New Collection, edited by Dr. Leith Davis (Simon Fraser University) and Dr. Kevin J. James (University of Guelph), "Shaping #Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks" is a multidisciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
New Collection 30% Discount with code NEW30! Shaping #Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks, a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism's cultural legacy from the 1688 Revolution to #Outlander @edinburghup.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
@lyoninmourning.bsky.social would like to congratulate Dr. Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society!
“Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time […] Communication may be made in broken words, the business of life be carried on with substantives alone; but that is not what we call literature…”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, ESSAYS IN THE ART OF WRITING
Very excited that my book is now available to read via Bloomsbury Open Access! 🎉
Can't wait to receive my physical copies 📘
Pre-order for your library and/or read it now here:
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
@scotlit.bsky.social @timothycbaker.bsky.social @bendoyle.bsky.social
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“The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript, held by @natlibscot.bsky.social, contains conversations, narratives, poems, songs, letters & more, relating to the 1745 rising. From 2023: Prof @drleith.bsky.social discusses the @lyoninmourning.bsky.social project findings
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A talk by author @sarasheridan.bsky.social for the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. Sara’s own historical novels include The Fair Botanists, set in Enlightenment Edinburgh, & The Secrets of Blythswood Square, set in Victorian Glasgow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfqk...
Old church building against a very blue sky.
Ornate gate posts like towers against a blue sky.
Gorgeous day in Aberdeen at the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University, chatting all things Robert Fergusson. 🌞
In Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood, there was (& I hope still is) a Victorian device built to horrify, edify, & entertain the young… When you deposit your coin, mechanical puppets re-enact the grizzly story of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber
#WyrdWednesday
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“Borderlands are sites of mystery, but they are also theatres where, as often as not, tragedy unfolds… where the dead still linger and the living come, on special occasions, to grieve.”
—“Borderlands”, by John Burnside
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/bord...
Hello to our new followers! As a scholarly publishing society, the SRS publishes critical editions of Scottish manuscript records, promoting access around the globe. Each year a new volume comes out, with copies sent to members. To join or to buy volumes:
www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/
A’ Ceangal Chruinneachaidhean: Beul-Aithris Ghàidhlig | Connecting Collections: Gaelic Oral Tradition
26 Feb @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, free
Exploring Gaelic oral tradition through handwritten manuscripts & audio recordings from the 18th century to the present
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-ceangal-...
I've giving a free online public talk tomorrow (Feb. 8) for the Scottish American History Forum. Looking forward to talking about Jacobitism and Cultural Memory. Bright and early: 8 am PT. #jacobites, #memorystudies and #18th-c media chicagoscots.org/event/scotti...
Jacobitism & Cultural Memory, 1688–1830
8 Feb, free online
Prof @drleith.bsky.social will discuss her new book, JACOBITISM & CULTURAL MEMORY, 1688–1830. The talk is free to join & aimed at a general public audience
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Yesterday, I gave presentation about my Burns book to the University of Mainz’s Scottish Hub. The presentation is now on YouTube. Link ⬇️
In a fortnight at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. A great honour (and surprise) to be asked by @asls.org.uk to deliver the lecture. Join us for a celebration of Douglas Young, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Willie Neill, and others whose work brought Gaelic and Scots closer in new ways.
Agnes Sampson, the grave matron before mentioned, after being an hour tortured by the twisting of a cord around her head, according to the custom of the Buccaneers, confessed that she had consulted with one Richard Grahame concerning the probable length of the king’s life, and the means of shortening it. But Satan, to whom they at length resorted for advice, told them in French respecting King James, Il est un homme de Dieu. The poor woman also acknowledged that she had held a meeting with those of her sisterhood, who had charmed a cat by certain spells, having four joints of men knit to its feet, which they threw into the sea to excite a tempest. Another frolic they had when, like the weird sisters in Macbeth, they embarked in sieves with much mirth and jollity, the Fiend rolling himself before them upon the waves, dimly seen, and resembling a huge haystack in size and appearance. They went on board of a foreign ship richly laded with wines, where, invisible to the crew, they feasted till the sport grew tiresome, and then Satan sunk the vessel and all on board.
“A Witches’ Frolic” – a comical illustration, “Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank Nov. 1830”, showing witches squatting in sieves, riding on and above a stormy sea and obviously enjoying themselves (although one witch is somewhat too large for her sieve, and doesn’t look as comfortable as the others). A huge black shape looms in the middle distance, with one enormous eye hinted at. A forked tail pokes out of the waves behind it. On the horizon, a square-rigged sailing ship is obviously in peril.
Walter Scott’s LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY & WITCHCRAFT (1830): an accused witch confesses – after torture – that she & others “charmed a cat by certain spells, having four joints of men knit to its feet, which they threw into the sea to excite a tempest”
#WyrdWednesday
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(Re)collecting Jacobites in Robert Forbes’s “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript
15 Feb, @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social – free
Prof @drleith.bsky.social discusses material in “The Lyon in Mourning” related to Jacobite men & women who would be otherwise lost to history
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-tal...
