all I confidently have here is "1604, at Chesterton" if anyone wants to have a crack at this? #earlymodern paleography puzzle of the day! 🗃️

Still some spaces for articles in the forthcoming issue of 'Review of Scottish Culture' -- you can submit at the link below or message me directly. Please share!

Dr Valentina Bold@valbold.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Delighted 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

#palaeography help please! What is this word? res____d?

Short courses in #History and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Open Learning: col.ed.ac.uk/lifelong-lea... Booking is open to anyone with an interest aged 16+ #LifelongLearning #Edinburgh

History and Archaeology | Lifelong Learning | Centre for open learning

History and Archaeology short courses.

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Great line up for #scotlandsfest #spokenword @edfringe.bsky.social but just to blow my own 🎺🎺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Talking 2,000 years of Scottish history … 26 August …

Nice display on Charles Lindbergh! It appears he was a fantastic pilot, but a terrible navigator…

Horicon Bank Celebrates 130 Years with Inaugural “Together, Building Hope” Gathering for Faith Leaders

Horicon Bank Celebrates 130 Years with Inaugural “Together, Building Hope” Gathering for Faith Leaders

A complimentary breakfast gathering in Milwaukee features keynote by Bishop Walter F. Harvey on the power of faith-driven investment in people and ministries that impact the marketplace

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Hebrew Palaeography Question! Could anyone please help translate the inscription below, from the end leaves of a Latin Pocket Bible? The Latin inscription added afterwards shows the book was also owned by a Dominican friar, and the book is continental but was later in Oxford! 📖🔎

Remember The British Food History Podcast is now available on YouTube! Including the most recent episode, Feeding the Georgian Kings with @adamcrymble.bsky.social & Rachel Rich. youtu.be/c19r72VTJds?...

S10E09 Feeding the Georgian Kings

YouTube video by The British Food History Channel

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Still spaces for articles for the 2026 "Review of Scottish Culture"! Please share, with submissions at: journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc/about/s...

Dr Valentina Bold@valbold.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Delighted 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

Very excited to have @kiritekatawa.bsky.social coming to speak at the 1722 Lectures at the Waggonway Museum in Cockenzie! Details are here: www.1722waggonway.co.uk/product-page...

TALK: Elizabeth Ewan - For Whatever Ales Ye | 1722waggonway

For Whatever Ales Ye: Women and Brewing in Sixteenth-Century Scotland Thursday 18th June - 7.30pm (doors open at 7pm) VENUE: 1722 Waggonway Heritage Centre, West Harbour Rd, Cockenzie, EH32 0HX Upon p...

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A little more research on French goldsmiths and makers in Edinburgh's Canongate in the 1590s: vanishedcomforts.org/2026/05/29/b...

Before George Heriot: Elias le Tellier, goldsmith to Anna of Denmark

Birrel’s Diarey (sic), an important source for Edinburgh’s early modern history, and published as long ago as 1798, says that George Heriot was appointed as goldsmith to Anna of Denmark…

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Well, that sums up early modern taxation. In 1543 the Edinburgh Hammermen made an expense entry of 'Item for ane stent to certane men that yed with the provest xvij s'. Some unknown men turned up with the provost and we had to pay.

Very excited to have @kiritekatawa.bsky.social coming to speak at the 1722 Lectures at the Waggonway Museum in Cockenzie! Details are here: www.1722waggonway.co.uk/product-page...

TALK: Elizabeth Ewan - For Whatever Ales Ye | 1722waggonway

For Whatever Ales Ye: Women and Brewing in Sixteenth-Century Scotland Thursday 18th June - 7.30pm (doors open at 7pm) VENUE: 1722 Waggonway Heritage Centre, West Harbour Rd, Cockenzie, EH32 0HX Upon p...

