Well if overseas employers sustain most highly paid creative arts jobs then the UK sets them up to fail. Berlin’s budget in this area is more than competitive with UK allocations

Check out 'Allan Ramsay’s Edinburgh' this summer The Georgian House NTS -part of Ramsay & Edinburgh Fashion exhibition- Ramsay & Edinburgh 1680-1750 Rhona Brown Craig Lamont Dr Robertson-Kirkland
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Congratulations to all new Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows on behalf of SAHA - & special mention to new Corresponding Fellow Ann Rigney MAE KNAW HonMRIA- a fine scholar of Scottish Studies and a pioneer of the study of cultural memory in Europe. Craig Lamont IASSL Association for Scottish Literature

Delighted to see & to have supported Armando Iannucci elected Hon Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh. Armando Ianucci has an unerring eye for power and its sharp elbows and soft underbelly. One senior ex cabinet minister told me he & others viewed The Thick of It as a 'documentary'- deserved praise!

Next month our Executive Director Peter Jackson will take part in an event as part of the 'Talking Europe' festival organised by European Movement in Scotland. A panel of academics & diplomats will look at the future of European security. More on our Blog: scga.scot/2024/04/06/eur…

Happy #TartanDay 🙂a celebration of #Scotland 's contribution to North America, linked to the date of the Declaration of Arbroath and its possible influence on the US Declaration of Independence. Founded in Nova Scotia 1987, it was adopted in the US as Senate Resolution 155 in 1998

Very very sorry to hear of the death yesterday of Chris Williams, longtime friend, fine historian and university leader, former chair of IrishHumanities & Head of College UCC Ireland- terrific Welsh historian. Strange to lose his benevolent, curious cynicism for good. Ave atque vale.

Douglass was instrumental in the incorporation of 'A Man's a Man' as one of the central anthems of Abolition Robert Burns C21

Looking forward to speaking on 'The Case for Scotland: Place and Provenance Economy' at Paisley Food Heritage Symposium 12 April organized by Dr Lindsay Middleton is Well Fed&Well Read. The place of food in cultural heritage is still inconsistent in Scotland Joan McAlpine -globeinndumfries.co.uk/taste-our-best/

New National Trust for Scotland resource Robert Burns Online with 2700 items catalogued launched with support from major Scottish donor & NTS USA: a great new archive for Burns Studies Robert Burns C21 Pauline Mackay Gerard Carruthers Craig Lamont Rhona Brown Ronnie Young
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I have known Isla Jack 🧡 for 25 years- a lovely person like her parents and a delight to have family support for the Jack Prize since it was started at @IASSL in 2017 in Ronnie's memory. heraldscotland.com/opinion/150586…

Two years ago, I wrote a post that went viral and was translated into various languages. The post was about Ukraine's determination to fight to the end.

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Well done Suchitra Choudhury - really important work on Scotland & India

There are people on here who deny the existence of Scots of colour. Read a history book, they say. Well, racists, the people who write history books want a word……

Tremendous outcome- very suitably going to an aul freen o Ronnie's an mine- Jamie Reid Baxter, a champion of Renaissance Scotland's music and writing since the 1970s.

Peter McLagan, MP for Linlithgowshire from 1865, was Scotland’s first Black parliamentarian & supported women’s suffrage and Home Rule

Thank you ! Association for Scottish Literature Edinburgh University Press History Scotland 18th Century Studies British Association for Romantic Studies

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Happy Easter-a splendid opening day yesterday for new Perth Museum with 3000 visitors & 2 unicorns; 1633 Glovers' dress for Charles I's visit & reworked embossed C16 leather among highlights. Nice to see a certain phrase, & I would be better off if there was copyright in title!

Join our Museums in the Metaverse project team UofGARC as a ‘3D Optimisation Technician’ and help optimise 3D assets for use in an XR platform for Cultural Heritage! Deadline 22 April! Link 👀:

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