Kirkwall Tailors Project
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A Community-Based Transcription of the Records of the Kirkwall Incorporation of Tailors, 1669-1772; Project Lead: Dr Aaron Allen
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Volunteers are welcome to join the project to help in the transcription! All volunteers will be named as co-editors, whether you contribute a line or multiple pages. For more info, contact the project lead, Aaron Allen, on [email protected]
#palaeography #Orkney
#palaeography #Orkney
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Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
#earlymodern #economic #history
#earlymodern #economic #history
The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
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September 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
#earlymodern #economic #history
#earlymodern #economic #history
2/2 Here we see a ‘Tailor’s Board’ from an old house in Victoria Street, Kirkwall. This early ironing board is 550mm in length and 160mm wide, with five circular indentations. Courtesy of Orkney Museum, Object No. OM-18703, Accession number 1977.016.
October 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
2/2 Here we see a ‘Tailor’s Board’ from an old house in Victoria Street, Kirkwall. This early ironing board is 550mm in length and 160mm wide, with five circular indentations. Courtesy of Orkney Museum, Object No. OM-18703, Accession number 1977.016.
1/2 A key part of a tailor’s work was ironing fabric, as seen by ‘goose irons’ in Tailors’ arms across Scotland. But what did they do their ironing on? Images: Pencaitland tailor's stone; Dutch iron; Detail from van Brekelenkam, ‘The Tailor’s Workshop’ (c.1661), Rijksmuseum, NL, Public Domain.
October 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
1/2 A key part of a tailor’s work was ironing fabric, as seen by ‘goose irons’ in Tailors’ arms across Scotland. But what did they do their ironing on? Images: Pencaitland tailor's stone; Dutch iron; Detail from van Brekelenkam, ‘The Tailor’s Workshop’ (c.1661), Rijksmuseum, NL, Public Domain.
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Interested in men's clothing in late Medieval Scotland ?
Come and hear me talk on Monday 3 November at Augustine United Church, Edinburgh
Come and hear me talk on Monday 3 November at Augustine United Church, Edinburgh
October 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Interested in men's clothing in late Medieval Scotland ?
Come and hear me talk on Monday 3 November at Augustine United Church, Edinburgh
Come and hear me talk on Monday 3 November at Augustine United Church, Edinburgh
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Made a site for exploring Bob Henery's transcription of Blaeu's 1654 Atlas of Scotland. You can browse, search and filter 28,394 features across 47 maps:
dgplacenames.github.io/blaeu/
dgplacenames.github.io/blaeu/
October 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Made a site for exploring Bob Henery's transcription of Blaeu's 1654 Atlas of Scotland. You can browse, search and filter 28,394 features across 47 maps:
dgplacenames.github.io/blaeu/
dgplacenames.github.io/blaeu/
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Woman sewing, c. 1650-55
Attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (British Museum)
Attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (British Museum)
October 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Woman sewing, c. 1650-55
Attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (British Museum)
Attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (British Museum)
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30% DISCOUNT with code NEW30! Shaping Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks is a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy with chapters considering #Jacobites from the 1688 Revolution to #Outlander.
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Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
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July 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
30% DISCOUNT with code NEW30! Shaping Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks is a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy with chapters considering #Jacobites from the 1688 Revolution to #Outlander.
@EdinburghUP
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
@EdinburghUP
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
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Revealing Life in a 13thC Scottish Castle theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/02/r...
Revealing Life in a 13thC Scottish Castle
Objects including brooches and dress pins were excavated alongside animal bones and crucibles – small ceramic cups used to melt copper alloy, silver and gold. Traces of precious metals found in the…
theorkneynews.scot
October 2, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Revealing Life in a 13thC Scottish Castle theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/02/r...
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SCOTLAND’S ARCHIVES AND RECORDS: CELEBRATING SUCCESS
SCA is excited to open bookings for its next annual conference on Thursday 20th November in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.
Find out more and book via: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/sca-a...
SCA is excited to open bookings for its next annual conference on Thursday 20th November in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.
Find out more and book via: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/sca-a...
SCA ANNUAL CONFERENCE OPEN FOR BOOKINGS! - Scottish Council on Archives
01 October 2025
www.scottisharchives.org.uk
October 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
SCOTLAND’S ARCHIVES AND RECORDS: CELEBRATING SUCCESS
SCA is excited to open bookings for its next annual conference on Thursday 20th November in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.
