The Lyon in Mourning Manuscript (1775)
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#DigitalHumanities project by @drleith.bsky.social and The Digital Humanities Innovation Lab at Simon Fraser University Library to analyze the #jacobite #manuscript by Robert Forbes held in the National Library of Scotland. #Scottish @scottishsfu.bsky.so
Incredible find by @juliettedesportes.bsky.social in the Seafield Papers at @natrecordsscot.bsky.social. A gem of 18th-century Gàidhlig for the Landscapes of Protest project at @uhihistory.bsky.social. Eager to see what else comes out of it. landscapesofprotest.co.uk/eighteenth-c...
Before #Outlander: Remembering the #Jacobites in Scottish History. #TAIWANfest 2026, Sep 7, 4:30. Vancouver Playhouse Annex. Jacobite history with SFU Prof. Leith Davis & live music from the Sybaritic Scots. Learn the truth behind the fiction! Book 🎻 programs.vancouvertaiwanfest.ca/dr-leith-dav...
Beyond Outlander: The Jacobite story takes on a new dimension at Vancouver TAIWANfest with a lecture by @sfu.ca scholar Leith Davis and music from members of the Sybaritic String Band. Learn more @pancouver.bsky.social: pancouver.ca/beyond-outla...
Beyond Outlander: The Jacobite story takes on a new dimension at Vancouver TAIWANfest - Pancouver
Leith Davis, director of the Centre for Scottish Studies at SFU, will discuss how literature has shaped perceptions about Jacobite history
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Sincere congratulations to @drleith.bsky.social on her receipt of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the 18th-Century Scottish Studies Society. Leith is a committed and prolific scholar who continues to make major contributions to numerous fields within Scottish Studies. www.sfu.ca/scottishstud...
Leith Davis receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Professor Leith Davis has been recognized with a prestigious award for her outstanding contributions to 18th-century Scottish Studies over the course of her career.
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Before #Outlander: Remembering the #Jacobites in Scottish History. #TAIWANfest 2026, Sep 7, 4:30. Vancouver Playhouse Annex. Jacobite history with SFU Prof. Leith Davis & live music from the Sybaritic Scots. Learn the truth behind the fiction! Book 🎻 programs.vancouvertaiwanfest.ca/dr-leith-dav...
Featured article in the latest issue of the International Review of Scottish Studies @edinburghup.bsky.social! FREE to access!
Paul Malgrati@paulmalgrati.bsky.social · 3mo agoGreat to see our article with Prof Gerard Carruthers published in the International Review of Scottish Studies. It’s about the origins and inspiration of Robert Burns’s address ‘To a Haggis’ – 300 years of debates on the value and quality of Scottish food. 🏴🥘 www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
Conference: ‘Jacobitism on the Home Front and Abroad’ Aberdeen, Scotland, 21-22 May 2027. Deadline for submission of proposals: 31 October 2026.
Darren S. Layne@funkyplaid.bsky.social · 3mo agoExcited to share this CFP w/the Bluesky community! The sixth triennial conference of the Jacobite Studies Trust will be held in Aberdeen on 21-22 May 2027. Its theme is 'Jacobitism on the Home Front and Abroad'. Submissions are happily accepted until 31 Oct. jacobitestudiestrust.org/activities.h...
TAIWANfest is in a Dialogue with Scotland this year! Join Professor Kevin James on August 30 as he explores how Scottish Highland culture was transformed and romanticized in the 19th century. Habourfront Centre (Main Loft), Toronto | 1:00-2:00pm | Free Admission. @uguelphhist.bsky.social
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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 #C18 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s-...
Encoding and Analysing 'The Lyon in Mourning': Shedding New Light on the Jacobites
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New Collection, edited by Dr. Leith Davis (Simon Fraser University) and Dr. Kevin J. James (University of Guelph), "Shaping #Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks" is a multidisciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
New Collection 30% Discount with code NEW30! Shaping #Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks, a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism's cultural legacy from the 1688 Revolution to #Outlander @edinburghup.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
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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!
“Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time […] Communication may be made in broken words, the business of life be carried on with substantives alone; but that is not what we call literature…” —Robert Louis Stevenson, ESSAYS IN THE ART OF WRITING
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · last yr.This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩
Very excited that my book is now available to read via Bloomsbury Open Access! 🎉 Can't wait to receive my physical copies 📘 Pre-order for your library and/or read it now here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... @scotlit.bsky.social @timothycbaker.bsky.social @bendoyle.bsky.social
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
YouTube video by ASL
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A talk by author @sarasheridan.bsky.social for the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. Sara’s own historical novels include The Fair Botanists, set in Enlightenment Edinburgh, & The Secrets of Blythswood Square, set in Victorian Glasgow www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfqk...
