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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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 1d

In academic writing it is vitally important to know when you have said enough to prove your argument. It is at this point that you must add every single other piece of evidence you have come across

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Another good comment. "The arts and humanities classroom really helps us understand the world. We’re comfortable being in complexity. We're comfortable with the question and not the answer. And if there's a time when there's not an answer and we don't know exactly what to do, it’s this moment."

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 5d

An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 7d

Two-year postdoc at Queen’s University for historians of Classical &/or Medieval Europe.

~$70,000/year (CDN); requirement to teach 2 semester-long courses per year; teaching experience & scholarly publications are an asset.

Per donor’s bequest, “only candidates who identify as women are eligible”.

An image of the first page of the call for applications to the postdoc.

An image of the second page for a call for applications to the postdoc.

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 7d

Callum G. Brown’s Ninety Humanists and the Ethical Transition of Britain reveals how a network of British humanist intellectuals, inspired by H.G. Wells, drove major ethical reforms from 1930 to 1980, reshaping British society.

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

Under the pseudonym “Meg Dods”, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857) wrote THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL, a cookbook which also includes the various doings of the fictitious Cleikum Club – “a small gathering of absurd diners who do not much like or trust each other”
#BookologyThursday

A page from Chrsitian Isobel Johnstone’s “Cook and Housewife’s Manual” (1826). It begins:

FINAL SEDERUNT OF THE CLEIKUM CLUB.

SCENE—Inmost parlour of the Cleikum Inn, four hours after dinner—The most distinguished members of the Club and a few favoured guests seated round a table, at which Touchwood presides, and which is furnished with the following Zest-Course, having three silver covered dishes over spirit-lamps down the middle:—

Potted Cheese.
Shrimp Sandwiches.
Canapés.
Devilled Woodcocks.
Caviare.
Pickled Oysters.
Olives.
Devilled Biscuits.
Lobster haut gout.
Anchovy Sandwiches.
Devilled Biscuits.
Olives.
Canapés.
Caviare.
Hot Pastry Ramakins.
Salmi of Wild Ducks.

Wine Decanters, a Crystal, and an ancient Silver Claret Stoup, all in amicable confusion.

TOUCHWOOD.
Ha, Meg!—a Zest-course worthy of the grand Publication-dinner which preceded it.
MEG DODS.
I'm proud to find it pleased, Nawbob.—But when is our New Beuk to be out?—for I'm deaved wi' calls for't.
TOUCHWOOD.
The very question Mr Weibach of the ______ Review did me the honour to put this moment across the table.—Our IMPROVED EDITION, Sir, is expected to show its face in the Row every hour now: a day of gladness that-especially if it precedes the next great Trade-Dinner.
REVIEWER.
The whole dining and literary world are a-gape, Madam, for your admirable INSTITUTE OF MODERN COOKERY—A little more of the Salmi, if you please, Nabob.—Exquisite!—A half squeeze of the Seville.—French this, I could swear?
TOUCHWOOD.
Right, Sir; Note 311 modified by Receipt 344.—But lose no time;—every moment is precious here.—No dallying with a devil.—Dr Redgill, commend me to you!—I like to see a man in downright earnest.—Rather pungent—eh?—too much of the cayenne?

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 9d

Here at Exeter we are offering three fully funded AHRC PhD places in humanities subjects. Please get in touch if you are keen to come and do research with us! Closing date 23 February 2026: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

PhD: AHRC Studentship | University of Exeter

Project descriptionThe University of Exeter is offering up to three fully funded AHRC doctoral studentships and training and development opportunities across a range of the AHRC’s disciplines for cand...

www.exeter.ac.uk

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Heather McDaid @heathermmcd.bsky.social · 9d

Argonaut Books needs your help 📣

Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.

Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...

WE HAVE NEWS. We've been shocked go discover that the UK's biggest book.cjaon is moving in mere steps from our front door. Waterstones, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh shop less than 100 metres from Argonaut Books at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. We know that our community is what makes it possible for us to do what we do here at Argonaut and we're going to need your help. Please share this post with everyone you know, read.on for more info about what we're going to do and what happens next.

Ways you can help. Please share this post with friends ans followers. Yoi have supported us through the end of the lock down, a rocky outlook for the retail industry and two years of relentless disruptive roadworks.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 10d

In common with every camera-wielding lifeform in Glasgow, I have seen the Rebel Bear's latest piece.

