On a related note, an excerpt from "Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts" by Christopher de Hamel. #AcademicSky #Skystorians #BookSky lithub.com/finding-a-be... Hamel is a Fellow of the Society of #Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society.
Our Library & Collections team at @antiquaries.bsky.social has a vacancy for a fixed-term Loans Coordinator - the closing date is Monday!
Further details & how to apply 👇
www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
#museumjobs #artsjobs #heritage #museum #collections #antiquaries #artefacts #history #library
A @antiquaries.bsky.social display of early-printed books on witchcraft, death & the occult just wasn't enough for #halloween, so I also dressed up as an early-printed book. 💀
#antiquaries #rarebooks #print #macabre #woodcut #broadside #library #spooky #witchcraft #oldbooks #history
Green book cover showing an image of a book case with the title "The Caledoniad: The making of Scottish history" by Catriona M. M. Macdonald
On my way down to London for a research trip and reading Catriona Macdonald's "The Caledoniad" on the way. So much information on the antiquarian community that I studied for my thesis and familiar names like old friends. #ScottishHistory #Antiquaries #ScottishArchives
Fakes and forgeries out on display today at @antiquaries.bsky.social for our April Fool's themed Open Friday 🎉 Including real medieval pilgrim badges and Victorian 'Billy and Charley' forgeries!
#fakes #forgeries #archaeology #antiquaries
Bank of Scotland #BoS est 1695
#Darien Scheme 1698
#ActofUnion 1707
#Jacobite Rising 1715
BoS suspected of support-> #thefifteen
Royal Bank of Scotland #RBS est 1727
2nd Jacobite Rising 1745
#thefortyfive ends at #Culloden 1746
Society of #Antiquaries of #Scotland est 1780
#antiqs hedges bank risk?
There's a vacancy at @antiquaries.bsky.social for a permanent p/t Governance & Grants officer - come work in beautiful Burlington House with our wonderful library!
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#heritagejobs #artsjobs #antiquaries
Very good attendance at #Society of #Antiquaries of #Scotland Anniversary General Meeting 2024
Nice conversation about the Society's choice of banks - both #BoS & #RBS - and whether this might have related to #Jacobites, with #Culloden being only 34 years before #Antiqs founded in 1780
Society of #Antiquaries of #Scotland 2024 impact report shows how we’ve been able to deepen understanding of Scotland’s past, helping to better inform the present & future. Report illustrattes positive impacts the work of the Society has achieved over the past year for people & #heritage
#antiqs
congratulations on your article "Let's be Frank: a re-examination of the #Lochlea crannog bit in a continental context" in the new #PSAS Proceedings of the Society of #Antiquaries of #Scotland that just thudded through my letterbox!
