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Support for historians at mid-career: the Society invites applications for its 'Funded Book Workshop' programme bit.ly/4fYQcRC Workshops enable authors of a 2nd or 3rd monograph to hold a day-long discussion of a book MS with 6 readers of their choosing. Closing date: Friday 11 July #Skystorians

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Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century This collection offers a range of perspectives on the present and future of digital editing and publishing. Available open access and in print: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #digitalhumanities #openaccess #digitaleditions #digitalpublishing

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We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

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Like the bairns of Falkirk, ye mind naithing but mischief. —from Allan Ramsay’s A COLLECTION OF SCOTS PROVERBS (1737) WARNING: “Some amang the gentle vulgar, that are mair nice than wise, may tartle at the braidness, or, (as they name it) coarse expressions.”

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Anarchy in the UK: OUP hoists its standard for radical polymath #WilliamGodwin, author of Political Justice, 1793, & Caleb Williams, 1794; & (in timespan of this volume) Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, Of Population, History of the Commonwealth of England; & many more works. At press.

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As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making mane; The tane unto the t’other say, “Where sall we gang and dine the day?” “The Twa Corbies”, first published in Scott’s MINSTRELSY vol. 2 (1810), is a darker, grimmer, #Scots version of the English ballad “The Three Ravens” #BookWormSat

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Robert Fergusson looking canty and braw in the Edinburgh sunshine this evening @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social @rhonabrown.bsky.social 💐

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It's brilliant to see @scotunipress.bsky.social's second published book out in the wild! 'Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Century' will be of interest to those working in Digital Humanities, scholarly editing and much more besides... Details here: books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...

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Check out the Barbauld:Voicing Dissent conference poster 🗣️🗣️

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The cat’s out of the bag! 🐈‍⬛ LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my weird, slippery biography of Muriel Spark, will be out in April next year. A huge thank you to the team at @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for helping me bring it to life. Please tell your libraries and favourite bookshops!

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Ian Hamilton Finlay Born 28 Oct 1925 Centenary Celebrations, Exhibitions, Events & Publications Poet, artist, visionary, avante gardener. 'He was the greatest Scottish artist of the post-war era - and among the least well-known.' - Magnus Linklater www.littlesparta.org.uk/centenary-ce...

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Edwin Muir’s Poor Tom: An Emerging View of Class, Community and Chips! My first talk on Edwin Muir outside of the PGR community. Thank you to the EICSP for asking me. It is amazing, & slightly nerve wracking, to be asked to be part of such a great panel. #edwinmuir www.eicsp.org/events/event...

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If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.

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I’ve written a piece for the NTS looking at forgeries in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum made by the prolific Edinburgh forger ‘Antique Smith’. Smith flooded the late-19thC collectibles market with fakes of major writers, incl. Burns, Byron, Dickens and Scott. 👇 www.nts.org.uk/collections/...

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Our second free online seminar on 24/04/25 7pm will be given by @thinkuhi.bsky.social lecturer Dr Paul Malgrati on The Caledonian Antisyzygy Register: tinyurl.com/4wbrpn5b

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#AcademicSky Academics, taking on that next, next project. This you?

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For #NationalTeaDay find out about a prime tea-drinking spot in Parliament: Bellamy's. Read about the popular refreshment rooms here:

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Next month! Part of the talk series connected to the Ian Hamilton Finlay show at @nationalgalleries.bsky.social Modern Two. Hope to see some of you there. www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/i...

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James Francis Edward Stuart, the Jacobite pretender and father of Bonnie Prince Charlie, kept this medal case on his desk while living in exile in Rome. It depicts the Stuart royal arms and would've originally contained medals of James and his family. It's now in the Hunterian collection.

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The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

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SAVE the DATE for a new SELCIE Symposium!🦉 6 June 2025, 12.00-17.00, University of Edinburgh. 'Nature Nurture: Edinburgh's Childgarden Heritage, Cultures of Care, and Scottish Women's Writing' 🌱 Details & booking info coming soon! #scottishliterature #children #nature #edimburgh @asls.org.uk

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I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising an open ended lectureship in Early Modern English Literature at Glasgow. Details here, and please share: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

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Bonjour, les Alpes 🌞

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Editing Robert Fergusson 22 May @uofglasgow.bsky.social Free, ticketed Prof @rhonabrown.bsky.social & Dr @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social will discuss the complexities of editing Robert Fergusson (1750–74) & how we handle his tragic biography & his publication history www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/editing-ro...

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4 Apr 1508: Andrew Myllar prints off the first printed book in #Scotland #otd (eebo)

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Hello everyone! RIISS (Aberdeen's Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies) is now on Bluesky. We're excited to see familiar faces and make new friends. Please do give us a follow if you're interested in Scottish and/or Irish Studies.

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2 new posts in English Literature in our School of Critical Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social: * Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... *Lecturer in Postcolonial or Indigenous Literature www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... #AcademicSky

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Join us for the Galt Society's annual lecture in Irvine, Scotland, with Toronto's Professor Angela Esterhammer and her paper 'Discovering the Transatlantic Galt'. Tickets can be booked by contacting the Society's Secretary, Dr Craig Lamont. Full details are 👇 thejohngaltsociety.com/2025/04/03/l...

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It could be an April Fool but, apparently, it’s publication day for this wee book. Thanks to all at @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for bringing it into the world!

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New podcast from La Revue Ecossaise (in French). Our 2nd episode on Scottish waters, looking at the quality of Scotland’s acqua and uisge beatha - with references to Loch Katrine, Irn Bru, gin, and a fresh translation of Robert Fergusson’s poem “Caller Oyster” 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on.soundcloud.com/Jwdg5CsodcPy...

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Please join us at our forthcoming exhibition, 'Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White', running April-June 2025 Launch event on April 8th at Gilbert White's House and Gardens, Selborne! (@gilbertwhites.bsky.social)

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Gorgeous day in Aberdeen at the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University, chatting all things Robert Fergusson. 🌞

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📣Calling all #ECRs who have completed their PhD, but who are not currently employed in a full-time academic post - the @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Matters fellowship at the Uni of Edinburgh is now live! See below for details ⬇️ victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/n...

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Upcoming IASSL webinar on 20 March! Kirsteen McCue and @paulmalgrati.bsky.social will talk about 'BOSLIT: Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation: Creating Digital Futures and Networks', the history of BOSLIT, and its new beginnings. All welcome! scotlit-iassl.org/2025/03/04/b...

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Looking forward to seeing Aberdeen friends next week to talk about editing the works of Robert Fergusson. Did you know... Fergusson is most often associated with Edinburgh - his beloved 'Auld Reikie' - but his family originated in Aberdeenshire. Will be good to be in the Fergusson homeland!

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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

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🏵️ Announcing the 2024 Jack Medal! 🏵️ Eleoma Bodammer @eleoma.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social was awarded the medal for the chapter ‘John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895): Translating Faust I in Scotland (1834).' Congratulations! 🎉 Read her full statement about the award: tinyurl.com/2ac53d5j

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We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

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The Douglas Cause of the 1760s was arguably Scotland's greatest legal controversy of the century and which ended in both wild celebrations and riots. This huge volume is a set of the legal papers from the case belonging to Robert McQueen, one of the advocates in the action.. (1)

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Spoiler alert… probably all three! Project Fergusson had a great time at the National Galleries of Scotland last year, discussing 18thC Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson, art and his artist friends with curator Liz Louis. You can watch our conversation by following the link 👇

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It's the final week of our #MedievalWomen exhibition and we've been working on restoring our Medieval and Renaissance Women digitisation project online. The first manuscripts are now available! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

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