Our 2026 programme is now LIVE!
You can now visit our website to see our amazing selection of talks for this year.
Tickets are available from March 19. Though you can unlock priority booking and get ahead of the crowds by becoming a Friend of the Festival.
www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk
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!
Know your early modern Scottish History, and have experience with collections? Mat leave cover opportunity as Assistant Curator, Renaissance and Early Modern History at National Museums Scotland, apply now! 🏴🔍🕵️♀️Deadline 18 Feb: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/829206
I have been puzzling over this for a while & thought that it might be worth opening out to the floor to hear some opinions.🙏
What is this medieval marginal figure doing?
They are clearly working with some kind of tool on fabric, cloth or skin... any thoughts on what the tool or process might be?🔎
Last minute stocking filler? Scottish history novice or enthusiast? Connecting Scotland’s History can be with you tomorrow 🎉🎄🏴join all the other unicorns🦄🎅#luathpress
Last minute stocking filler? Scottish history novice or enthusiast? Connecting Scotland’s History can be with you tomorrow 🎉🎄🏴join all the other unicorns🦄🎅#luathpress
Are you in museums or galleries? Do you do Renaissance-era research? Think about applying NOW to the Society for Renaissance Studies award to support such a research project upto £1,000. Deadline 1 December! It could get you to that crucial archive or museum! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
Aw, that's such a lovely memory of a wonderful inaugural and a happy evening, congratulations Prof!
Connecting Scotland's History is back in stock! Read more about it in this kind review of its previous edition (Scotland Connected) from Donald McCormick in the Scottish Left Review scottishleftreview.scot/book-review-... #Scotland #scottishhistory #history
Catch my thoughts on the BBC MQS codebreakers program on BBC1 Points of View. (I haven’t seen it since away). Lovely to see actual Stewart Scottish specialists interviewed.. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
✨BOOK EVENT✨
👤 Anna Groundwater
📚 Connecting Scotland's History
📍Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway
📆 1 November
⏰ 10:30am
🎟 buff.ly/fekUapY
#AllowayWhatsOn #History #HistoryBook #ScottishHistory #BookEvent
Call for Papers 18th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, and Culture (ICMRSLLC) University of Bristol, 1-4 July 2026 We are delighted to invite papers for the 18th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, and Culture (ICMRSLLC), first established in 1975. We welcome proposals for papers that discuss any aspects of medieval and renaissance Scottish language, literature, and culture, and papers that reflect on these fields from different time periods, languages, and places. Keynote speakers: Roderick Lyall (Emeritus Professor of Literatures in English, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Anna Groundwater (Principal Curator, National Museums Scotland) Steven Reid (Professor of Early Modern Scottish History and Culture, University of Glasgow) You may submit either an individual paper proposal (in which case the organisers will compile proposals into panels); or a complete panel of 3 papers at 20 minutes each. The conference also welcomes alternative panel formats (e.g. roundtables, flash panels, work in progress sessions), but these will need to managed by the proposer and proposed in full, with details of all participants. Individual papers: 20 minutes Panel sessions (typically featuring 3 papers with time for questions, or in alternative formats): 90 minutes.
CFP: 18th International Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, & Culture
1–4 July, @bristoluni.bsky.social
Deadline: 14 Nov 2025. See link for details 👇
icmrsllc2026.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/call-for-pap...
I'm kicking off A Blether of Books festival at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum talking Connecting Scotland's History on Saturday 1 November 📙🎉 - tickets in link on bio...! @luathpress.bsky.social #robertburnsnts #ABletheroBooks
ALT: A speculative digital reconstruction of the Bass of Inverurie - a late twelfth-century timber and earthwork castle held by the Earls of Garioch (pronounced "Geary" in the local tongue)- members of the extended royal family of Scotland and the ancestors of King Robert the Bruce. Personal project © Bob Marshall 2017. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Speculative digital reconstruction of Tor Alvie hillfort near Aviemore, Scottish Highlands. The site was identified as a hillfort in 2010-11 (Historic Environment Record: MHG55341). The reconstruction model was created in Blender 3D using a combination of high-resolution digital terrain data obtained from Ordnance Survey, which I used to create my backdrop of the Cairngorm Mountains. Although the fort has never been excavated, the line of its rampart walls can broadly be determined by a stony bank that encloses an area of roughly 85m x 30m, bearing immediate similarities in size and shape to Craig Phadrig hillfort near Inverness. However, unlike Craig Phadrig, there is no evidence that Torr Alvie was vitrified. It is difficult to know how thick the ramparts were, whether there were timber palisades, and how many entrances the fort had, so imagination plays a large part in this visualisation. With grateful thanks to Eve Boyle and Adam Welfare of Historic Environment Scotland and Professor Gordon Noble of the University of Aberdeen for their input and assistance. © Bob Marshall / badenochstorylands.com 2020.
