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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 9d

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · 9d

Leith Davis and Kevin James recently launched their edited collection, ‘Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present' - a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy, bringing together leading scholars who contributed new insights to this landmark volume.
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University of Guelph News @uofguelphnews.bsky.social · Sep 3

#UofG | How did a 300-year-old Scottish estate avoid falling victim to a wave of demolitions in the 1940s to 1970s?

Dr. Kevin James discusses the history of Duff House in this @ca.theconversation.com piece.

Read more: theconversation.com/how-a-300-ye...

How a 300-year-old Scottish country estate escaped the wrecking ball

The history of Duff House in northeastern Scotland serves as a reminder that not all country homes in the British Isles faced the same 20th-century fate.

theconversation.com

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · 29d

Join us online today - Wed. 10 September, 3pm (EDT) / 8pm (UK) for 'Gaelic in Scotland, Gaelic in Canada: Challenges, Prospects, Connections’ delivered by Prof. Robert Dunbar,
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

Free Tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/1582259584...

#Gaelic #GaelicLanguage #Scotland #Canada

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Neil McGuigan @neilmcguigan.bsky.social · Sep 8

A recent talk I gave to the Scottish Society for Northern Studies on Earl Harald of Orkney and "12th-century Scoto-Orcadian relations" has been put on YouTube. Includes a new theory about the origins of Harald's branch of the Scottish royal dynasty:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIDR...

SSNS Seminar - Scoto Orcadian Relations in the Twelfth century, Dr Neil McGuigan

YouTube video by Scottish Society for Northern Studies

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Aug 20

Professors Leith Davis (Simon Fraser University) and Kevin James (University of Guelph) will present the Keynote Launch, 'The Making of Networking Jacobites and Exploring New Directions in Jacobite Studies', on Tuesday, 2 September, 12pm (EDT) / 5pm (UK).

Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · Aug 18

The time is nigh! Another fab programme for the JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop is up and ready to kick off on Tuesday, 2 Sept. Following the keynote launch, we'll have fortnightly sessions on different aspects of Jacobite Studies from a wide range of contributors.

jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Aug 20

"The Many Lives of Duff House" is on YouTube!

Join Prof. Kevin James, @uofguelph.bsky.social, as he explores the extraordinary life and after-life of an 18th-century aristocratic home, Duff House. Consider it a 'Downton Abbey' of North-East Scotland!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEmm...

The Many Lives of Duff House - The Weird & Wonderful Story of an Iconic Stately Home

YouTube video by Scottish History Out Of Order

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Aug 19

📣New Lecture Date!

Join us virtually on Wed. 10 September, 3pm (EDT) / 8pm (UK) on Zoom for 'Gaelic in Scotland, Gaelic in Canada: Challenges, Prospects, Connections’ delivered by Prof. Robert Dunbar, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

Register on Eventbrite (FREE): www.eventbrite.ca/e/gaelic-in-...

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Aug 12

Prof. Kevin James (University of Guelph) will join Prof. Leith Davis (Simon Fraser University) to discuss the publication of their new book, 'Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present'.

Attend in-person or online!

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

Register on Eventbrite: bit.ly/45TG3Cb

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Aug 12

Available to watch online!

Anna Groundwater @agroundwater.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hi @scotland.co I'd really appreciate a shout-out for my upcoming event @edbookfest.bsky.social on my book Connecting Scotland's History - 18 August - and available to watch online (you decide what to pay!) bit.ly/3J0amPx. Big thanks if you can!

Watch online: Anna Groundwater: Finding Scotland’s Place in World History

From Mon 18 Aug - Though small in landmass, Scotland and her people have had a mighty impact on the world over many centuries. In Connecting Scotland's History, Anna Groundwater demonstrates the richn...

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Aug 11

We are delighted to share the release of 'The Many Lives of Duff House', a fascinating podcast produced by The Big Light and Prof. Kevin James in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland - a SSHRC funded project.

🎙️Listen on your favourite podcast player here: pod.link/1831762330

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Aug 7

Happy Birthday @natlibscot.bsky.social! 🎉
#NLS100

National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · Aug 7

🥳 Officially 100!

Happy official birthday to us! 🎂

Today we celebrate 100 years of curiosity, discovery, and connection. Thank you for sharing the joy!

#NLS100

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Aug 6

🌟Student Spotlight!

MA candidate Megan is researching the later Scottish Covenanting Movement, looking at testimonies, letters, last words, diaries and life writings to find emotional patterns that would have affected how these women performed and embodied gender. 📖

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Aug 5

Watch online! Available live, then on-demand after the event.

Anna Groundwater @agroundwater.bsky.social · Aug 5

Talking ‘Finding Scotland’s Place in World History’ #EdBookFest celebrating new edition of 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
📍Venue T, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 18 August ⏰ 11am
🎟 bit.ly/3J0amPx

#EIBF #EdBookFest #scottishhistory #Scotland #history #timeline

Watch online: Anna Groundwater: Finding Scotland’s Place in World History

From Mon 18 Aug - Though small in landmass, Scotland and her people have had a mighty impact on the world over many centuries. In Connecting Scotland's History, Anna Groundwater demonstrates the richn...

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Jul 22

Check out this fascinating blog post by Megan Gamble, MA Candidate at @uguelphhist.bsky.social!

Megan studies the Covenanters through an emotional and gendered lens under the guidance of Dr. Cathryn Spence.

Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · Jul 15

Traditional narratives of the Scottish Covenanting Movement have either sidelined women’s roles or dismissed them. But women were central to the Movement - discover more about their role in our latest blog post!

