Volunteer Louise Pengelley shows a page from the 1638 Mercator Atlas to delegates of the Societies of Antiquaries of Ireland and Scotland today at the delightful Library of Innerpeffray, Scotland’s oldest free lending library - established 1680! https://innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk
A one-day #sciencefiction convention in Perth – a chance to talk about #books, #games, #films etc. with an emphasis on #Scottish writers. Guest of honour Francesca Barbini, founder of Luna Press
A rare intact lead doll from the 16th or 17th century has been discovered by mudlarking metal detectorist Sarah Brackstone in Long Whatton, in Leicestershire. http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/70440
In their article, Freyer and Gehring provide us with an overview over how #English and #British#emdiplomacy developed from the 16th to the 18th century. Traditionally, research stressed #England’s diplomatic relations with #Spain and #France. With a broader understanding of English interests coming to the fore, the research focus widened accordingly.
#Scotland and England followed their own diplomatic agendas in the 16th century, exercising #diplomacy in different ways and with different partners. However, this included also each other with intensive diplomatic contacts in the 1530s and 1540s as well as the 1560s and 1570s. The #UnionoOfTheCrown in 1603 changed the preconditions for English and Scottish diplomacy according to Freyer and Gehring, as England became dominant for foreign relations, although in theory Scottish diplomacy could have run alongside the English. (4/6)
"The Scottish newspaper the Press and Journal has published a series of articles about the Scots language. This series includes a Spikkin Scots interactive map which features a number of sound recordings of people speaking Scots across the whole of Scotland."
"The Scottish newspaper the Press and Journal has published a series of articles about the Scots language. This series includes a Spikkin Scots interactive map which features a number of sound recordings of people speaking Scots across the whole of Scotland."
🏴 "However, he was a mathematician of some skill, and his textbook The Elements of Mathematical Analysis, Abridged, for the Use of Students is of interest for his view of analysis. Though he was unable to complete a more comprehensive work for publication, many manuscripts survive in St Andrews University Library. Vilant’s book and manuscripts and the reception of his work are here examined."
Scottish Pastoral: celebrating 300 years of Allan Ramsay’s Gentle Shepherd, seeking papers on pastoral(ism) & development, improvement, #colonialism, or #class in #Scotland across the long durée
LADY MACBETH: Gothic fantasy by Ava Reid coming out in August! Reid wrote The Wolf and the Woodsman and Juniper and Thorn, both of which I loved. #bookstodon#Scotland#gothic#fiction@bookstodon
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1649, Charles I of #England#Scotland and #Ireland was executed just outside the Banqueting House, London. It was a chilly day and he wore an extra shirt so he wouldn't shiver (worried the gathered people would think he was afraid instead of cold). The axe man took his head in one blow.
Unpopular as an adult, Charles was never meant to be king - he only was 11 when his older brother Henry died, making Charles the heir rather than the spare. #OTD#histodons@histodons
The latest issue of Books From Scotland is online – featuring
The Kavya Prize
Clairmont
Queering the Greek Myths
Ava Anna Ada
Kevin the Orange
Who’s Aldo?
Green New Worlds
The Hotel Hokusai
James Clerk Maxwell
Café Canna
10 Scotland Street
The Bumblebee Garden
Poor Things
The Salt & the Flame
Sleekit
To the Dogs
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
This delightful figure of the #Roman god #Mercury is holding a purse and he has winged feet and wears his winged helmet. He was seen as protecting the pay of Roman soldiers, so this figure may have belonged to a soldier.
May he protect your wages too!
🏛 Hermes-Mercurius found in Barnhill, Perth, #Scotland
“Farewell Miss Julie Logan: A Wintry Tale”, by J.M. Barrie
Written in diary form & telling of an uncanny romance in a remote winter glen, “Farewell Miss Julie Logan” evokes J.M. Barrie’s fascination with longing, death & loss in one of the most unnerving & tenacious examples of #Gothic fiction ever to come from #Scotland
Listen to the story online, courtesy of Romancing the Gothic:
The Pirate Who Stole Scotland: William Dampier and the Creation of the United Kingdom
He was a pirate, a brute and a devious sociopath. But he was also a scientist and a talented writer who gave his readers accurate descriptions of previously unknown places, peoples, plants and animals. He was a daring explorer and an expert navigator who mapped coastlines and logged wind patterns and ocean currents. @bookstodon #books #nonfiction #biography #history #WilliamDampier #Scotland #England
A SPIRITUALIST’S WIFE STRUGGLES to come to terms with her husband’s new world of séances and “readings”—and fears he’ll find out some of her own secrets. Lush evocation of post-World War I Scotland and the frenzies of Jazz Age society. B PLUS
A sweeping YA fantasy inspired by Scottish history and folklore, Our Divine Mischief takes readers on a journey told in three voices: a determined heroine, an outcast young man, and a wish-granting canine. Their adventure spans an island fishing village to the king’s court in a story about identity, belonging, and the love between a human and her dog.
“Scotland’s a Sense of Change”: History in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair & James Robertson’s And the Land Lay Still
14 Nov, free online
Ilka Schwittlinsky looks at Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A SCOTS QUAIR & James Robertson’s AND THE LAND LAY STILL, & analyses changing #Scottish#identity in the #20thcentury by looking at their depiction of Scottish #history & life in #Scotland
An instant international bestseller: a suspenseful, sweeping historical epic for readers of Natalie Haynes and Madeline Miller, which boldly reimagines the origin story of the woman who inspired one of Shakespeare’s most iconic characters, Lady Macbeth.
Scottish Society for Northern Studies half-day conference – exploring literary cross-currents between Scotland & Scandinavia via the prism of crime fiction
When the hunter becomes the prey. My new novel ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set mainly in central Scotland and the far north-west.
Sandwood Bay in north-west Sutherland has an important part to play in the story as it develops, and the book reaches its climax nearby.