cat king, germany, 15th century

Folk Horror | Call for Submissions - We’re looking for four stories to join the curated selection by Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan which will launch our new series, Beyond and Within, next Summer. flametr.com/3DivlqJ

Watching Chris Ramsey’s Who Do You Think You Are episode, and remembering my own great granddad’s experiences at Gallipoli. Here’s something I wrote about it. vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/rem… #WDYTYA #WW1

Trumpet-blowing alert! Delighted to report I’ve signed a contract with @cambridgeup for my book, ‘M.R. James and the Ghost Story Men: A Cambridge Tale’ . Chapters on MRJ, the Bensons, Arthur Gray, E.G. Swain, R.H. Malden, A.N.L. Munby.

LongCovid at 1.3yrs: New Wheels! Acceptance is key to living with #LongCovid, accepting that new you can’t do what old you could. Unable to walk any distance, today I accepted that it’s better to be out in a wheelchair than to not be outside at all. A very happy family outing!

I will be almost totally off here now, just popping in occasionally to stop my account being deleted. I can be found via my website vivdunstan.co.uk, on Mastodon at @[email protected], on Facebook, and I have a blog for academic musings vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com

A nice & very welcome bit of academic news today. Part of my book from many years ago now, 'The Pleasures of Horror', is hopefully going to be reprinted in a new 'Horror Theory Reader'. It'll be material from a chapter about horror fandom (which makes sense given my other work!)

Travelling back to Scotland and I have just finished Finkel's The Art Thief and I am so cross. In 1996 Stéphane Breitwieser stole Corneille de Lyon's Madeleine of France, Queen of Scotland, and it is now suspected to have been destroyed by being put through garbage disposal😭😭

Shingles vaccination is being rolled out in the UK to include anyone over 50 severely immunosuppressed. Here is the Scottish Chief Medical Officer letter. Similar arrangements are being made in other parts of the UK. A non live vaccine is to be used. sehd.scot.nhs.uk/details.asp?Pu…

Doodles in the accounts of the royal household, 1530s: A unicorn, thistle and rose. Archivist Dr Alison Rosie explained what these symbols may have meant, when King James IV had recently wed Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII. Find out more 👇 bit.ly/NRSDoodles

Here are eligible groups for Covid booster vaccine in UK in Autumn 2023. Healthy people restricted to only over 65s get it. But younger people eligible on health grounds (inc immunosuppressed) will get it & household contacts of immunosuppressed & carers. gov.uk/government/new…

normal bird, france, 11th century

James III, King of Scots, was crowned on this day in 1460 at Kelso Abbey.

Please RT Are you interested in #Scottish History. University of Dundee Humanities at UoD is accepting applications for our Masters Programme in Sc History by Distance Learning & 2 undergraduate courses in modern Sc #History from 1707 and #medieval history. Information on University of Dundee web site.

Happy to field any questions about this. Cutting-edge MLitt programme which you can do fully from home. Modules cover 'making the kingdom', witchcraft, Mary Queen of Scots, Jacobitism, Atlantic slavery, national identity, and lots more. Info here: dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate/s…

Thanks J. Michael Straczynski - loved Babylon 5 The Road Home (my Blu-ray copy arrived early). Fab storytelling, lovely to see old faces (in some cases with new, but good, voices) again. So much fun. Thank you very much.

Morning! Time for #MapMonday. Here is a 'Plan of the City of Perth and Environs. Surveyed by order of the Magistrates and Council' by Robert Reid, 1809.🗺️ #ExploreYourArchive

I'll be on Good Morning Scotland tomorrow morning about 7.40, and Reporting Scotland later in the day talking about problems with archives. (Well one archive, you can probably guess which one.)