Help with #palaeography please! ‘S[ummon]d[s] of Removeing / Geo: Ramsay / [The?] / [beisteret?]’

The Most Excellent Things are the King’s? The Case of Mines (1568) Who owns what lies within the ground beneath our feet? This post explores the answers offered in a 1568 case that has both analogues and legacies today.

My new post, on the Elizabethan 'Case of Mines', which turns out to have lots of interesting bits just below the surface.
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Excited to be talking ‘Connecting Scotland’s History’ at the most luxy of bookfests @bozzybookfest.bsky.social on Sunday 10 May. Thank you for having me!

Comforting to know 😆

Thanks, past me, for making a note that the Aberdeen Bailie Court books don't survive between 1598 and 1651. At the writing up stage of an article and had a real moment of panic that I'd missed a massive chunk of archival data.

An advertisement for the AMAEM conference, reading "Roslin Kerr, 'Coerced Consent: Civic Authority and Violence in Aberdeen’s Covenanting Crisis', online and in-person". A picture of Roslin, a brown/grey haired woman standing partially turned from the camera holding a book, is in the top left corner, and a manuscript image of medieval rabbits at war borders the right.

Roslin Kerr, a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow, will be presenting 'Coerced Consent: Civic Authority and Violence in Aberdeen’s Covenanting Crisis'.

It's not even a real phrase! Just assumed it was a Lennonism 😆

For those interested in Scottish history, Rebecca Wilkieson will be presenting "Maritime Scotland and the Transatlantic Trade: the development of Scotland’s maritime infrastructure through the transatlantic trade, 1690-1750"

I'm delighted to be presenting at @amaemconference.bsky.social in May this year.
The conference theme is 'violence', and treatment of PoWs in the seventeenth century was far from humane.
I'll be talking about Spalding's description of the fate of prisoners after the Battle of the Brig of Dee.

Uddingston, to be precise. Fun fact: not until the Get Back doc did I realise that the One After 909 lyric "cold as ice" was not "co-precise."

Following the trail of 1620s recusant James Gordon of Letterfourie has led to this spectacular 1770s Robert Adam pile. www.countrylife.co.uk/property/wit...

A page from a protocol from a commission that investigated a revolt in Bergen in July 1765.

When you were only going for one pint but... On 25 July 1765, a commission investigating a revolt in Bergen questioned one instigator, Jochum de Lange, who stated that "he was drunk and therefore rioted along with the others," and that he remembered neither what he did nor said "due to drunkenness".

Sleep, Scent, and Household Medical Care in Early Modern England Abstract. Sleep loss was a vital health concern for early modern people, and inducing sleep was essential to healthcare practices. This article traces how

Delighted that my new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk, co-authored with @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social, is now published! Thanks to all who read and heard earlier versions of this @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded research :)
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Certainly is. Brilliant nugget of detail.

'directit' him to his own bed wt ane 'souple'
From DOST-
Soupill, Soupell, n. Also: sowpill, souple, supple.
The part of a flail that strikes the grain in threshing. Also, a piece of wood intended for this purpos

I was guessing along the lines of "spurtle," so wasn't too far off! I suppose a soupill is the early modern equivalent of a baseball bat 😆 Many thanks for your help!

Yes, I believe you're right! Good spot that "she hearing" is two words, not one!

Afraid that's as good as gets!

Paleography puzzler, please! Gist is that Stevenson went to Margaret's bed with the intention of lying with her, "quhilk ? ?" and told him return to his own bed "with ane ?"

Quite.

I don’t think even the headline writer knows what the article’s about.

Spires, towers and steeples with Braid and Pentland Hills in the background.

EDINBURGH RHAPSODY IN BLUE:—View across the Old Town.
#Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news

St Andrews may be the most American university in the U.K. “You think you’re coming to get this Scottish or international experience, and there’s just so many Americans.” 🔗 on.wsj.com/4rvrJs5

Screenshit

🚨🚨 Announcing: SUMMA 🚨🚨

Simple spreadsheet software for calculating with Early Modern English currency.

gjhilton.github.io/Summa/

Restoring a painting is one of life’s great pleasures An effervescent hunt scene by Rubens is set to spring into life, thanks to experts at Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie

I wrote this about art restoration for the FT. www.ft.com/content/bfa0...

Good spot! And nice to see the proper reverence being bestowed upon the teacup.

🎥Watch the 2025 Sue Innes Lecture, now available on our website, where @vawright10.bsky.social explores women-led grassroots campaigns for improved housing across Glasgow during the twentieth century

Watch here 👇
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#WomensHistoryMonth #ScottishHistory

The Oldest Firm: Institutional Football in Medieval Scotland It’s a historic time for Scottish football: the men’s national team has qualified for the World Cup, ending a near three-decade drought. Scotland’s rugby (football) team has a cha…

🚨NEW Blogpost🚨

We all know about the #OldFirm. But what's the 'oldest firm' in the history of Scottish #football?
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The answer takes us back to #medieval and #earlymodern St Andrews, where university and city invested in an unlawful game.
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Lucky, Heroic, Profane: The Story of N.Y.P.D. Shield No. 13558

Neat way to tell a century of personal and public history. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/n...