A new walking guide of the Union Canal is now available to download from our website.
#unioncanal #edinburghwalks #porthopetoun #lochrin #tollcross #fountainbridge #edinburghsindustrialpast #canalwalks
Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with @nicolaparsons.bsky.social and at Glasgow with me.
Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships....
Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.
The Creature from the Pit has one of the best delivered lines ever - glad it's in this trailer: 'WE call it "The Pit"': www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYEW...
Our next lecture will take place on Tuesday 21 April 2026 at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, London, and online via Zoom. Matthew Payne, Keeper of the Muniments at Westminster Abbey (also Treasurer and a Vice-President of the Society) will deliver the Graham Pollard memorial lecture.
innovative research is being done on Edinburgh's history thanks the Jean Guild funding and it was great to meet some of the other grant holders and find out about their projects: oldedinburghclub.org.uk/projects/jea... (More about the Watson's project is here: www.wssociety-heritage.co.uk/jwi/)
Enjoyed presenting work on the John Watson's Institution Archive at the Signet Library with @lixmount.bsky.social and @johockey.bsky.social AND my 'Book Borrowing Surgeons' at the @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social Jean Guild Grants Showcase yesterday. Some truly illuminationg, interesting, and...
Tonight is the Jean Guild Award showcase of the excellent Old Edinburgh Club. Worth joining if only for online access to The Book of The Old Edinburgh Club, published since 1908
Cover of a book published in April 2016 entitled 'Charles Areskine's Library: Lawyers and their Books a the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment'. The main colours are a very vivid yellow and an electric blue. The illustration is of three eighteenth-century gentlemen complete with wigs who are sitting at at table which has some books on it. Behind them are book shelves and a door. There is a red carpet under them. Just visible in front of them is the head of a small spaniel. The spaniel is looking at the three men hopefully, no doubt wanting a more exciting activity to participate in. It's a crop of a fuller version in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland.
Not all books are destined to be best sellers, but this one, my first, means a lot to me. And it has a birthday this month! www.kgbaston.co.uk/2026/04/10/h... ✒️📖
One of the better afternoons of my life was spent in reading the final draft of @kgbaston.bsky.social 's book "Charles Areskine's Library: Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment". Kit writes about this fantastic book 10 years on: www.kgbaston.co.uk/2026/04/10/h...
Cover of a book published in April 2016 entitled 'Charles Areskine's Library: Lawyers and their Books a the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment'. The main colours are a very vivid yellow and an electric blue. The illustration is of three eighteenth-century gentlemen complete with wigs who are sitting at at table which has some books on it. Behind them are book shelves and a door. There is a red carpet under them. Just visible in front of them is the head of a small spaniel. The spaniel is looking at the three men hopefully, no doubt wanting a more exciting activity to participate in. It's a crop of a fuller version in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland.
Not all books are destined to be best sellers, but this one, my first, means a lot to me. And it has a birthday this month! www.kgbaston.co.uk/2026/04/10/h... ✒️📖
VACANCY: 30 month Postdoctoral researcher in Legal History (ERC Consolidator Grant IsThisFrench) (Bordeaux: Université de Bordeaux) [DEADLINE 16 APR 2026]
esclh.blogspot.com/2026/04/vaca...
The Bibliographical Society is delighted to announce the launch of a redesigned version of the London Book Trades Database, details of which are in this month’s Council’s Choice:
bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
George Buchanan’s Afterlives: Borrowings of Buchanan’s Works in Scottish Libraries, c.1750–1840
14 May, Stirling – free (suggested donation £5)
Prof Katie Halsey traces how George Buchanan’s works were borrowed & read in Scotland across the #C18th & early #C19th
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evening-ta...
Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century
Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland.
Deadline April 21st - please circulate!
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
Surely you have transferable skills (e.g. collecting data) and can get some testimonials from cats?
Read the blog post by the co-editor of Library & Information History, Jill Dye!
@jilld17.bsky.social
This! It's usually the way to make anything on academic publishing. I've made *something* every year since I joined @alcs.co.uk and, beyond the cash, it's always gratifying to see the download to know that things I published are being used. Especially since I'm an independent scholar these days!
Wow! This is my biggest statement yet! Thank you @alcs.co.uk and whoever has put my stuff on reading lists! (I'm spending mine on not worrying quite so much about being out of work just now. It's a lifeline!)
What a fantastic day of Scottish History awaits! Join us on 28th March for our conference, AGM and presidential lecture. Free to members, £6 non-members
Register here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/scott...
Please share!
Wear feathers, but don't bring your dog! Great weekend fun suggestions here:
200 years of Edinburgh football: #OTD 20 March 1826, a receipt to John Hope for the rental of Dalry Park, for archery in summer and his Foot-Ball Club in winter. The club - the world's first - was founded in 1824 and played on one of the fields near Dalry House.
A somewhat fanciful black-and-white late-Victorian engraving. The caption reads "Ossian finding his own son, Oscar, wounded". Ossian, a long-haired, bearded warrior wearing a conical helmet, is bending down to take the hand of his son Oscar – another long-haired warrior, although beardless – who is lying on the ground, a shield and a short sword beside him. A troop of other warriors stand in the background; one of them carries a banner on a pole.
The #AcademyAwards are upon us, & no-one is sure how the #Oscars got their name. Bette Davis’s first husband? Margaret Herrick’s uncle? But “Oscar” – a name from ancient #Gaelic legend – owes its modern popularity to James Macpherson’s #C18th “Ossian” poems
#romanticism
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🖼️ from CHATTERBOX (1890)
We're delighted to be welcoming Prof. Abigail Williams to CEMS on 18th March. She'll be delivering a talk on the reading practices of non-elites in the long eighteenth century. Join us if you can. Full details below!
18 March, 17:30
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/in-th...
Image of SRC-branded cupcakes on silver trays on a table.
Happy 140th birthday @glasgowunisrc.bsky.social! 🍰
Find out more about what the SRC are doing to mark this milestone, including their contributions to 'Glasgow Makes People: 575 Years of Student Life', a new exhibition coming to the Library: www.glasgowunisrc.org/whatson/src-...
#SRC140 #TeamUofG
Another day, another 'you've been unsuccessful and your application won't be progressed' email. 😞 #OpenToWork www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kit... #ShyBairnsGetNowt
Blue tinged old map of Edinburgh city centre. In the foreground is a sepia toned map of the city with a sketch of the University of Edinburgh's Old College popping out from it. There is text to the left of the image which reads: Edinburgh City of Medicine- 300 years of Edinburgh Medical School. Opens Friday 3 April 2026
Uncover the city mapped by medicine in our new temporary exhibition in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh City of Medicine: 300 years of Edinburgh Medical School will open on Friday 3 April.
museum.rcsed.ac.uk/the-collecti...
Lots of #BookHistory action happening in Edinburgh later this month (20-27 March) with 'Rare Books Edinburgh 2026' - maybe see you at some of these events? rarebooksedinburgh.com 📖📚
Can confirm!
Scene from the BBC's 'Small Prophets' showing two DIY shop workers standing in front of a display of blue buckets.
Buckets? Out of fashion....
Promo for talk https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-on-the-patrons-of-mackintosh-with-lorraine-murray-tickets-1970289804845
Description of Patrons of Mackintosh talk by Lorraine Murray
⚠️ Attn #Glasgow folks! 🚨
Come along to my new talk focusing on the Patrons of Charles Rennie #Mackintosh - Catherine Cranston, Walter Blackie and William Davidson. Next Sunday #IWD 8 March 2026 @1pm at Mackintosh Tearooms on Sauchiehall Street, £8 booking info:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-on-...