📖 Read now
womenshistoryscotland.org/2025/07/13/t...

#WomensHistory #ScottishHistory

A Cloud of Witnesses, for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ, or, The Last Speeches and Testimonies of Those Who Have Suffered for the Truth, in Scotland, since the Year 1680, 1714.

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Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social · Jul 14

Join some of our Curious Travellers team at the FREE Early Career symposium "Journeys of Curiosity", in Liverpool on 25th September 2025.

Propose your papers by 15th August!

Poster image for "Journeys of Curiosity" Early Career One-Day Symposium, Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX, 25 September 2025: Free Event
Shows a Romantic-era illustration of the "New Bridge and Aqueduct, Rhiwabon"

The Liverpool Travel Seminar is a collaborative and interdisciplinary research forum launched jointly
by Liverpool Hope University, the University of Liverpool, and Liverpool John Moores University in
2007. It provides a constructive environment in which colleagues with interests in travel and travel
writing discuss the latest developments in their fields and reflect on future directions. The Seminar
enables cross-institutional dialogue and research collaboration at national and international level. This
year, we are collaborating with the AHRC-funded ‘Curious Travellers’ project, a partnership between
the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), Glasgow University
and the Natural History Museum, London. Curious Travellers explores C18th-C19th travel writing,
creating digital editions of previously unpublished tours of Wales and Scotland, and focusing on the
journeys of naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant (1726-1798).

We invite PhD candidates and early-career scholars working in the fields of travel and travel writing to
share their own journeys of curiosity. The event is free to attend and limited funding for bursaries is
available. We welcome papers from diverse disciplinary perspectives, theoretical frameworks, cultural
contexts and historical periods. Papers can be either 10 or 20 minutes: please send enquiries and
abstracts of 300 words and a bio of 150 words to the conference organisers: mary-ann.constantine@cymru.ac.uk and e.edwards@wales.ac.uk by 15 August 2025.

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Jun 24

The Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership (S-CAP) Inaugural Lecture is happening in 2 days!

‘Gaelic in Scotland, Gaelic in Canada: Challenges, Prospects, Connections’ presented by Prof. Robert Dunbar, University of Edinburgh.

Thurs. 26 June, 3pm (EDT) / 8pm (UK) on Zoom.

bit.ly/S-CAPLecture...

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Jun 17

The new issue of the International Review of Scottish Studies is now available!

Discover the FREE featured article, 'Westminster Politicians and Rectorial Elections in Scotland's Universities, 1820-1920' by Gordon Pentland.

www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

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Westminster Politicians and Rectorial Elections in Scotland's Universities, 1820–1920 | International Review of Scottish Studies

This article focuses on the relationship of Westminster politicians to rectorial elections at Scottish universities between the first obviously ‘political’ contest at Glasgow in 1820 and Lloyd George’...

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Jun 12

Join us online in 2 weeks for ‘'Gaelic in Scotland, Gaelic in Canada: Challenges, Prospects, Connections', presented by Prof. Robert Dunbar, University of Edinburgh.

📅 Thursday 26 June 2025

🕰️ 3pm (EDT) / 8pm(UK)

💻 Zoom

All are welcome to attend!

FREE Registration:
bit.ly/S-CAPLecture...

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · Jun 10

📣 Call for Papers!
Join us in Glasgow for New Directions in Women’s & Gender History in Scotland. We welcome papers on all aspects of women’s, gender, queer & trans history in/of Scotland. Interdisciplinary & inclusive.

📝 Deadline 1 July 2025
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

Share widely!

WHS Conference 2025 – Women's History Scotland

womenshistoryscotland.org

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Karly Kehoe @karlykehoe.bsky.social · Jun 9

For friends following our work on #Scottish #Highland settlement sites in #CapeBreton - you can check out our final report here: canmore.org.uk/collection/2...

Big thanks to Historic Environment Scotland for the brilliant partnership.

One People, Two Islands: The Entanglement of the Islands of Eigg, Scotland and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 1790-1830 | Canmore

canmore.org.uk

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · Jun 3

'The Many Lives of Duff House' is a SSHRC-funded project in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland and The Big Light. Last week, Prof. Kevin James visited Duff House to engage in meetings and interviews exploring the current position and future prospects for this historic property.

Michael Wilson-Park, of The Big Light, with John Mair, Monument Manager at Duff House, Historic Environment Scotland (speaking).

Kevin James, Director, Centre for Scottish Studies and Scottish Studies Foundation Chair at the University of Guelph and Ian Williams, Chair and Membership Secretary, Friends of Duff House (left).

Michael Wilson-Park and Kevin James, collaborators on a SSHRC-funded podcast exploring 'The Many Lives of Duff House'.

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · May 29

📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July

Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!

🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

Please share widely!

WHS Conference 2025 – Women's History Scotland

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · May 28

Join us virtually on 26 June at 3pm (EDT)/8pm (UK) on Zoom for the inaugural Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership Lecture: 'Gaelic in Scotland, Gaelic in Canada: Challenges, Prospects, Connections’ delivered by Professor Robert Dunbar, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social.
Register: bit.ly/S-CAPLecture...

Gaelic in Scotland, Gaelic in Canada: Challenges, Prospects, Connections

Join us for the inaugural Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership Lecture delivered by Professor Robert Dunbar, University of Edinburgh.

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Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social · May 20

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Understanding King James VI & I: 400 years on

A multi-day conference with accompanying workshops and activities that interrogate James' rich life and legacy.

www.eventbrite.co.uk