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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 2h

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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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 7d

I'll be on NTS radio on Saturday at 10am with a mix inspired by the folklore, the roots of activism 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 www.nts.live

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 23d

🎶 I wrote a piece on 'Songs and Fancies', Scotland's earliest printed music book. Many thanks to Jane Petteree over at Soundyngs blog for hosting!

Songs and Fancies: Aberdonian music-making in the 17th Century

Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions also exist from e.g. the NLS). This post welcomes guest-author Roslyn Potter, who is …

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · Aug 21

According to (maybe apocraphal) family stories, in the 1980s my uncle befriended a jackdaw who stole cigarettes for him from the nearby pub and brought them to his window. Maybe this crow will start bringing you gold coins or something!

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · Aug 12

Very cool opportunity from @thenightwith.bsky.social for aspiring and enthusiastic sound engineers 🎻🎶

thenightwith.com/2025/07/29/t...

Trainee Sound Engineering 2025 | The Night With

Applications are now open for The Night With…’s pioneering one year scheme to train and nurture the next generation of sound engineers specialising in class ...

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · Aug 9

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Martin Eastwell - Lady Maggies Lilt - Music From The Lute Book Of Lady Margaret Wemyss 1629-1648

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2012 CD release of "Lady Maggies Lilt - Music From The Lute Book Of Lady Margaret Wemyss 1629-1648" on Discogs.

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · Aug 9

I see what you mean! Let’s hope Eric will be kind enough to have a wee go. Actually! I just remembered Martin Eastwell made an album of the music from Wemyss…that might point somewhere!

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hi Sonya, so according to Evelyn Stell’s thesis it is either ‘ane mask’ or ‘ballat’ so most likely a tune to dance to, but I can’t be sure. The list of instrumental contents are on page 220. Happy to chat about the possibilities! theses.gla.ac.uk/76280/1/1383...

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hi Sonya, I can check the contents for this and think I might know but it’ll have to wait til tomorrow. Would love to hear more about your research!

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jun 13

“Whether buried in the blackhouses of Lewis or the shuttered shipyards of Glasgow, Scotland’s mysteries speak to specific legacies which have shaped the land- & cityscapes that house its crimes”

THE BOTTLE IMP goes on the trail of Scottish crime writing…
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Help! Murder! Polis! - The Bottle Imp

Detective works were once seen as London’s domain – imperial in tone and centrally composed, unfolding in gentleman’s clubs and smoky drawing rooms. Yet long before fictional fact-finders patrolled Ba...

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · Jun 11

I am happy with this gift ☕️🍴👻

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · May 13

Hands down one of my favourite conferences ever! Congratulations to @misswalsingham.bsky.social and the FEATHERS team for such an excellent project and for showing us all such a good time in a beautiful place. I’m left feeling inspired and uplifted – thanks to all involved!

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · Apr 4

A braw post doc with the IASH and NMS in Edinburgh, examining the connections between Poland, Scandinavia or the Netherlands. Applications need to be in by the 25th April 2025.

#c18 #Skystorians #earlymodern
#17thc #JacobiteStudies #Scottishhistory

Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · Apr 4

Post Doc!

"Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture"

Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland

www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...

#Skystorians 🗃

IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship | IASH

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · Mar 14

I've considered editing it down into an article (or two?), but I could never muster the enthusiasm to return to the project. Perhaps now is the time? Well, not now but post-PhD...?

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · Mar 14

It's hard to believe that I completed my MPhil three years ago now. For reasons I can't remember, I opted to have it embargoed...but today, it's lifted! If anyone is interested in the literary legacy of the first secular song book printed in Scotland (1662) then this is your lucky day! 🎶

John Forbes’s Songs and Fancies and its literary legacy - Enlighten Theses

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Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social · Mar 6

The Scottish History Society 2025 Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM is on Saturday 29th March! We had a fantastic time last year hearing about research so join us for a great day of papers and discussion. Free to members, £5 non-members.
www.tickettailor.com/events/scott...

Select tickets – Scottish History Society 2025 Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM – Old Medical School, Teviot Place, University of Edinburgh

‘The Sources of Scottish History’ University of Edinburgh 29 March 2025 All events will take place in the University of Edinbur...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jan 25

Now this big westerly’s
blown itself out,
let’s drive to the storm beach…

—Kathleen Jamie, “The Beach”
Published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012
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The Beach
by Kathleen Jamie

Now this big westerly's
blown itself out,
let's drive to the storm beach.

A few brave souls
will be there already,
eyeing the driftwood,

the heaps of frayed
blue polyprop rope,
cut loose, thrown back at us –

What a species –
still working the same
curved bay, all of us

hoping for the marvellous,
all hankering for a changed life.

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · Jan 21

🌟Discover and Follow Women’s History Scotland! 🌟

Since 1995, we've connected people passionate about women’s and gender history in Scotland. We host events, provide teaching resources, and offer prizes and bursaries to promote diverse voices.

womenshistoryscotland.org

#WomensHistory

Women's History Scotland – Promoting study and research in women's and gender history in Scotland

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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · Dec 30

The Broons story for the Hogmanay of 1944 is a masterpiece of Scots art which surpasses anything by Raeburn, Naysmith or the Colourists. This is a hill that I will die upon.

It is Hogmanay in 1944. Granpaw receives a telegram in the close of 10 Glebe Street. Chaos ensues with the Broons quarrelling about who their first foot should be. The rival first foots form a queue at the Broons' door. Then, Granpaw appears with Hen and Joe, who have been given leave from the army. He intercepted a telegram, mind? A final, sublimely couthy, ensemble frame shows the family and their friends celebrating. *moist eyes*

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · Dec 28

Tune in this evening to www.nts.live at 9pm to spice up your Daft Days with a neoclassicism/strum and drang/baroque mix 🎻🎶

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Dec 12

If you ever thought that searching a library catalogue is complicated, be reminded: this is how a book (in manuscript or print) in octavo with five pages or more and less than ten was categorized in a sixteenth-century European collection (from Hernando Colón).

A 🧵 for #earlymodern #bookhistory

You see 5 symbols used by Hernando Colón in his library catalogue. The images of this thread are from J.M. Pérez Fernández / E. Wilson-Lee: Hernando Colón's New World of Books" (2021).

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · Dec 9

It was such a privilege to present a paper at ‘Scotland’s Manuscripts: Making and Finding’ in Edinburgh last week. Many thanks so much to the team for their hard work in organising and delivering such a brilliant conference! 📜

Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · Dec 7

We did it! So pleased with how 'Scotland's Manuscripts: Making and Finding' went. A lot of hard work and so grateful to my co-organisers, but it reminded me of the great great value in just getting MS scholars in the same room with some MSS to discuss. So important & doesn't always happen enough...

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · Dec 4

100+ archives & library special collections accounts have now joined Bluesky!

Welcome to
@britrecs.bsky.social
@guildhalllibrary.bsky.social
@theulspeccoll.bsky.social
@hartleyspecialc.bsky.social
@archives76.bsky.social

& catch up with more new arrivals in our starter pack at go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · Dec 4

CONFERENCE: SRS 11th Biennial Conference | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents

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CONFERENCE: SRS 11th Biennial Conference | MEMOs

The University of Bristol is delighted to welcome the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference back to Bristol in July 2025.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · Dec 3

Hi all, I've made a starter park of historians of the body - please shout if you'd like to be added/removed. I was in a rush so haven't added everyone yet! go.bsky.app/T5KnJ51 🗃️

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