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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 19h

✒️ New on the blog

@sententiaepauli.bsky.social chats to EUP about his new book: Henry Maine’s Ancient Law as an Expression of Victorian Humanism.

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Q&A with Paul du Plessis on Henry Maine’s Ancient Law

My monograph aims to revisit the book with the central question: what did Maine believe he was doing when he wrote Ancient Law?

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 3d

Join us for this event on Friday. Hybrid.

www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Utilitas - The Word That Changes Everything? | Edinburgh Law School

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Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social · 8d

Tonight!

Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social · 8d

Tonight come along to hear me in conversation at The Georgian House #Edinburgh with Lisa Williams - we’ll be discussing some Scottish #Heiresses from my new book, including the one who ended up in an Edinburgh debtors’ sanctuary…

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 17d

Love a historical kitchen? Tune into #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems on Radio 4 tomorrow to go 'below stairs' in an eighteenth-century country house. Our guide is Mary Leapor, a labouring class poet who worked in domestic service. Beneath the worlds of Bridgerton & Jane Austen - who did the washing up?

Pictures of historical kitchens.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jsc2

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Stair Society @stairsociety.bsky.social · 17d

SAVE THE DATE! The Stair Society AGM and Annual Lecture will be taking place on Saturday 15 November 2025 in Edinburgh. More details to follow, but we are pleased to announce that Professor Julian Goodare, University of Edinburgh, will be delivering a talk on ‘Witchcraft and Scots Law’.

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Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social · 25d

Looking forward to this launch of @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social's Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean at The Georgian House.

Date: 2 Oct • 18:30

Location: 7 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4DR

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Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean

Miranda Kaufmann in conversation with Lisa Williams

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · Sep 10

Lothian Health Services Archive Cataloguer: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

LHSA Archives Cataloguer

This role is an important position within Lothian Health Services Archive (LHSA), helping us to make our collections accessible and discoverable for broad and diverse audiences in accordance with arch...

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · Sep 10

despite everything going on, I'm so happy to be able to keep creating jobs in the heritage sector, check out the following listings for: Assistant Musical Instruments Curator:
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Assistant Musical Instruments Curator (Mirrey Endowment)

We are looking for a knowledgeable and experienced musical instrument curator to work in the Musical Instrument Collection at the University of Edinburgh.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Sep 7

“THE INHERITANCE is, then, a novel concerned with questions of morality and education, but also national identity, the differences between Scottish and English cultures… It is also very funny”

—Books & Borrowing, 1750–1830 on Susan Ferrier’s THE INHERITANCE
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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830 :: Forgotten Best-Sellers: Susan Ferrier’s The Inheritance (1824)

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Sep 7

We republished Susan Ferrier’s MARRIAGE in 2020—using the text of the acid-sharp 1819 2nd edition rather than the sentimentalised Victorian 4th edition of 1841. You can read the first chapter online here:
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Marriage: A Novel, by Susan Ferrier - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

Chapter 1 of Susan Ferrier's Marriage – a witty and satirical examination of female lives in the Regency

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Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social · Aug 28

Also www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... (good info on Scots law and witchcraft in this one).

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social · Aug 28

I've made nothing (and won't) from publishing my book - included in LibGen (www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...). 😠The Anthropic Piracy Lawsuit form is now available to authors outwith the US: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... ✔️✒️(On a lighter note 'outwith' is now definitely in the AI realm.)

Anthropic Authors’ & Publishers’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser

www.lieffcabraser.com

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · Aug 25

24 month, 0.16 post at Glasgow University to cover my teaching while I'm leading a Leverhulme Project Grant. Desirable: Up-to-date knowledge and specialist understanding in science fiction, literature and medicine, and/or post-war literature.
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Lecturer in English Literature (LTS)

Job Purpose The School of Critical Studies seeks to appoint a part-time fixed term Lecturer in English Literature (Learning, Teaching and Scholarship track) to provide teaching cover for Dr Gavin M...

