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#31DaysOfGraves
Day 6: Gender
In Scotland, a monumental inscription relating to a married woman typically gives her full maiden name alongside the name of her husband. This doesn't mean she wasn't married! Some examples from #RutherglenCemetery #OPS.
On the left the gravestone of Mary Jess, wife of William Graham, and on the right the gravestone of Lilla Ethel Cable, wife of Harry Nixon. Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Gravestone of Nellie Gray, wife of Hugh Stewart, surrounded by autumn leaves. Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Gravestone of Susan Semple, wife of William Riddell. Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Gravestone of Ellen Simpson, wife of John Lister. Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan, Steve Murdoch

scothistorysociety.bsky.social
Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

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SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
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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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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan, Dave O’Brien, Lesley A. Hall , and 4 more

smschober.bsky.social
Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne
Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.
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politicdormouse.bsky.social
Winifred Drinkwater, 1st woman in world to hold a commercial #pilot's licence. Flew photographers over Loch Ness as they searched for Nessie, did air ambulance work on the Western Isles & flew an air search for a boat of kidnappers. d. #OTD 6 Oct 1996 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifre...
Winifred Drinkwater stood by plane propeller, fuselage marked Midland & Scottish Air Ferries Ltd
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by Elizabeth Ewan

Lilias of Ancrum
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Priscilla Scott @brudhearg.bsky.social · 2d
#31DaysOfGraves Day 6: Gender.
Local lore tells that this young woman joined the men to fight against the English near Ancrum in the Scottish Borders. '......Upon the English loons she laid monie thumps, An' when her legs were cuttit off, she fought upon her stumps...' c.1544
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan

brudhearg.bsky.social
#31DaysOfGraves Day 6: Gender.
Local lore tells that this young woman joined the men to fight against the English near Ancrum in the Scottish Borders. '......Upon the English loons she laid monie thumps, An' when her legs were cuttit off, she fought upon her stumps...' c.1544
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan, Lesley A. Hall, Elaine Treharne , and 2 more

laurysarti.bsky.social
Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...
Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen)
Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invites ap...
www.hsozkult.de
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan, Lesley A. Hall

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RHS funding opportunity: David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People.

The Society's Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj

Closing date for the 2026 Fellowship: 6 March 2026
David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People - RHS
Launched in 2023, the David Berry Fellowship provides an annual award of up to £2,500 to undertake research on the history of Scotland and the Scottish people worldwide. Applications for the 2026 Fell...
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by Elizabeth Ewan

fascinating and also beautiful!
archaeonado.bsky.social
Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 10d
Cool colleagues doing cool stuff again - that's Dr Blackwell @earlymedieval.bsky.social nearly blurred out back there in this story of cool medieval finds from excavations at Eliean Donan Castle www.thenational.scot/news/2550068...
Rare medieval hair-styling tool found during Highland castle excavation
A RARE 13th-century tool for styling hair has been acquired by a museum after it was discovered in an excavation ...
www.thenational.scot
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan

archaeonado.bsky.social
Cool colleagues doing cool stuff again - that's Dr Blackwell @earlymedieval.bsky.social nearly blurred out back there in this story of cool medieval finds from excavations at Eliean Donan Castle www.thenational.scot/news/2550068...
Rare medieval hair-styling tool found during Highland castle excavation
A RARE 13th-century tool for styling hair has been acquired by a museum after it was discovered in an excavation ...
www.thenational.scot
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan

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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan, Kris Inwood

sarasheridan.bsky.social
Today a THREAD👇 of Scottish WWII sheroes who shone in adversity. 1st resistance fighter & nurse Mary Helen Young helped prisoners escape Nazi-occuped France. Killed in Ravensbruck, novelist, Simone St Clair, incarcerated with her said 'she kept her chin up' Mary we salute you./1
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan, Lesley A. Hall, Kathleen Kennedy , and 3 more

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Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World- King's College London - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan, Melissa Terras, Adrian Vickers

vivdunstan.bsky.social
From @chrismpaton.bsky.social Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly. Extremely alarming legal saga involving US genealogy company Ancestry and National Records of Scotland re core Scottish genealogy and family history records. scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance...
Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.
scottishgenes.blogspot.com
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan, Catriona Seth

