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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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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 2d

Woman sewing, c. 1650-55

Attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (British Museum)

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Dr Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 7d

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…

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Scottish Council on Archives @scotsarchives.bsky.social · 7d

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 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OPEN FOR BOOKINGS! - Scottish Council on Archives

01 October 2025

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Tudor Times @thetudortimes.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 11d

Fantastic! Thank you!

Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 12d

Amazing for both! Where is the painting from?

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 12d

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...

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 12d

Amen to that!

Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 12d

(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

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 12d

(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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Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social · 14d

#palaeography help please! Is this an ampersand squeezed it with the ‘||’ insertion mark? ‘& ane’?

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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 16d

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…

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 22d

Tailor’s ‘goose’ iron from Gouda, Netherlands.

Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 23d

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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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 25d

Cap #artbots #themet
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/98823

Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979

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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · 26d

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)

Cover designs for 'The Mechanics of Biological Materials, ' Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' and 'Public Law and the UK Supreme Court'

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you, but @michaelpearce.bsky.social got it! It’s ‘Inde’

Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 26d

Any tips on good literature on them?

Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 26d

Well done Dr Pearce! That’s it! Thank you again!

Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 26d

Three - and counting!

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 26d

Might just have to check that one out!

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 26d

What can petitions to magistrates from London apprentices tell us about gendered violence in #EarlyModern England?

New addition from Hilary Taylor to the #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography:
petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

Screenshot of the first page of Hilary Taylor, 'The gendered dynamics of violence in English apprenticeship: apprentices’ petitions to the Middlesex and Westminster Sessions, c. 1690–1830'

Abstract: This article offers the first systematic analysis of the role that violence played in the management of apprentices, and the gendered dynamics of violence in English apprenticeship more broadly. It does so through an examination of 195 petitions that apprentices or their supporters submitted to the Middlesex and Westminster Sessions, which sought the cancellation of their indentures on grounds of ‘immoderate correction’. It offers a quantitative overview of the surviving petitions, examining the proportion that featured allegations of violence, the terms and level of detail in which violence was described, and its relationship to apprentices’ other stated grievances. It moves on to reconstruct the factors that could prompt masters and mistresses to mete out correction (as well as their commentaries on their perceived right to do so) and the tactics that petitioners used in crafting their complaints to legal authorities. Although female apprentices complained about violence at a disproportionate rate to their male peers, the material considered here suggests that their petitions did so in comparatively formulaic and restricted terms. The final section considers what implications this might have for our understandings of violence, gender and apprenticeship, and a genre of document – the petition – that provides access to these issues.

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 26d

Say, that looks like an interesting document!

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 26d

Interesting items in this Kirkwall tailor's 1650 inventory: Silk, French thread and bolts of 'camelhair' cloth! What is the last word in the entry though? #palaeography #skystorians

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