1722waggonway.co.uk

This free exhibition runs until the 28th June, showcasing Jill’s meticulous work in tracing lost stones from the former Trinity Collegiate Church, which once stood just below Calton Hill. #lostedinburghchurches #medievaledinburgh #royalmile #citymuseums #chalmersclose

Reviving the Trinity Stones: Exhibition Announcement for 2026 - The Old Edinburgh Club

Jill Harrison announces her Reviving the Trinity Stones Exhibition at the Edinburgh Museum and Outreach programme for 2026

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What was daily life like in the vennels for the traders, craftspeople and food producers of medieval Perth? 🏪 Uncover their stories at Perth Museum’s new exhibition, Vennels: Perth’s Little Streets, which features rarely seen archaeological discoveries: www.digitscotland.com/events/venne...

#wallet-archaeology

PROJECT NEWS: The team out at Doon Valley Railway, Dunaskin, East #Ayrshire checking out the #ecology, #geology (and then hazards for the risk assessment) ready for the family Coalscapes event 14.07.26. For preliminary timetable see 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/news Booking opens soon….

Got to enjoy a masterful inaugural lecture by @jillburke.bsky.social last night. She looked at historical documents through their key ingredients: paper (through flax); ink (oak gall wasps); quills (from geese); and thought (through Da Vinci’s cat doodle). Fantastic.

'Defence not Defiance': the banner of the Northwich & District Amalgamated Society of Salt Workers created in 1893 with a rare early depiction of a female worker bottom right. Now on show in the Weaver Hall Museum, Northwich.

#palaeography help please! I’m seeing ‘knokvarkm[ak]ar’ as in clockwork maker. The Ks are clear on the page - both forms found in other names, as is the terminal r (see Freser in first few entries, but the ‘va/wa’ part worries me. Any thoughts?

New article out on the surviving sources for the Edinburgh Baxters (#Bakers) and the grain trade in the Scottish capital! Next year it will be freely available online, but for now it is through subscription: scottishrecordsassociation.org/scottish-arc...

Walking Medieval Edinburgh. Thursdays 21st May, 4th June & 18th June with historian Hetty Lancaster. Free - ticketed. Take a stroll through 15th-century #Edinburgh. Starting from the Museum of Edinburgh and finishing at the National Museum of Scotland. 🗃️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 cultureedinburgh.com/events/walki...

Walking Medieval Edinburgh

Take a stroll through the city streets and reconnect with fifteenth-century Edinburgh. Starting from the Museum of Edinburgh

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Great thread on this year's SWRS publication - so glad he found the review process useful!

Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And so from grotesque poverty to Colin Thomas on 'an Austerity Motherhood' - a neat link. Colin is presenting online, and talking about the cache of letters he found between his mother and grandmother, published soon by the South Wales Records Society.

✨I could not be more excited to see what arrived in the post today. Not only because it is good to see 2 chapters reach the light of day, but because of the immense scholarship that has gone into this enterprise, with 69 scholars &2 vols my hat goes off to @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social & other editors✨

Perth's 'little streets' to feature in new exhibition #urbanhistory #urbanarchaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Perth's 'little streets' to feature in new exhibition

The show will explore the conditions for traders and craftspeople in the city hundreds of years ago.

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May the 4th may be Star Wars Day - but according to John Gwin of Llangwm it was one of the fortunate critical days, Business begun on 4 May would go well, children born on 4 May would never be poor. More on his Commonplace Book at www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/35.htm

Ahh, the days before health and safety... In 1683 the Edinburgh Incorporation of Surgeons and Barbers were worried about the poor state of their convening house's roof. So they told their 'box master' (treasurer) to go up and have a look. You can never be too careful! Always best to check.

#SkyStorians I am looking for scholarship on the history of fragments (esp. of objects and/or in museum studies), i.e. studies of fragmented/damaged objects. I vaguely recall seeing a book or article about this once, but cannot find it (except a chapter by Schaffer). Any thoughts? #HistSTM 🗃️ 🏛️

Date for the diary - 2nd May. The big Waggonway booksale is back! If you’d like to donate any second hand books, you can do so at our Heritage Centre Sundays 11-3. www.1722waggonway.co.uk/museum