A speculative digital reconstruction of the early sixteenth-century chancel screen of St Mary's parish church in Youghal, Ireland. Using survey measurements, I developed a computer model to help me work out a possible design for the screen and its loft. Its form is guided by the information written in historical documents and from a single piece of decorated timber, which may have been part of this original screen, found underneath the church floor during recent archaeological investigations. I have combined influences from some surviving medieval screens found in churches in several English counties. The depiction of the Last Judgement painted above the chancel arch is imaginary, and also influenced by similar mural paintings found in several medieval English churches. The Last Judgement, sometimes also referred to as a ‘Doom’, was a common feature of medieval churches. It was an instrument for highlighting the contrasts between the rewards of heaven and the agony of hell, intended to guide Christians away from sin and misbehaviour.
A digital reconstruction of Brougham Castle shows how it may have looked in 1388 following the additions and alterations made by Roger Clifford, 5th Baron of Westmoreland. This view of the castle in wintertime is from the northwest. Artist: Bob Marshall. © Historic England / English Heritage Trust. Contact Historic England Archives for Licensing enquiries.
Hi #PortfolioDay!
I'm an Architectural Illustrator from Edinburgh. I visually reconstruct heritage buildings and monuments in #Blender3D guided by archaeology, measured survey data, and by working in collaboration with historians and archaeologists.
Website: bobmarshall.co.uk
✨BOOK EVENT✨
👤 @agroundwater.bsky.social
📚 Connecting Scotland's History
📍Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway
📆 1 November
⏰ 10:30am
🎟 buff.ly/fekUapY
#AllowayWhatsOn #History #HistoryBook #ScottishHistory #BookEvent
Let me know if you find any Groundwaters! Good luck with project 👏
The KTP is a community-based transcription project, aiming to fully transcribe and eventually publish a critical edition of the Records of the Kirkwall Incorporation of Tailors, 1669-1772. Their minute book, formerly on display in Orkney Museum, is being photographed by @orkneylibrary.bsky.social .
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...
Thanks so much for tuning in! And thanks for buying it! Happy history hunting …
A reminder that my Connecting Scotlands History #edbookfest event this morning is streamed online, pay what you like! Link below! 🏴🏴
Thanks to Ronnie Barbour for fun interview @bylines.scot, fab to have such great questions that got at the heart of the book 📚, have a listen!
You were there? Me too. Blown away, mesmerising …
Great to hear that! Exactly the point of the book, thank you!
Ronnie Barbour talks with Anna Groundwater @agroundwater.bsky.social about her book "Connecting Scotland's History: A Scottish History Timeline Linked into 2,000 Years of World History | Bylines Scotland Radio
#EdinburghBookFestival
Just spotted #edbookfest bookshelves, three of ‘my’ books close together! 📚Connecting Scotland’s History, Decoding the Jewels and Kate Anderson’s The World of James VI&I in which I’ve a chapter 😊😊
@luathpress.bsky.social @nationalgalleries.bsky.social @sidestone.bsky.social
Great chat with @bylines.scot for their podcast out Saturday! Talking Connecting Scotland’s History into what’s happening in the rest of the world - ahead of my @edbookfest.bsky.social event on Monday! 🗃️🎤Thanks Ronnie Barbour!
Find it here... bylines.scot/podcast-2/
Tickets @ bit.ly/3J0amPx
A week to go @edbookfest.bsky.social Slides sent, outfit chosen, pretty excited. Fun fun playing with 2,000 years of our histories! #ConnectingScotlandsHistory Great feature #Edbookfest watch online/catch up! @luathpress.bsky.social
#scottishhistory #scotlandhistory #scotland #history #bannockburn
Many thanks for the repost!
Big thanks @scottishhistory.org for the repost!
It's brilliant that @edbookfest.bsky.social enable online as well! Thank you!
