An incredible new PhD opportunity at @uhihistory.bsky.social under Dr Nicola Martin: An Environmental History of the Jacobite Risings in Scotland. This is a fresh and fascinating filter to apply to Jacobite Studies and the programme is under the very best of direction and care.

You’ve just 4 days left now to visit special exhibition in Dunblane Museum & the Leighton Library: “1776 - A year that changed the world” marking 250 years since year of global upheaval, intellectual brilliance and far-reaching historical impact. Final day is 30 July

The hardback of my first book, Living as an Author in the Romantic Period, appears to be deeply but mysteriously discounted at the moment (to £23.99): link.springer.com/book/10.1007.... If you've been waiting on purchasing a Palgrave book, might be worth a check to see if this discount applies.

Living as an Author in the Romantic Period

To allow for a greater understanding of Romantic-period culture, this work explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the ...

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You’ve only one week left now to visit special exhibition in Dunblane Museum & Leighton Library: “1776 - A year that changed the world” marking 250 years since year of global upheaval, intellectual brilliance and far-reaching historical impact. Final day is 30 July

My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is coming out in October. You can preorder it from Waterstones with a 25% discount today and tomorrow! Place your order here ⬇️ www.waterstones.com/book/an-inju...

Until 30 July visit the special exhibition in Dunblane Museum and the Leighton Library: “1776 - A year that changed the world” Dunblane Museum open Mon-Sat 10.30am.4.30pm (last admission 4pm) Leighton Library open Mon-Sat 11am-4pm Free admission - donations welcome

If you're in Edinburgh and eager to join the conversation in person, we do hope you'll join for the opening lecture by Adrian Johns--"Registers and the Dream of Universal Information: A Selective History"--on Monday evening (20th July), 6pm, at Augustine United Church.

We're a quarter of a century on from the establishment of the Scottish Parliament but and the moment of nation building which formed around it. These included the formation of a more official and institutionalised version of Scotland's past it would be useful to revisit🧵

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...

EThOS records restored

We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.

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Many thanks to all who attended opening event tonight for exhibition “1776 - A year that changed the world” with speakers: Kathryn Porter, US Consul General Lord George Robertson, Patron of the Leighton Library Dr Josh Smith, University of Stirling

An excellent blog post by April White (@jstor.bsky.social) on Thomas Jefferys' American Atlas (1776), using the maps of @leightonlibrary.bsky.social, digitised by @unistirarchives.bsky.social! The Atlas Behind the Revolution daily.jstor.org/the-atlas-be...

The Atlas Behind the Revolution - JSTOR Daily

While George Washington struggled to obtain reliable maps, British readers could consult this remarkable 1776 atlas.

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An excellent blog post by April White (@jstor.bsky.social) on Thomas Jefferys' American Atlas (1776), using the maps of @leightonlibrary.bsky.social, digitised by @unistirarchives.bsky.social! The Atlas Behind the Revolution daily.jstor.org/the-atlas-be...

The Atlas Behind the Revolution - JSTOR Daily

While George Washington struggled to obtain reliable maps, British readers could consult this remarkable 1776 atlas.

daily.jstor.org

UK-based early career historian in need of up to £2,000 to complete a project? Deadline for the Royal Historical Society's scheme is 4 September: royalhistorical.smapply.io/prog/early_c...

The Firth of Forth has been central to Scotland's energy history from coal and shale mines to power stations to Grangemouth refinery and North Sea pipelines. I'm leading a boat tour of the Forth with Jupiter Artland on Saturday 11 July. Find out more🔽 eventbrite.co.uk/e/energy-inf...

Energy Infrastructure Boat Tour

Do you want to know more about the oil Scotland produces?

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'A less than five-minutes-long Teams call with no opportunity to respond is how staff at the University of Dundee heard that their jobs, the courses that they teach and their livelihoods might be at risk. I ask members to think about that for a moment.' (Maggie Chapman (North East Scotland) 1/5

The Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament examines what the Scottish Government is doing, makes new laws on devolved matters and debates the issues of the day.

