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Early modern historian. PhD (Edinburgh) on Reformation in NE Scotland. New projects on British humanitarianism, Mediterranean captives, & African presence. Clergy in Early Modern Scotland: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783276196/the-clergy-in-early-
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Is this meant to be satire?

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Vulgar indeed.

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The prescience of Parks & Rec. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki4l...

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Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch with his Cat by @ FatCatArt on Instagram (via H. Raeburn).

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Churchill MacCulloch!

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Dear experts of historical handwriting, should you come across this post, could you tell me what you think the name of this signatory could be? She was a young French woman, perhaps of aristocratic lineage, who wrote the letter in question in 1914.

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Apparently my book, 'Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland', is now available for pre-order! Use discount code NEW30 for 30% off! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-serious...

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A long awaited sequel, John M. Gilbert, 'Elite Hunting Culture and Mary, Queen of Scots', Boydell (note discount via download flyer): boydellandbrewer.com/978183765229...

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In awe of Chris' novel approach here to the familiar GA records. Never would've occurred to me to quantify participants' speech, much less map it!

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Ah let me talk about hats/ hair in just about every film

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great funding opportunity here

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Networks & Networking in Scottish Studies: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Ewan Exploring networks – from kinship, to urban administration, to communication, to legal networks of royal justice & crime – within medieval & early modern Scotland Open Access books.lib.uoguelph.ca/networksandn...

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This situation at the University of Dundee is crazy. A huge slice of the city's population is made up of students and staff. The Scottish government can't possibly just let this situation drift. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

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Also applies to Reviewer 2. By @ glenbaxterartist on instagram.

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Watch Pachinko on Apple TV+. It's deserving of the highest praise. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GgK...

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Catching up on the regular series of University Challenge and wasn't expecting a question about the Five Articles of Perth! I'd even classify that as niche.

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My wife's cousin popped around earlier. Conversation was challenging. This is a person who once tried to google a photograph of Oliver Cromwell.

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A group of us students at the University of Edinburgh are trying to relaunch UoE's Late Antique & Medieval PGR society, while also moving LAMPS's old tw account to bsky. If you are a medievalist based in Scotland or Northern England (or elsewhere, why not!), please consider following 👇 #medievalsky

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It's a beauty!

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Noticed this rather incongruous picture in the film Out of the Past (1947). Perhaps Holbein's portrait of John Gage? www.npg.org.uk/collections/...

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By way of bluesky introduction, I might mention that I research architecture and material culture in Scotland, and here are some notes on Lorenzo Pomarelli of Siena, who did a bit of military engineering for Mary of Guise in 1555 on the isle of Inchkeith: vanishedcomforts.org/2018/10/06/i...

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We are delighted to announce and welcome Edinburgh University Press & its prestigious collection of titles to Scotland's History Online - making it THE premier resource for Scottish historical research. tannerritchie.com/databases/sho

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Epistolary Culture in Early Modern Scotland Research Network, organised by myself & the wonderful Laura Doak & @pomuirch.bsky.social 🪶 Keep in touch with folks of all disciplines who use letters in research, in collections care, in creative pursuits etc. and find out about events and opportunities

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That sinking feeling even thinking about it.

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Chris is doing some fantastic work on the mid-seventeenth century General Assemblies & gave a beautifully textured paper today at the Scottish Church History conference about the experiential realities of being a general assembly commissioner. This will be a valuable resource as it develops 👇

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Our bursary scheme is open for applications! £750 available to early career researchers, independent scholars, or PhD students working on women's studies in our period (1558-1837). Deadline: 15 Dec 2024. Please spread the word! #funding #ECR #PhD Details at: womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/

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Lots of Early Modern gems here. And have a free read of my article on Catholic recusant women! www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

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While avoiding social media, I've been working on a new project on the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland between 1638-1660. Here are a some related publications to whet your appetite:

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I'm not a 20thC historian, but know enough to be concerned by the author's claims that "1940 produced a first great debate over America’s world role" or that Lindbergh had more than a "stubborn respect for German order" & sometimes trafficked "in stereotypes." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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A gallows has appeared on the streets of Edinburgh… (It’s for a Guillermo del Toro movie.)

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Checking recent ish academic history journal issues, and there’s an interesting paper in Continuity and Change about Poor Relief as ‘Improvement’: “Moral and Spatial Economies of Care in Scotland, c.1720s-1790s” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Another batch of fiction duds: The Orphan Master's Son, The Fraud, The Book Thief, and The Ghost of the Mary Celeste. Will stick with my non-fiction default for awhile.

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Nobody does polemic quite like Calvinists. In describing what it sees as the disorderliness of worship in the Anglican Church, the 1572 Puritan pamphlet An Admonition to the Parliament claims "they toss the Psalms in most places like tennis balls." #earlymodern 🗃️

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Inadvertent 1834 Church of Scotland General Assembly philosophical poetry: From the parish of Harris, in the same Presbytery, there is no return.

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For International Women's Day, here's my g-grandmother's university graduation profile. Majoring in chemistry & minoring in math, she had some sage advice: I don’t believe in walking on the campus when all the boys are in the laboratory.

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I've two notable leap day entries in my records: 1632: Aberdeen burgh council restored to Thomas Cowye, kirk sacristar, from the reader the considerable disciplinary fines & kirk service fees. 1644: Midcalder KS reported that it had collected from parishioners £47 for Irish refugees in Scotland.

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