Leftovers: A Short Story It is Sunday. You feel domestic. You make some yummy food so you can nibble on it all week. Such a good idea! A fridge filled with healthy food. #virtue It is Thursday. You have been eating the same food for four days. You order takeaway. #guilt

A reminder that tonight’s scheduled seminar has been cancelled. Next up for the centre, we have Joanna Kopaczyk discussing ‘Polonia Scotorum colonia: Scottish early modern emigrants in a multilingual setting’. Join us on Tuesday 19 November at 5.30!

Happy Christmas from Hector! Here’s the only photo where he’s actually sat still for a second because I finally offered the sausages as a bribe 🎄

Burns Night at the Museum 2020 kicking off! The Hunterian #BurnsNightattheMuseum

The Sixth Annual John Durkan Memorial Lecture will take place on Tuesday 24 March 2020, at 5.30pm. Professor Michael Lynch will speak on ‘Revisiting the Scottish Reformation: a search for answers or for the right questions?’.

Call for papers for the conference ‘Beyond the Pale and Highland Line: New Narratives in Archipelagic History c1300-c1610', to be held in Glasgow 18-19 June 2020. For more information, please see below.

Two new blogs! Hannah Pyle recaps our recent seminars by Professor Caroline McCracken-Flesher and Professor Tom Devine. Find them both here: cscs.academicblogs.co.uk

Seeing cafés and restaurants shut is making me so sad. They give so much joy, and the Govt endangering staff with wishy-washy advice is awful. We all need to be safe, but when this is over I'm going to spend SO much time/money in the places I love, I just hope they survive. 🍽️🍷

Delighted to see my recent article on 'Carlyle and Calvinism' now open to public. Re-examining Carlyle's Calvinist imagination which posits the 19c British Whigs as 'spiritual Hippopotamuses'... Thos. & Jane Carlyle Scottish Network for Religion & Literature UofG Scottish Literature Society IASSL @scotlit

We are mourning the loss and celebrating the great legacy of Douglas Gifford . He is a foundational figure in the study of Scottish Literature at Glasgow. It is heartwarming to see so many fond reflections on his teaching, his scholarship, and his warmth.

First full week on the new post doc 😊 and I am working on a Ewan M'Gabhar who is not who he seems to be and his magical 🧙‍♂️ goat 🐐 who is... exactly what it appears to be, that is a magical goat. Love goats.

Tickets are available for a two-day online seminar on the cultural history of Mary Queen of Scots, to be held on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 September. For more information and to book, click here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/memorialisin…

Hector decided to chew a hole through his towel and insert his head through it...and so was born Super Hector: the defender of cheese, sausages, tissues and basically anything else he can get his paws on no matter how many times you tell him no

Doesn’t matter what time of day it is or what I’m working on, Hector will always appear to make sure I’m safely guarded from the outside world (or maybe he’s making sure I keep writing)

Today's the day!! 250 years old and evergreenly brilliant! Happy Birthday #TheEttrickShepherd and what a,lovely way to start the day. Thanks for this celebration piece BBC South Scotland Giancarlo Rinaldi James Robertson and our Dr Valentina Bold FSA Scot and see you at 4 for #JHJ2020! bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…