🚨 LAST CHANCE 🚨

We're looking to finalise our 2024-5 webinar programme over the next couple of weeks, so if you have any last-minute proposals for a History Scotland webinar, please get in touch ASAP!

Fun Fact: Edinburgh 1581, David Schang, a burgess wright, was banished from the town for claiming he was able to locate lost items by the power of thought – ‘causit thame to belief he could tell of things tynt’.

I'm 'reading' an early modern German medical text ('Arzneibuch', Wellcome MS. 990), which means I'm just looking at pictures, and I'm so confused. CW for premodern images of wounds and body horror. See e.g. 💩 for eyes?

This is the first peer-reviewed publication from our AHRC project on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern England, so here's a short thread to introduce it... 🧵
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Mary Queen of Scots' silver casket restored - but its secrets hold firm scotsman.com/heritage-and-r…

this looks amazing! Sierra Dye Dr. Mikki Brock Janay Nugent Dr Cathryn R Spence

Ready for a busy week after a lovely weekend of forests & fireside chats with an old friend 🤗

Save the humanities from the depredations of Big Academic Publishing.

Professor of Ethics Nick Agar speaks on the increasing amounts of money that Big Academic Publishing demands from New Zealand Universities and proposes a solution.

Find out more 👉 brnw.ch/21wJ2ml

📚 For #ThankYouForLibrariesDay watch video about Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library, bequest of 17th century churchman & academic Robert Leighton, who left huge personal collection of books, & money, to build library in Dunblane
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Makes me giggle too 🤭

This is so so so sad… and outrageous!

Most of these people haven’t even written the bloody books!

A woman we don’t know nearly enough about! Her devotional writings were still cited as an influence on Catholic converts in the late 1680s.

Research morning off to a flying start by missing the train and then falling up the station steps trying to catch the next one 🏆

Great to see this from Robbie Tree!

Records of the golden eagle, 1529-1772 CE. Few recorders at that time could distinguish them from sea eagles, but the historical sources we have show that they used to have a wider distribution than they do today. 🦅💚 Map from my #AtlasofEarlyModernWildlife

'Whatever talent we may possess will dissappear if we are too lazy to use it. If it lies idle, the sword will soon be coated with rust' - Gerald of Wales (1146-1223).

It’s a very serious working lunch Dr Jade Scott!

let's bring back this early modern zinger:

Another chance to listen, if you missed the first time.

Scottish medieval/early modern title deeds anyone? How would you translate 'villa' in the ubiquitous phrase 'in villa et territorio de...'? The Scots 'toun', meaning a farming settlement, >a house, < a village, would be good, but few people understand it to mean that now.