🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 @joshuarushton8.bsky.social and I are holding an online colloquium 'Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World' on 30 Sept 2026 🌳 🌊 ⛪ 🐄 Deadline for submissions 1 September.

Calling archival researchers working in any era! I'm seeking your stories of 'archival echoes'. These could be: ✅ the (re)discovery of a rare or once-lost manuscript 🗑️ a valuable text recovered from a bin or skip 🔥 a story of irreversible destruction (burning, etc.)

We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern

#CfP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750. Oxford, June 18-19, 2026 Abstracts by Feb 28 '26. Featuring a quintessential quartet of keynotes: @rhetorician.bsky.social, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social, & Sue Wiseman www.rensoc.org.uk/event/clio-r... #SRS_Sponsored

📢JOYCE YOUINGS LECTURE 2025-26 IS NEXT WEEK📢 Prof. Jane Whittle: Work & gender, status & power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England 🗓️ 28 January, 3pm, followed by drinks reception 📍 Uni of Exeter & Zoom 🗃️ All welcome, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joyce-...

The Joyce Youings Memorial Lecture 2025-6: Professor Jane Whittle

Work and gender, status and power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England.

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I hear it's National Handwriting Day! My research relies on those individuals who spent most of their days with a pen in their hand and, presumably, ink all over their fingers. Thanks to the neat letters, the messy annotations, the lazy inkblots, the cursory crossses, and all of the doodles. 🪶

🚨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...

For any PhD students working in Medical Humanities, check out the Medical Humanities summer school from @durhamimh.bsky.social medhumsplatform.org/medical-huma...

Medical Humanities International PhD Summer School 2026

The Medical Humanities International Summer School is open for applications from PhD students.

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If peace is your aim this Hogmanay then I invite you to join me on NTS.live from 8pm for ‘vespers’ – a blend of choral music from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries 🕊️

A cough remedy to try this winter? Locally sourced, of course!

Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 9mo ago

“Black pepper mixed with a lion’s ear, the grunt of a pig, an oyster’s stomach & a cuckoo’s fart” – a satirical cough medicine recipe in @roslynpotter.bsky.social’s examination of food, health, & poetry in #medieval & #earlymodern Scotland #BookologyThursday www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/bett...

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...

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived! Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

I'll be on NTS radio on Saturday at 10am with a mix inspired by the folklore, the roots of activism 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 www.nts.live

🎶 I wrote a piece on 'Songs and Fancies', Scotland's earliest printed music book. Many thanks to Jane Petteree over at Soundyngs blog for hosting!

Songs and Fancies: Aberdonian music-making in the 17th Century

Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions also exist from e.g. the NLS). This post welcomes guest-author Roslyn Potter, who is …

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Very cool opportunity from @thenightwith.bsky.social for aspiring and enthusiastic sound engineers 🎻🎶 thenightwith.com/2025/07/29/t...

“Whether buried in the blackhouses of Lewis or the shuttered shipyards of Glasgow, Scotland’s mysteries speak to specific legacies which have shaped the land- & cityscapes that house its crimes” THE BOTTLE IMP goes on the trail of Scottish crime writing… 1/8 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/help...

I am happy with this gift ☕️🍴👻

Hands down one of my favourite conferences ever! Congratulations to @misswalsingham.bsky.social and the FEATHERS team for such an excellent project and for showing us all such a good time in a beautiful place. I’m left feeling inspired and uplifted – thanks to all involved!

A braw post doc with the IASH and NMS in Edinburgh, examining the connections between Poland, Scandinavia or the Netherlands. Applications need to be in by the 25th April 2025. #c18 #Skystorians #earlymodern #17thc #JacobiteStudies #Scottishhistory

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Post Doc! "Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture" Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #Skystorians 🗃

It's hard to believe that I completed my MPhil three years ago now. For reasons I can't remember, I opted to have it embargoed...but today, it's lifted! If anyone is interested in the literary legacy of the first secular song book printed in Scotland (1662) then this is your lucky day! 🎶

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...

Now this big westerly’s blown itself out, let’s drive to the storm beach… —Kathleen Jamie, “The Beach” Published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012 www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...

🌟Discover and Follow Women’s History Scotland! 🌟 Since 1995, we've connected people passionate about women’s and gender history in Scotland. We host events, provide teaching resources, and offer prizes and bursaries to promote diverse voices. womenshistoryscotland.org #WomensHistory

The Broons story for the Hogmanay of 1944 is a masterpiece of Scots art which surpasses anything by Raeburn, Naysmith or the Colourists. This is a hill that I will die upon.

Tune in this evening to www.nts.live at 9pm to spice up your Daft Days with a neoclassicism/strum and drang/baroque mix 🎻🎶

If you ever thought that searching a library catalogue is complicated, be reminded: this is how a book (in manuscript or print) in octavo with five pages or more and less than ten was categorized in a sixteenth-century European collection (from Hernando Colón). A 🧵 for #earlymodern #bookhistory

It was such a privilege to present a paper at ‘Scotland’s Manuscripts: Making and Finding’ in Edinburgh last week. Many thanks so much to the team for their hard work in organising and delivering such a brilliant conference! 📜

Dr Bryony Coombs@bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 2y ago

We did it! So pleased with how 'Scotland's Manuscripts: Making and Finding' went. A lot of hard work and so grateful to my co-organisers, but it reminded me of the great great value in just getting MS scholars in the same room with some MSS to discuss. So important & doesn't always happen enough...

100+ archives & library special collections accounts have now joined Bluesky! Welcome to @britrecs.bsky.social @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social @archives76.bsky.social & catch up with more new arrivals in our starter pack at go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2

CONFERENCE: SRS 11th Biennial Conference | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents memorients.com/events/confe...

CONFERENCE: SRS 11th Biennial Conference | MEMOs

The University of Bristol is delighted to welcome the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference back to Bristol in July 2025.

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Hi all, I've made a starter park of historians of the body - please shout if you'd like to be added/removed. I was in a rush so haven't added everyone yet! go.bsky.app/T5KnJ51 🗃️