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drrussellnewton.bsky.social
Historian of Christianity (esp. early modern Scottish Protestantism) | Co-editor 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 (EUP) | Co-editor 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 (Boydell, 2021)
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A coup you say? 🔥💥 My new article with @historicaljnl.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social on John Owen, Puritan Politics, and the Fall of the Cromwellian Protectorate - bit.ly/3Xc5tae

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❗Deadline tomorrow, Fri 21 Feb❗ If you would like to give a paper at REMRA's 1st multidisciplinary conference (11-13 June 2025), don't forget to send your provisional title & short abstract to [email protected] by tomorrow, Fri 21 February! bit.ly/4arhSwx. See original post ⬇️ @thinkuhi.bsky.social

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CfP: This June @thinkuhi.bsky.social will be hosting the first REMRA online conference: Northern Narratives: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Early Modern Period in the North Atlantic and Baltic. Register your interest by 21 Feb.

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When your doctoral examiners’ newish books are both on sale, how can you resist?!

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More talk this week on AI vs human indexing. The book ‘INDEX, A History of the’ by @djbduncan.bsky.social has two indexes – a computer-generated one by automated software, and an index created by a human indexer (me). They are really not the same. (See also @indexers.bsky.social and #IndexSky.)

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Your friendly annual reminder that 'British' history includes more than just England ;-)

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Great history book haul this Christmas — the main challenge is deciding what to read first!

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Well, look at what just dropped through the letterbox 👀 Excited to get hold of a copy Sal Cipriano’s ‘The Universities of Scotland, Ireland, and New England during the British Civil Wars: Contested Seminaries’

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Tomorrow is the last day of @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social's 60% sale, which includes The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland. Use the code BB060 boydellandbrewer.com/978178327619...

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Good to be in the beautiful (and frosty) Highlands today!

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Grateful to finally get a copy of @kmschultz24.bsky.social’s book today!

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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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I've started a little open access dataset to help trace all the people who attended the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland between 1638 and 1654: generalassemblies.wikibase.cloud The idea is to grow this resource over time, add visualisations, write some guides on how it was built, &c

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Snowy day for the Autumn 2024 Scottish Church History Society conference

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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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go.bsky.app/43xNSFh Help me add more Scottish history people - reply to be added.

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All of the Scottish Church History issues on the EUP are currently free to access until the end of December! There's some great articles here that are well worth your time. Happy reading! www.euppublishing.com/loi/sch

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Some news... I'm delighted (and still a bit surprised) to have been asked to serve as co-editor of Scottish Church History. SCH is a terrific journal publishing brilliant research, so I'm thrilled to be taking on the editorial responsibilities alongside Scott Spurlock. www.euppublishing.com/loi/sch

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Socks with books, and books about books and bookshops! I think my in laws have the measure of me

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We are thrilled to announce the cfp for our conference "Preachers, Hearers, Readers & Scribes" in Oct. 2024 at Cambridge & Boston, MA! Deadline: 1 Jan 2024. See gemmsproject.blogspot.com/2023/10/call... Please share widely! #earlymodern #17thC

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Thoroughly enjoyed speaking to the Scottish Baptist History Project this morning on ‘Spurgeon and the Scots’. A very kind and gracious audience, esp. as I attempted to be a nineteenth-century historian (fear not — I still managed to smuggle in plenty of early modern references).

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First post! I’m a historian of Christianity, mainly researching early modern Scottish Protestantism. My PhD focused on Scottish biblical exegesis & my postdoc on preaching. I co-edited “The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland” & am now working on an intellectual bio of Rev Dr William Guild (1586-1657).

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