Dr Graeme Millen
@weegiegraeme.bsky.social
Working class, Glaswegian 🏴, Historian of late 17th century specialising in Scotland, warfare, martial culture, identity and migration. Former HE lecturer. Publishing on Jacobites, the Highland War (1689-1691) & Scots-Dutch Brigade 🇳🇱 All views my own.
Now that @bsky.app have pinned tweets, high time for self-promotion of book that came out earlier this year w/Elodie Peyrol, Agnes Delahaye, and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke from @manchesterup.bsky.social : manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167330/
Manchester University Press - Agents of European overseas empires
Agents of European overseas empires - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Agents of European overseas empires by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber
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Finally, I really feel for my students. The OU courses at Dundee provided people with working commitments and disabilities an alternate pathway into Higher Education. I had a similar path into HE, starting at foundational courses after flunking my Highers. Those paths are increasingly disappearing.
Dr Graeme Millen@weegiegraeme.bsky.social · last yr.Well, that’s that. After a mere three years in UK HE, I’ve finally lost my last job - a casual zero hours (and for the last year) contract-less job working at the University of Dundee providing OU online courses. I’d like to say I’m surprised but the writing has been on the wall for some time #17thc
Well, that’s that. After a mere three years in UK HE, I’ve finally lost my last job - a casual zero hours (and for the last year) contract-less job working at the University of Dundee providing OU online courses. I’d like to say I’m surprised but the writing has been on the wall for some time #17thc
The peerless Galt authored Ringan Gilhaize which features the lives of three Scottish Protestants from the Reformation to the Revolution. The concluding chapters take place during the Highland War (1689-1691) and features the Battle of Killiecrankie as its climax. A phenomenal historical novel!
Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · last yr.A 🎂 🧵 for John Galt (1779–1839), born #OTD, 2 May. His novels & short stories are sharp political satires & fascinating chronicles of Scottish life. Read our INTERNATIONAL COMPANION, ed Gerard Carruthers & Colin Kidd – in print or online via @projectmuse.bsky.social 1/6 asls.org.uk/publications...
It's now just one week until our Call for Papers closes - have you got your abstract in? We welcome online and in-person papers relating to the Highlands - or Highlanders - and Britain since 1725. Please send your abstract (150-300 words) to highlandsconference@gmail.com by 5th May!
Happy Konigsdag tae all my Dutch followers! Wish I was there, mibbe next year! 🏴🧡🇳🇱
My barber has been exponentially improved by this new member of staff
Been a busy month thus far, working away on another chapter and the usual marking but also secured two job interviews for the end of the month (outwith academia) and been working on a really exciting postdoc fellowship application. It’s on the diaspora and got some big Scots-Dutch elements, so 🤞
Does anyone have a successful AHRC Catalyst Bid application they might be willing to share with me? #AcademicSky #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
Now available Open Access! The 1628 #Stralsund Medal celebrates the lifting of an Imperial siege of a Baltic coastal city by #Scottish troops in #Swedish & #Danish service. #ThirtyYearsWar www.academia.edu/resource/wor... 🗃 #Skystorians @jtheibault.bsky.social @vor400.bsky.social #EarlyModern
The 1628 Stralsund Gold Medal: It’s re-discovery and an ensuing riddle in material culture
This article follows the rediscovery of a medal struck to celebrate the lifting of the Siege of Stralsund 1628. It overturns prevailing myths about the battle and the route by which the medal was redi...
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What ethical responsibilities do we bear when we write about war? This is one of the questions we’re posing in our June colloquium on early modern war narratives. CFP here and the deadline is 11th April! Please share widely and consider submitting an abstract! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...
Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. CfP deadline: 11th April.
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Who's joining us in Cardiff for our Annual Welsh Lecture? Come hear Ruth Canning discuss 'The “Irish Problem” in English Colonial History', with a response from @lloydbowen.bsky.social & chaired by our Wales Rep @mrfw17thc.bsky.social! June 18, 2025. All welcome! www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ir...
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
Steve Murdoch@profmurdoch.bsky.social · last yr.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 🗃
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 🗃
IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship | IASH
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Fascinating for any biscuit historians with a special interest in Empire Biscuits. Also includes my grandma's lovely handwritten recipe!
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵@threadinburgh.scot · last yr.The thread about the Empire Biscuit and its evolution into a distinctly Scottish staple I usually write about Edinburgh and Leith local history, indeed that's probably how you came to be reading this, but regular listeners will probably know by now that I occasionally like to foray into the realms…
An excellent Saturday spent in Auld Reekie at the Scottish History Society’s AGM. The Presidential lecture touching on John Galt’s brilliant Ringan Gilhaize, Viscount Dundee and Killiecrankie. Taken just before retiring to Sandy Bell’s pub, a guid evening.
Fellow #EarlyModern #skystorians, following @weegiegraeme.bsky.social and @bethanyqualls.bsky.social's lead on the #17thC and #18thC hashtags, I have created a feed for the #16thC. Please pin the feed, use the hashtag, and tell your friends! You can find feeds in the menu to your left.
Dipping back again a bit into M&B Bannerlord and it's striking to me how the simplifications it makes (many shared with the Total War series) distort pre-gunpowder tactics and the uses of units. 1/
Off to New York today, almost there, for the holidays. Looking forward to seeing my partner and her family. Pictured earlier was the mandatory Vitamin T.
William III, with one hand upon a blazing altar, presents a cap of Liberty to Hibernia, who is kneeling before him & resting upon her shield. James II & a French soldier are fleeing, leaving on the ground a broken anchor, sceptre, sword, and yoke. (British Museum, both 1690)
With a significant effort and some excellent feedback, I have finished revising a chapter on the Highland War for a forthcoming volume on the Jacobites. So, it only felt appropriate to crack one of these tonight. #Skystorians #earlymodern #17thc #JacobiteStudies
I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long sixteenth century. Please share, contact me with suggestions for other people to include, and of course if you would like to be included yourself. #skystorians #SixteenthCentury #StarterPack #history #EarlyModern go.bsky.app/U4CEeWN
There are some wonderful scholars on this list. Including the fabulous Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social
Dr Graeme Millen@weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 2y agoAs I tested out the feed for the seventeenth century, I thought why not take it another step with the recent addition of starter packs - so, here it is, a small starter pack for all #17thC historians currently on the platform. I’ll add more as we go! go.bsky.app/JebcwC1
Hugh Mackay underlines the value of experienced officers and soldiers, like James, in his memoir. He notes his brother ‘was killed upon the spot with severals of the old souldiers pickmen, who stood by him after the shot had run away’. Killiecrankie was a defeat because inexperienced soldiers fled.
James Mackay became Lieutenant-Colonel of his brother’s regiment of the Scots-Dutch Brigade. He was killed fighting as part of that regiment (the 1st) against the Jacobites during the Highland War at the Battle of Killiecrankie, 27th July 1689. #Skystorians #earlymodern #17thc #JacobiteStudies
His younger brother James enlisted directly in the military of Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice. Probably around the same time or just after the end of the siege. He seems to have served well before joining his brother in the Dutch Republic in 1678. #Skystorians #earlymodern #17thc
