in Orkney theorkneynews.scot/2026/03/31/a...
April Re-opening for HES sites in Orkney
Sites managed by Historic Environment Scotland in Orkney which have been closed over the winter will be re-opening from Wednesday 1 April. Bishop’s Palace and Earl’s Palace, Broch of Gurness, and H…
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SRS Research Fellow, Palaeography Teaching in Scotland Audit at Scottish Record Society
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Help with #Latin #Palaeography please! It's a 1518 account for a Corpus Christi procession with a sum interspersed. What is the Latin contraction after Su[m]m[a] and before 'xxxviij s'? It seems to start 'pri', as used throughout on 'price', etc. The other loop is not part of the 'p' in pakthreid.
Pleased to see our article published in TEXTILE which discusses practice-based research on modern hand knitting drawing on volunteers skills. Huge thanks to all the volunteers and to the ‘Fleece to Fashion’ team at University of Glasgow eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Re-Creating Historic Modern Hand Knitting: Working with a Community of Practice
This article explores the benefits of academic collaboration with the community of practice. It employs experimental history methodology, a collaboration between historians, curators and volunteer ...
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Just a reminder to all co-editors that there will be not transcription-checking session this week, but we will resume next week (24th) as usual.
'Kirkwall Fair.' (1888) Although Arthur Melville was not regarded as one of the Glasgow Boys, he was seen by them to be a kindred spirit. A year after painting this work on Orkney, he left Edinburgh and settled in London, although he often returned to Scotland to paint.
Very excited to have the first of our online meetings with some of the co-editors of the Kirkwall Tailors Project tonight! We'll start working our way through, word-by-word, glyph-by-glyph, checking the transcription with as many eyes as possible. [London Museum c.1780 'Interior of a Tailor's Shop']
Help with #medieval #palaeography please! A 1497 purchase of a mort cloth by the Edinburgh Hammermen included three score ‘so[ri]nis’? Soriws? Note the ‘ri’ carrot glyph as in ‘w[ri]ttin’ several lines above.
Tales of True Crime, Orkney : Fraud theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/11/t...
Tales of True Crime, Orkney : Fraud
By Fiona Grahame. This is a tale of true Crime which took place on the Melsetter Estate, Walls, in the Township of Osmondwall, 1816. James Moodie was the 9th Laird of the Melsetter Estate. It was t…
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Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history
The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
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1/2 A key part of a tailor’s work was ironing fabric, as seen by ‘goose irons’ in Tailors’ arms across Scotland. But what did they do their ironing on? Images: Pencaitland tailor's stone; Dutch iron; Detail from van Brekelenkam, ‘The Tailor’s Workshop’ (c.1661), Rijksmuseum, NL, Public Domain.
Interested in men's clothing in late Medieval Scotland ? Come and hear me talk on Monday 3 November at Augustine United Church, Edinburgh
Made a site for exploring Bob Henery's transcription of Blaeu's 1654 Atlas of Scotland. You can browse, search and filter 28,394 features across 47 maps: dgplacenames.github.io/blaeu/
Woman sewing, c. 1650-55 Attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (British Museum)
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Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
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Revealing Life in a 13thC Scottish Castle theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/02/r...
Revealing Life in a 13thC Scottish Castle
Objects including brooches and dress pins were excavated alongside animal bones and crucibles – small ceramic cups used to melt copper alloy, silver and gold. Traces of precious metals found in the…
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SCOTLAND’S ARCHIVES AND RECORDS: CELEBRATING SUCCESS SCA is excited to open bookings for its next annual conference on Thursday 20th November in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Find out more and book via: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/sca-a...
SCA ANNUAL CONFERENCE OPEN FOR BOOKINGS! - Scottish Council on Archives
01 October 2025
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The final talk in the second of Royal Marriages Summit series bit.ly/4lifqMO will be delivered by Dr Michael Pearce who will be discussing the marriage of James V of Scotland to Marie of Guise – an important part of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France.
So I bought an old pitcher, and discover two authentic storage options; suspended, or upside-down on a shelf, from the 'Augsburger Klebealbum', heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/view...
(1/2) The inventory of one of our Kirkwall tailors in 1650: inter alia, 3 kistis; a pint stoup; a chair; a furnished bed; lint & woollen spinning wheels; silk; French ribbons; cloth, including buckram; papers of pins; thimbles and lots of buttons… #KirkwallTailorsProject
Step Back in Time at Kirbuster Farm Museum theorkneynews.scot/2025/09/23/s...
Step Back in Time at Kirbuster Farm Museum
Kirbuster Farm Museum is run by Orkney Islands Council and is free to visit, however, if you want to make a contribution towards its upkeep you can make a donation. Kirbuster Museum was opened to t…
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Tailor’s ‘goose’ iron from Gouda, Netherlands.