Find out more and book via: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/sca-a...
SCA is excited to open bookings for its next annual conference on Thursday 20th November in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.
Find out more and book via: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/sca-a...
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The final talk in the second of Royal Marriages Summit series bit.ly/4lifqMO will be delivered by Dr Michael Pearce who will be discussing the marriage of James V of Scotland to Marie of Guise – an important part of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France.
September 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The final talk in the second of Royal Marriages Summit series bit.ly/4lifqMO will be delivered by Dr Michael Pearce who will be discussing the marriage of James V of Scotland to Marie of Guise – an important part of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France.
Fantastic! Thank you!
September 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Fantastic! Thank you!
Amazing for both! Where is the painting from?
September 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Amazing for both! Where is the painting from?
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So I bought an old pitcher, and discover two authentic storage options; suspended, or upside-down on a shelf, from the 'Augsburger Klebealbum', heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/view...
September 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So I bought an old pitcher, and discover two authentic storage options; suspended, or upside-down on a shelf, from the 'Augsburger Klebealbum', heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/view...
Amen to that!
September 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Amen to that!
(2/2) But – it appears our Kirkwall tailor also was selling (?) a golf club and two balls; a ream of paper; and books: 6 copies of Proverbs and 2 copies of the Psalms. His inventory was worth over £102 Scots. #KirkwallTailorsProject
September 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
(2/2) But – it appears our Kirkwall tailor also was selling (?) a golf club and two balls; a ream of paper; and books: 6 copies of Proverbs and 2 copies of the Psalms. His inventory was worth over £102 Scots. #KirkwallTailorsProject
(1/2) The inventory of one of our Kirkwall tailors in 1650: inter alia, 3 kistis; a pint stoup; a chair; a furnished bed; lint & woollen spinning wheels; silk; French ribbons; cloth, including buckram; papers of pins; thimbles and lots of buttons… #KirkwallTailorsProject
September 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
(1/2) The inventory of one of our Kirkwall tailors in 1650: inter alia, 3 kistis; a pint stoup; a chair; a furnished bed; lint & woollen spinning wheels; silk; French ribbons; cloth, including buckram; papers of pins; thimbles and lots of buttons… #KirkwallTailorsProject
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#palaeography help please! Is this an ampersand squeezed it with the ‘||’ insertion mark? ‘& ane’?
September 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
#palaeography help please! Is this an ampersand squeezed it with the ‘||’ insertion mark? ‘& ane’?
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Step Back in Time at Kirbuster Farm Museum theorkneynews.scot/2025/09/23/s...
Step Back in Time at Kirbuster Farm Museum
Kirbuster Farm Museum is run by Orkney Islands Council and is free to visit, however, if you want to make a contribution towards its upkeep you can make a donation. Kirbuster Museum was opened to t…
theorkneynews.scot
September 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Step Back in Time at Kirbuster Farm Museum theorkneynews.scot/2025/09/23/s...
Tailor’s ‘goose’ iron from Gouda, Netherlands.
September 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Tailor’s ‘goose’ iron from Gouda, Netherlands.
This would be fantastic for displaying the medieval mining landscapes at Newbattle Abbey or the Heugh at Tranent… FAO @1722waggonway.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
This would be fantastic for displaying the medieval mining landscapes at Newbattle Abbey or the Heugh at Tranent… FAO @1722waggonway.bsky.social
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Cap #artbots #themet
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/98823
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/98823
September 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Cap #artbots #themet
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/98823
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/98823
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Catz academics in print: 'The Mechanics of Biological Materials' co-ed by Prof. John Morton (1968, Engrng), 'Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social (2014, English) & a chapter in 'Public Law & the UK Supreme Court' by @profmarkelliott.bsky.social (1999)
September 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Catz academics in print: 'The Mechanics of Biological Materials' co-ed by Prof. John Morton (1968, Engrng), 'Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social (2014, English) & a chapter in 'Public Law & the UK Supreme Court' by @profmarkelliott.bsky.social (1999)
Thank you, but @michaelpearce.bsky.social got it! It’s ‘Inde’
September 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Thank you, but @michaelpearce.bsky.social got it! It’s ‘Inde’
Any tips on good literature on them?
September 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Any tips on good literature on them?