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Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social · Aug 24

Unzoomed #584 3/6 🔴🟡🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️
unzoomed.com Happy with that.

Unzoomed

Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Aug 22

The British Association for Romantic Studies Biennal International Conference 2026 - Romantic Retrospection
In-person: Wednesday 29th–Friday 31st July 2026
Online Conference: Thursday 6th August 2026

Updates & CfP announced:

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...

[Image: Birmingham Museums Trust]

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Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social · Aug 16

Lovely visit to @merchantshallyork.org this morning - cafe and Hall both on great form! 🤩

View of beamed medieval hall with guild banners and oil paintings.

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Guildhall Library @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social · Aug 8

Happy International Cat Day! 🐾

Have you visited Whittington: The Man, The Myth, and The Cat yet?

Don’t miss it — closing 21 August 2025!

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Aug 2

Collecting The Most Beautiful Books
22 Aug, Rothesay – £8.50–£11

Kelsey Jackson Williams explores armorial bookbindings in the Bute Collection & tells the story of an exceptional but unknown assemblage of book-art in the Mount Stuart libraries
#BookHistory
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting...

Collecting The Most Beautiful Books - August Talk

Join us on Friday 22nd August for an incredible evening delving into the Bute Collection at Mount Stuart's rare collection of bookbindings!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Jul 28

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

New History Book Series Call for Proposals: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth- Century Cultures and Societies - BSECS

Series Editors: Elaine Chalus, University of Liverpool, UK and Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Routledge Editor: Max Novick The long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal poin...

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Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social · Jul 26

I finally got around to taking some photos of the 'West End Girls' Exhibition at The Georgian House:

Books on display in a case at The Georgian House's 'West End Girls' exhibition: H. B. Farnie's 'Pet Marjorie' and a transcription of Marjory Fleming's writings from the 1930s; Catherine Sinclair's 'Holiday House' (copy from 1844); Elizabeth Grant, 'Memoirs of a Highland Lady' (1st edition of 1898).

Display of white feathers, a lace fan, and a small Bible along with two books by Catherine Sinclair in modern reprints ('Modern Society' and 'Modern Accomplishments' on a table beneath a panel about the accomplishments late Georgian young ladies were expected to attain, including how to be have when presented at court during King George IV's visit to Scotland in 1822.

Anne Young's 'Musical Games' for which she was granted a royal patent in 1801. Young was a music teacher who designed the games playable with this set to reduce the drudgery of learning - and teaching - music. The game comprises an oblong box, a printed keyboard, moveable pegs, ivory counters, and dice. The set is incredibly rare: this is the first time it has been displayed at The Georgian House.

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Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social · Jul 17

In a new entry on our research blog, Glasgow's Alex Deans reflects on how Thomas Pennant's tours of Scotland are haunted by absent, ancient trees - and the possibility of enlightened reforestation

curioustravellers.ac.uk/thomas-penna...

Monochrome illustration of a huge, split yew tree, with two leafy outgrowths on each side of a rent and serrated trunk. Subtitled "Yew tree at Fortingal".

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Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh announces the launch of a new website, The People’s Dispensary featuring a digitised and transcribed collection of 18th century case notes of the Edinburgh Public Dispensary from its foundation in 1776.
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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Jul 13

I love chairing panels at academic conferences and I Have Thoughts about it!

I think it’s a really important service role AND you can create the conditions for everyone in the panel to have a good time AND it can be fun!

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Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social · Jul 8

This needs a 'dislike' button. Good luck!

Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · Jul 8

Team: I am sorry to report that RRCHNM is eliminating my position in late August. That means I am in the hunt for new full-time and consulting opportunities in history, public history, and podcast production. Have a lead? Please let me know!

And yes, Worlds Turned Upside Down will continue.

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The Signet Library @signetlibrary.bsky.social · Jul 7

A quick heads-up that our online catalogue will be offline for an upgrade on Wednesday morning (9th July) - all being well, we'll be back by lunchtime.

A screenshot of the front page of the Signet Library's online catalogue.

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