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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON512/h...
Head of Research, Archives and Libraries at The British Museum
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Head of Research, Archives and Libraries on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
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by Elizabeth Ewan

sad to hear this - a kind and generous man and fine scholar
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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 16d
Saddened to learn that J.R (Jim) Miller passed away a little over a week ago. His scholarship on Indigenous history, I think it is fair to say, was extremely influential for many of us - and his survey textbooks provided an accessible entry point. www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com/obituaries/j...
James Miller Obituary September 11, 2025 - Saskatoon Funeral Home
View James Miller's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
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mhayday.bsky.social
Saddened to learn that J.R (Jim) Miller passed away a little over a week ago. His scholarship on Indigenous history, I think it is fair to say, was extremely influential for many of us - and his survey textbooks provided an accessible entry point. www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com/obituaries/j...
James Miller Obituary September 11, 2025 - Saskatoon Funeral Home
View James Miller's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com
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asls.org.uk
For one day only, the Blackadder Prayerbook – made for Glasgow’s first archbishop, Robert Blackadder, c. late 1400s – will be on display as part of Glasgow’s 850th birthday celebrations & @natlibscot.bsky.social’s centenary

29 Sept, Glasgow Cathedral. Free
#medievalsky
www.nls.uk/whats-on/bla...
Glasgow 850: The Blackadder Prayerbook at Glasgow Cathedral | National Library of Scotland
For one day only, the Blackadder Prayerbook, considered 'Glasgow's Book of Kells' returns home to Glasgow Cathedral. Visit it on 29 September.
www.nls.uk
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan, Valentina Bold

rhiggitt.bsky.social
Amazing opportunity for a specialist librarian at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. The Crawford Collection really is outstanding #histSTM 📜🔭 fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Librarian
Salary: £36,650 per annum | Open Ended | Full Time/Part time | Closing Date: 28th September 2025
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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan

eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'In 2025, women are still only the focus of 12% of history lessons, while 59% feature no women at all. None. The named women who are taught are dominated by four exceptional figures – Elizabeth I and Mary I...Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Davison'. 2/2
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan

asls.org.uk
“Their novels interest me because of what I’m calling their domestic naturalism—an unrelenting, entirely matter-of-fact focus on the events of everyday life”

—Prof Juliet Shields on the late #C19th / early #C20th novels of Jane & Mary Findlater
#BookwormSat
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/04/the-...
Book cover Virgo Modern Classics Jane & Mary Findlater Crossriggs Below the title is a painting by Daniel Macnee (1806–1882), titled A Lady in Grey (The Artist's Daughter, Later Mrs Wiseman). It shows a young woman sitting outside. She has dark hair and pale skin, and is looking up directly at the viewer. She is swathed in a voluminous grey-green dress, with wide sleeves and a high white collar tied with a black bow. She is sewing, and holding a piece of white fabric on her lap.
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Harald (III) Sigurðsson, king of Norway, and Tostig Godwineson, former ealdorman in Northumbria, defeated the brothers Morcar and Edwin, ealdormen in Northumbria and Mercia respectively, at the Battle of Fulford, near York, #OTD in 1066. 📸British Museum #medievalsky
A Viking / late Anglo-Saxon spearhead.
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by Rebecca Sear — Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan, Kostas Kampourakis, Nikki Fairchild

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“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before”

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan, Lesley A. Hall, Margot C. Finn

vbivar.bsky.social
Well this is an exceptionally good history job. Wonders never cease.

www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
Research Chair in Transgender Studies - Victoria, British Columbia (CA) job with UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA | 398896
The University of Victoria invites applications for a Research Chair in Transgender Studies, a prestigious academic ...
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by Elizabeth Ewan

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Police would like to speak to a Señor Dalí who was seen in the vicinity.
A bike with the rear wheel warped in a way that is not very like Dali's floppy watches but reminds me of them.
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thiagokrause.bsky.social
Now reading 200+ pages of Ulhoa's correspondence while in Amsterdam, and found one surprisingly relatable 1662 passage to great Jewish financier Antonio Lopes Suasso:
"My lord, you must have known that chocolate is my sustance..." - goes on profusely thanking Suasso for a large chocolate delivery.
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medievalacademy.bsky.social
Jobs for Medievalists

Professor - Late Antiquity
Department of Classics / Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Application Deadline: November 6
The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies in the Faculty of Arts and
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...
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Reposted by: Elizabeth Ewan, Kris Inwood

gilliandoctor.bsky.social
Looking for info on the existence of archives/fonds of Canadian Scottish Associations or clubs, and other "national" associations (English, Irish). Want to have information on the survival of these types of records, particularly from the 19th and early 20th century. Thank you!
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