Sara Sheridan - Writing Historic Novels in the Age of Scott
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Gorgeous day in Aberdeen at the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University, chatting all things Robert Fergusson. 🌞
In Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood, there was (& I hope still is) a Victorian device built to horrify, edify, & entertain the young… When you deposit your coin, mechanical puppets re-enact the grizzly story of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber #WyrdWednesday www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee1S...
SWEENEY TODD machine
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“Borderlands are sites of mystery, but they are also theatres where, as often as not, tragedy unfolds… where the dead still linger and the living come, on special occasions, to grieve.” —“Borderlands”, by John Burnside www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/bord...
'Borderlands' by John Burnside - The Bottle Imp
If there is any sensation that is better than walking to the edge of a settlement – a town on the road, a lonely filling station, the huddle of cabins and steam on the highway through the Argentine pa...
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Hello to our new followers! As a scholarly publishing society, the SRS publishes critical editions of Scottish manuscript records, promoting access around the globe. Each year a new volume comes out, with copies sent to members. To join or to buy volumes: www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/
A’ Ceangal Chruinneachaidhean: Beul-Aithris Ghàidhlig | Connecting Collections: Gaelic Oral Tradition 26 Feb @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, free Exploring Gaelic oral tradition through handwritten manuscripts & audio recordings from the 18th century to the present www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-ceangal-...
A' Ceangal Chruinneachaidhean: Beul-Aithris Ghàidhlig
A' Ceangal Chruinneachaidhean: Beul-Aithris Ghàidhlig | Connecting Collections: Gaelic Oral Tradition
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I've giving a free online public talk tomorrow (Feb. 8) for the Scottish American History Forum. Looking forward to talking about Jacobitism and Cultural Memory. Bright and early: 8 am PT. #jacobites, #memorystudies and #18th-c media chicagoscots.org/event/scotti...
Scottish American History Forum - Chicago Scots
Topic: Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1820 Speaker: Dr. Leith Davis, PhD, Professor Department of English and Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C....
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Jacobitism & Cultural Memory, 1688–1830 8 Feb, free online Prof @drleith.bsky.social will discuss her new book, JACOBITISM & CULTURAL MEMORY, 1688–1830. The talk is free to join & aimed at a general public audience chicagoscots.org/event/scotti...
Scottish American History Forum - Chicago Scots
Topic: Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1820 Speaker: Dr. Leith Davis, PhD, Professor Department of English and Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C....
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Yesterday, I gave presentation about my Burns book to the University of Mainz’s Scottish Hub. The presentation is now on YouTube. Link ⬇️
In a fortnight at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. A great honour (and surprise) to be asked by @asls.org.uk to deliver the lecture. Join us for a celebration of Douglas Young, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Willie Neill, and others whose work brought Gaelic and Scots closer in new ways.
Gaelic and Scots in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Connections, Inspirations, and the Role of New Users
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Walter Scott’s LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY & WITCHCRAFT (1830): an accused witch confesses – after torture – that she & others “charmed a cat by certain spells, having four joints of men knit to its feet, which they threw into the sea to excite a tempest” #WyrdWednesday www.gutenberg.org/files/14461/...
(Re)collecting Jacobites in Robert Forbes’s “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript 15 Feb, @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social – free Prof @drleith.bsky.social discusses material in “The Lyon in Mourning” related to Jacobite men & women who would be otherwise lost to history www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-tal...
PUBLIC TALK: (Re)collecting Jacobites with Leith Davis
A talk for all those curious about the Jacobites! Professor Leith Davies reveals 'The Lyon in Mourning'.
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We’re thrilled to announce our research event on Scottish and Irish Gothic on 11 April, with a keynote by Claire Connolly and a fabulous lineup of speakers. We look forward to welcoming you. Full details and registration below: www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/scottish-and...
The longlist for the 2024 Highland Book Prize/Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd has been announced. The award celebrates poetry, fiction, & non-fiction that comes from the landscape & culture of the Scottish Highlands & Islands. www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/2024-longlist/
2024 Longlist - The Highland Book Prize | Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd
Highland Book Prize 2024 Longlist Announced The longlist for the Highland Book Prize 2024 has been announced by the Highland Society of London and Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre. Thi...
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