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Elizabeth Ewan

@kiritekatawa.bsky.social

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Scottish medieval and early modern gender historian, cat-lover and book-obsessed

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 4h

My colleague @HamishDarrah.bsky.social recording historic timbers from Black Bull Close, an urban renewal project in Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 by community enterprise The Ridge. Many of the lintels are re-used oak ships’ timbers. Yet to do the dendrochronology
#FindsFriday #buildings #timber #heritage #archaeology

Hamish is standing looking at a timber lintel on the floor and recording woodworking details. Photo copyright Coralie Mills

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Dr Joe McIntyre @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social · 4h

Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Turnstone Genealogy - Jane Barton @turnstonegenie.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 6: Gender
In Scotland, a monumental inscription relating to a married woman typically gives her full maiden name alongside the name of her husband. This doesn't mean she wasn't married! Some examples from #RutherglenCemetery #OPS.

On the left the gravestone of Mary Jess, wife of William Graham, and on the right the gravestone of Lilla Ethel Cable, wife of Harry Nixon. Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Gravestone of Nellie Gray, wife of Hugh Stewart, surrounded by autumn leaves. Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Gravestone of Susan Semple, wife of William Riddell. Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Gravestone of Ellen Simpson, wife of John Lister. Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 1d

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

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SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 1d

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!

Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

The Scottish History Society

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 2d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 3d

Winifred Drinkwater, 1st woman in world to hold a commercial #pilot's licence. Flew photographers over Loch Ness as they searched for Nessie, did air ambulance work on the Western Isles & flew an air search for a boat of kidnappers. d. #OTD 6 Oct 1996 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifre...

Winifred Drinkwater stood by plane propeller, fuselage marked Midland & Scottish Air Ferries Ltd

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Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social · 3d

Lilias of Ancrum

Priscilla Scott @brudhearg.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 6: Gender.
Local lore tells that this young woman joined the men to fight against the English near Ancrum in the Scottish Borders. '......Upon the English loons she laid monie thumps, An' when her legs were cuttit off, she fought upon her stumps...' c.1544

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Priscilla Scott @brudhearg.bsky.social · 3d

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PD Dr. Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 7d

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen)

Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invites ap...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 9d

RHS funding opportunity: David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People.

The Society's Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj

Closing date for the 2026 Fellowship: 6 March 2026

David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People - RHS

Launched in 2023, the David Berry Fellowship provides an annual award of up to £2,500 to undertake research on the history of Scotland and the Scottish people worldwide. Applications for the 2026 Fell...

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Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social · 10d

fascinating and also beautiful!

Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 11d

Cool colleagues doing cool stuff again - that's Dr Blackwell @earlymedieval.bsky.social nearly blurred out back there in this story of cool medieval finds from excavations at Eliean Donan Castle www.thenational.scot/news/2550068...

Rare medieval hair-styling tool found during Highland castle excavation

A RARE 13th-century tool for styling hair has been acquired by a museum after it was discovered in an excavation ...

www.thenational.scot

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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 11d

Rare medieval hair-styling tool found during Highland castle excavation

A RARE 13th-century tool for styling hair has been acquired by a museum after it was discovered in an excavation ...

www.thenational.scot

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 11d

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...

Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!

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Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social · 12d

Today a THREAD👇 of Scottish WWII sheroes who shone in adversity. 1st resistance fighter & nurse Mary Helen Young helped prisoners escape Nazi-occuped France. Killed in Ravensbruck, novelist, Simone St Clair, incarcerated with her said 'she kept her chin up' Mary we salute you./1

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 13d

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World- King's College London - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London

Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 13d

From @chrismpaton.bsky.social Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly. Extremely alarming legal saga involving US genealogy company Ancestry and National Records of Scotland re core Scottish genealogy and family history records. scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance...

Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly

From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.

scottishgenes.blogspot.com

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 16d

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Head of Research, Archives and Libraries at The British Museum

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Head of Research, Archives and Libraries on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social · 17d

sad to hear this - a kind and generous man and fine scholar

Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 17d

Saddened to learn that J.R (Jim) Miller passed away a little over a week ago. His scholarship on Indigenous history, I think it is fair to say, was extremely influential for many of us - and his survey textbooks provided an accessible entry point. www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com/obituaries/j...

James Miller Obituary September 11, 2025 - Saskatoon Funeral Home

View James Miller's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 17d

James Miller Obituary September 11, 2025 - Saskatoon Funeral Home

View James Miller's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17d

For one day only, the Blackadder Prayerbook – made for Glasgow’s first archbishop, Robert Blackadder, c. late 1400s – will be on display as part of Glasgow’s 850th birthday celebrations & @natlibscot.bsky.social’s centenary

29 Sept, Glasgow Cathedral. Free
#medievalsky
www.nls.uk/whats-on/bla...

Glasgow 850: The Blackadder Prayerbook at Glasgow Cathedral | National Library of Scotland

For one day only, the Blackadder Prayerbook, considered 'Glasgow's Book of Kells' returns home to Glasgow Cathedral. Visit it on 29 September.

www.nls.uk

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 18d

Amazing opportunity for a specialist librarian at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. The Crawford Collection really is outstanding #histSTM 📜🔭 fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Librarian

Salary: £36,650 per annum | Open Ended | Full Time/Part time | Closing Date: 28th September 2025

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20d

'In 2025, women are still only the focus of 12% of history lessons, while 59% feature no women at all. None. The named women who are taught are dominated by four exceptional figures – Elizabeth I and Mary I...Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Davison'. 2/2

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 20d

“Their novels interest me because of what I’m calling their domestic naturalism—an unrelenting, entirely matter-of-fact focus on the events of everyday life”

—Prof Juliet Shields on the late #C19th / early #C20th novels of Jane & Mary Findlater
#BookwormSat
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Book cover

Virgo Modern Classics
Jane & Mary Findlater
Crossriggs

Below the title is a painting by Daniel Macnee (1806–1882), titled A Lady in Grey (The Artist's Daughter, Later Mrs Wiseman). It shows a young woman sitting outside. She has dark hair and pale skin, and is looking up directly at the viewer. She is swathed in a voluminous grey-green dress, with wide sleeves and a high white collar tied with a black bow. She is sewing, and holding a piece of white fabric on her lap.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 20d

Harald (III) Sigurðsson, king of Norway, and Tostig Godwineson, former ealdorman in Northumbria, defeated the brothers Morcar and Edwin, ealdormen in Northumbria and Mercia respectively, at the Battle of Fulford, near York, #OTD in 1066. 📸British Museum #medievalsky

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 20d

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before”

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette

Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

news.harvard.edu

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 21d

Well this is an exceptionally good history job. Wonders never cease.

www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Research Chair in Transgender Studies - Victoria, British Columbia (CA) job with UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA | 398896

The University of Victoria invites applications for a Research Chair in Transgender Studies, a prestigious academic ...

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Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social · 21d

I have deleted my Academia.edu account due to the new Terms of Service. If you are interested in a publication, contact me directly.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 23d

Police would like to speak to a Señor Dalí who was seen in the vicinity.

A bike with the rear wheel warped in a way that is not very like Dali's floppy watches but reminds me of them.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 26d

Now reading 200+ pages of Ulhoa's correspondence while in Amsterdam, and found one surprisingly relatable 1662 passage to great Jewish financier Antonio Lopes Suasso:
"My lord, you must have known that chocolate is my sustance..." - goes on profusely thanking Suasso for a large chocolate delivery.

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