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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 10d

See my new blog post on "Multi-talented Women" featuring the current exhibition at #NMWA on women as artists, engravers, calligraphers, sculptors, embroiderers, lacemakers, etc. I place #EstherInglis within this coteree of talented Netherlandish women. estheringlis.com/2025/11/17/w...

Women of Many Talents

Calligrapher, limner, embroiderer, writer – those are all arts in which Esther Inglis engaged. She seems to have been unique in Britain at the time, so who were her cohorts? There must have b…

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10d

Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency & its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
25 Nov, Glasgow. Free

@leoniejungen.bsky.social investigates CLAN-ALBIN, a novel by Walter Scott’s contemporary, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857)
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Leonie Jungen | Tales of a Grandmother

Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency and Its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 10d

Another Canadian/Quebec history job posting, this one at UQAM - its been a couple decades since I've seen 6 tenure-track job postings in Cdn history all at once. Very happy to see this.

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Search Jobs - University Affairs

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Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social · 11d

Happy St Margaret’s Day

Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 11d

3/3 'Here the Holy Saint Margaret is delivered from the deep waters and comes to the land of the Scots' and 'Here the Holy St Margaret and her maidens do many noble works for the beautifying of Holy Church'

Louis Davis, 1909, Paisley Abbey, Scotland. Today's the feast of St Margaret of Scotland.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 11d

Comment to editor: “Outwith is a commonly used and very useful Scottish word which Microsoft refuses to accept.”

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 11d

Want to join the www.codicum.eu project?

3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.

#Medieval #Manuscript

3-year postdoc position in medieval studies

3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 11d

Brother and Sister outside a Glasgow tenement, 1955, painting by Joan Eardley, 1921-63 (Aberdeen Gallery). #WomensArt

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 11d

Job - please share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions

www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 11d

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merraman?

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 12d

Postscript attributed to James VI writing to George Douglas, 7 September 1581: My little monkey believe what the red beard (Lennox) will write to you on my behalf, 'Mon petit singe croyes ce que le rousseau t'escira de mon part', (TNA SP 53/11 f.30)

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 13d

There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here:

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp

Edinburgh university staff back industrial action again in longstanding dispute over cuts and redundancies

Staff at the University of Edinburgh have today (Tuesday) backed industrial action for a second time in a longstanding dispute over £140million cuts, job losses and compulsory redundancies.

www.ucu.org.uk

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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · 15d

Designations Officer
Historic Environment Scotland
Salary: £32,255-£38,500
Closing Date: 26/11/25
Location: Longmore House, Edinburgh

www.bajr.org/job-ad/desig...

Designations Officer - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources

Salary: £32,255-£38,500Closing Date: 26/11/25Location: Longmore House, Edinburgh

www.bajr.org

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 15d

CFP: Women, Money, and Markets: Crisis & Resilience (1650-1950) at The Foundling Museum, London UK, June 12-13, 2026

For our 9th interdisciplinary conference we especially welcome reflections on how evolving political landscapes reshape economic power, knowledge access & inclusion.

Women, Money and Markets 1600-1950

womenmoneymarkets.co.uk

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 15d

If anybody would like to, or knows anybody who might like to, do a small amount of paid research work for me at the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh, I would be very glad to hear from them.

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 15d

Mapping Identities Conference 9/02/26-10/02/26 Call for Papers.

We warmly invite expressions of interest in the form of 250-word abstracts and 100-word short biographies Wednesday 17/12/25

tinyurl.com/3nnacccd

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 16d

On #RemembranceDay, we encourage you to use the Mapping Memorials site to find war memorials dedicated to women like Scottish nurse Margaret Brebner (1885–1942), who became a Matron in Singapore and was killed when her evacuation ship was bombed.

womenofscotland.org.uk/women/margar...

Margaret Brebner | Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16d

'It recommended “dismantling” the “misguided” Job-Ready Graduates fee scheme, which it said has deterred the study of humanities. It also called for the government to encourage international education as “a strategic asset”.' 3/3

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 16d

There's still time to sign up for the second event in our Winter Lecture Series: 'The Accounts, Inventories, and Diet Books of Annas Keith, Countess of Moray and Argyll' with Dr Jade Scott

Tomorrow 17:30 (UK), free and online

Register: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 16d

The phenomenal and enigmatic rock crystal and gold 'jar' of Bishop Hyguald from the heart of the Galloway Hoard is NOW on display for the first time ever. It was held back for Kirkcudbright while the rest of the Hoard continues its world tour in Melbourne (1/2)