Flyer for the advertised event. Text reads: Scottish and Irish Gothic 11 April 50 George Square, 1.06 2pm - 6pm Followed by a reception Keynote by Claire Connolly Speakers: Christina Morin, Dale Townshend, Matthew Sangster, Maddy Potter
We’re thrilled to announce our research event on Scottish and Irish Gothic on 11 April, with a keynote by Claire Connolly and a fabulous lineup of speakers. We look forward to welcoming you.
Full details and registration below:
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The longlist for the 2024 Highland Book Prize/Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd has been announced. The award celebrates poetry, fiction, & non-fiction that comes from the landscape & culture of the Scottish Highlands & Islands.
www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/2024-longlist/
CALL FOR PAPERS 'CULTURES OF CARE IN SCOTTISH WOMEN'S WRITING' Papers are invited for a special issue which will explore the myriad ways in which the concept of care has been imagined by Scottish women writers. 'Care' encompasses a diversity of meanings across philosophical, moral, and spiritual traditions; in practices which range from social to medial to therapeutic, and beyond; and in semantic terms evokes ideas of nurture, protection, welfare; feelings of solicitude, concern, love. ‘To care for’ someone, or something, is both to experience, and to enact, such affect with vigilance and a kind of watchful attention. We are interested in the ways in which Scottish women writers - across a variety of genres and forms - have imaginatively explored the concept of care as ethos and/or practice. We also invite a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches from (for example) environmental humanities; medical humanities; history of emotion studies. Themes which might be explored include, but are not limited to: care of, and for self; care of, and for others, including communities and networks; care for nature, environment, and non-human others; therapeutic and/or medical care; concepts of welfare (individual and collective); ideas of nurture; expression of affect and emotion (including anxiety); care as cultural activism; writing/ creating as an act of care; the experience of being taken care of. Please send 200-word abstracts and a short bio to s.m.dunnigan@ed.ac.uk and amcinto9@ed.ac.uk by Thursday 30 January 2025
CFP: Cultures of Care in Scottish Women’s Writing
Special issue of SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW
ed. by Dr @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social & Dr @ainsley76.bsky.social
Please send abstracts for consideration by 30 January 2025
Full details below
The Adder of Quinag Olive Fraser The grey roots circle thee, who never knew At any hour within thy travels lone A human shape but mine. Thou com’st to view, Wild, unafraid, what stands beside thy stone And gazes on thee in thy wilderness Of fifty miles. What thinkst thou of me, For I am of a race thou could’st not guess Would murder all thy hapless innocency? O mountain, take thy small heart back again And keep him in thy care when I shall go, Unvisited by all things but the rain, The hurtless sunbeams, and the winds that blow For ever in his moors. O let him hold No intricate memory of that being who stood Just once by his wild beauty, and did fold Him with a blessing alien to my blood.
The grey roots circle thee, who never knew
At any hour within thy travels lone
A human shape but mine…
—Olive Fraser, “The Adder of Quinag”
A poem for the #YearoftheSnake 🐍
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/adder-q...
Lyra Celtica: Harry Josephine Giles on Wilfion
19 Feb, Edinburgh – free
Harry Josephine Giles & special guests explore the work & legacy of genderweird Celtic Revival writer Fiona Macleod / William Sharp (1855–1905) – known as “Wilfion” by their wife
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Ruthless marginalia sighting of the day:
On the subject of #Bookhistory valentines, I do have a soft spot for this 19th century Glasgow example eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b1655... (read more about these here: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...)
Me reading 'Bardic Nationalism' and thinking about English efforts to cleanse Irish Catholics of their language and faith and thinking about how Protestants and Catholics did the same to Indigenous people in Canada through residential schools.
earlycanadianhistory.ca/2021/11/15/t...
A small book shaped like a romantic heart, with handwritten poems inside.
Thanks for all the kind messages after yesterday's wobble. 💙
The “Heart Book” from c.1550 is a collection of 83 Danish love ballads collected at the court of King Christian III. It's the oldest known Danish manuscript of its kind, and an early example of the heart signifying romantic love.
Robert Burns: Mythbusters
31 Jan, free online
In this season of Burns celebrations, Dr Peter Kormylo will deliver an “Immortal Memory” with the above title, complemented by recitations by Hanna Dyka of selected Burns poetry in Ukrainian translations
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READING SCOTLAND with Paul Malgrati The Bard of Contention: Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics Tuesday, 04th February 2025 6.00 - 7.30 pm (German time) on MS Teams www.scotland.uni-mainz.de
The Bard of Contention: Robert Burns & Scottish Cultural Politics
4 Feb, free online
@paulmalgrati.bsky.social explores the transformations of Burns’s image in the late modern era, as revolutionaries, nationalists, & avant-garde writers co-opted his myth
www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scot...
Excited to share that my new book, Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1830 with @CambridgeUP's Elements series is available for free download for the next 72 hours. Written with non-specialists in mind as well as Jacobite scholars. #jacobites #18th-c
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