Glad that our most expensive souvenir from our time in the UK arrived in good shape. She barely snuck through the Port of Baltimore in time 😅

🥳Delighted to announce the programme for Histories of Scottish Politics in the Age of Union, c.1700-1945.

🙌Crammed with brilliant speakers talking about their ace research.

⏲️Join us 23-24 July Durham History. Registration opening in May.

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In Boston today, the focus of celebrations are on St Patrick’s Day, but it’s also officially Evacuation Day.

Unable to dislodge the colonial guns on Dorchester Heights, Gen William Howe abandoned Boston on 17 March 1776, taking with him 11K soldiers and several hundred loyalists

Thrilled and relieved to say that I’ve submitted my thesis. It’s been quite the journey, and I’m incredibly grateful for my time in Oxford

Full thesis draft sent to my supervisor just now.

That, my friends, is a Christmas miracle

How about that from the Boys in Maroon

Looking through to All Souls College library in the December afternoon light

This PhD student’s year wrapped. You guys are listening to music?

Happy St Andrew’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

(not there now. just feverishly writing about it)

Proud to be an owner of the greatest football club in Scotland

Moved by the spirit, perhaps?

In April 1796, Linlithgow's Seceding minister Alexander Oliver was cited for operating an illicit still

The presbytery found it 'very unbecoming' of a minister of the gospel, given poor recent harvests and his breach of the revenue laws

A #Trafalgar Day 🧵:

Still amazed sometimes that I get to write my thesis in a building where people worshipped for hundreds of years