English Prof @SFUenglish; Director @sfuscottishstudies; #18thc.; early #19thc; #bookhistory; #culturalmemory; early #circus; amateur #trad musician.
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5 Apr 2022
The hard copies arrived last week!! Very exciting. Thank you @CambridgeUP !
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7 Nov 2025
Lights, camera… Scotland! 🎬
Scotland’s dramatic landscapes have set the scene for some of the world’s most iconic films. From historic glens to coastal villages, these locations might look familiar…
#FilmLocations #ScotlandOnScreen #ThisIsScotland
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"A memorial celebrating Prime of Miss Jean Brodie author Dame Muriel Spark is to be erected in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens - the first time in the park’s 200- year history that a woman will be commemorated there."
scotsman.com/arts-and-cultur…
#scottishsfu #murielspark
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22 Jul 2025
Did you know that over half of all publications by women between around 1650 and 1690 were prophecies? We need a new approach to women’s literary history 📚 #womenswriting #womenshistory
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160 years ago, a Scots peer died during the first expedition to the top of the Matterhorn. His body was never recovered & his descendants still hope it might be found. Learn more about the new book that has just been released about this event.
scotsman.com/heritage-and-re…
#scottishsfu
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21 Jul 2025
Robert Burns died #otd 1796.
Today we launch the 22nd run of the free online Burns course @GlasgowBurns
107 learners have joined, another global cohort
Looking forward to engaging with them!
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futurelearn.com/courses/robe…
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21 Jul 2025
Signatures of Robert Burns in the excise salary book for Dumfries, showing the poet’s declining health.
Burns, an exciseman, was signing to confirm he had received his wages. The final signature is from one week before he died on 21 July 1796.
ALT Three signatures excerpted from an excise book recording Robert Burns signing for his wages. The handwriting is scratchy in the first two, and clearly drawn with difficulty in a shaky hand for the last, which includes a large inkblot.
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21 Jul 2025
Have you visited our new display yet? Called Inspiring the Nation: 300 years of Libraries in Scotland. Produced by @HistEnvScot it contains wonderful images detailing how libraries have become cherished parts of communities across Scotland. Showing until Saturday 20th September.
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21 Jul 2025
...suppose we've waited long enough to show you this ABSOLUTELY TOP SECRET SPECIAL ISSUE (2025) CONTENTS page.
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8 Jul 2025
30% DISCOUNT with code NEW30! Shaping Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks is a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy with chapters considering #Jacobites from the 1688 Revolution to #Outlander. @EdinburghUP
edinburghuniversitypress.com…
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17 Jul 2025
The new collection edited by @LeithDavis & Kevin James is now up for pre-order, and it's 30% off with the code NEW30 at @EdinburghUP. My chapter on #Jacobite witness networks appears alongside a wonderful collection of esteemed historians and scholars.
edinburghuniversitypress.com…
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10 Jul 2025
ooh--look what I just found! apparently by Charles Durang, son of John Durang (of "Durang's Hornpipe" fame). Researching #circus takes you to interesting places.
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10 Jul 2025
30% OFF with code NEW30! Shaping #Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks, a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism's cultural legacy. #Jacobites from the 1688 Revolution to #Outlander @EdinburghUP
edinburghuniversitypress.com…
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8 Jul 2025
Today is the 203rd anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s tragic death. He was only 29 when he drowned off the coast of Italy during a violent storm. Read “I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar” (2022), a collection of essays honoring his life and writings.
gothickeatspress.com/essays-…
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Thanks to @OrkneyLibrary we are aware that today is #CowAppreciationDay! Our collection includes this glorious early twentieth-century book of children's poetry (marketed as 'untearable'), entitled simply 'MOO COWS'. @theUL 1907.11.60. 🐮
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MacGill Summer School Programme just published - hopefully one more speaker to be added before 17th July - Registration Now Open: Book Tickets Online.
Source: MacGill Summer School share.google/hDO3sVfhJEU8EPD…
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7 Jul 2025
Happy July! We give you our beloved City Art Centre painting by Joan Eardley.
'July Fields'
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley (1921–1963)
City Art Centre
#summer #scottishart
ALT Painting by Joan Eardley, featuring a vibrant, textured depiction of a rural scene with wildflowers and fields under a cloudy sky. © the Eardley estate. All rights reserved, DACS 2025. Image credit: Museums & Galleries Edinburgh – City of Edinburgh Council
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7 Jul 2025
A celebration of chocolate from 1662 #WorldChocolateDay
ALT 1662 title page
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📘 The Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince offers fresh perspectives on the life, legacy, and literary significance of the first Black woman to publish an autobiography in Britain. Essential reading for students of slavery, gender, and 19th-century literature: cup.org/3HpvzBJ #MaryPrince
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7 Jul 2025
How we celebrated Canada Day in Scotland? 🇨🇦🏴
With haggis poutines, maple burgers, and ketchup chips at Down the Hatch - of course!
We hope you had a wonderful Canada Day wherever you celebrated!
#CanadaDay2025 #EdinburghFood #Edinburgh #Canada #Scotland #ScottishFood
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