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It! Is! Here! Open Access (and already hoovered up by the scrapers no doubt such is our world) UK/EU paper copies will be available eventually but until then, EVERYONE now has free access! press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ill...

Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...

Big week coming up with events in Southampton, Lymington, Edinburgh, and Belfast before heading to the USA at the end of the month. Pete and I have some dates available in the summer and autumn in the US (and online). DM or email me.

My book now has a cover and it is all starting to feel very real. I just need to finish the proofs... 🗃️ #BookHistory #EarlyModern brill.com/display/titl...

Readers of Erasmus

"Readers of Erasmus" published on 18 Nov 2026 by Brill.

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After giving the audience at @natlibscot.bsky.social an exclusive preview, we are delighted to share the first taste of our editions of Thomas Pennant's Scottish Tours! (Click on "Show Pennant's Tours" after following the link below) editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk/tours

Ten years on from the Brexit vote: a new @yougov.co.uk poll finds that 77% of the British public have trust in the expertise of historians bit.ly/49I9NV7 It's heartening to hear that so many value, and certainly haven't had enough of, the historian as expert. #Skystorians 1/4

This, by @stephenkb.bsky.social, is by far the best thing I've read on all this since it all kicked off. Yet another reason, as if another one were needed, to sign up for his morning newsletter, which, btw, you can try for free here: www.ft.com/newsletter-s... (and no I'm not on commission!).

What Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policing

Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ

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Join us at the National Library of Scotland (@natlibscot.bsky.social) for a presentation on Thomas Pennant and the Origins of Scottish Tourism - and the public launch of the first parts of our new online editions of Pennant's Tours! Book for free via the link, 5:30-6:30 on Thursday June 4th.

Thomas Pennant and the origins of Scottish tourism | National Library of Scotland

Learn about Thomas Pennant's natural history focussed tour of 1769 and the 1772 voyage to the Hebrides illustrated by images from artist Moses Griffith.

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Peter Onuf and I are looking forward to launching Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours at @amrevmuseum.bsky.social on June 3! www.amrevmuseum.org/press-releas...

‘Books Open – for you to read and enjoy’ at the Wanlockhead Miners’ Subscription Library, the Museum of Lead Mining 3rd Friday at 13.00 and 3rd Sat 11:15 in April, May, Sept. 2026 / 3rd Friday at 13.15 and 3rd Sat at 10:15 in June, July, Aug. 2026. Details: www.leadminingmuseum.co.uk/events/books...

Books Open Days! | Museum of Lead Mining

To celebrate the 270th Anniversary of the Wanlockhead Miners’ Subscription Library, the Museum of Lead Mining invites you to –  ‘Books Open – for you to read and enjoy’  Our Library books are historic...

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⭐Online Event⭐ Join us on 13 April 2026 from 19:30 (UK) to hear Marc Mierowsky discuss his new book 'A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence (Yale University Press)' scottishhistorysociety.com/marc-mierows...

Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library opens for 2026 today, Wed 1 Apr 11am-4pm. So visit Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library, built from bequest of Robert Leighton. Open Mon-Sat 11am-4pm. Free admission - donations invited #Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling

WE NEED YOU! Would you like to write an article for the BARS Blog? We've got some ideas for April below! If you'd like to write a blog on one of these subjects, please do get in touch! Alternatively, if you'd like to pitch your own idea, don't be afraid to drop us a message!!

Any historians able to read the name in the pink box below? Letter of 1796 describes the arrival in Scotland of the 10-ish year old illegitimate daughter of an indigo planter and an Indian mother: '...our first visitor is ?? ???. She has a friendly honest affectionate Heart...' #Skystorians

The @scothistorysociety.bsky.social conference is always a great day! Saw an excellent selection of papers and I enjoyed presenting on the Leighton's administrative records and what we can learn from library minute book records.

📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library@leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Leighton Library Volunteer Guide Dr Josh Smith delivered a presentation at the Scottish History Society annual conference at the University of Edinburgh yesterday, entitled “Manadging Bishop Lightouns Library’: The Minute Book of the Leighton Library, Dunblane, 1734-1822”

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...