A database of Scottish Protestant preachers & their families | Supported by @NEHgov & the Strathmartine Trust
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25 Mar 2024
Very much looking forward to the Durkan Lecture tomorrow evening, delivered by (friend the project!) Dr John McCallum. The lecture is entitled 'Emotion in Religious Controversy in Jacobean Scotland'. Book your place here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/durkan-le…
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15 Sep 2023
Find out more about our early experiences of using @WikibaseCloud on our project blog:
mappingthescottishreformatio…
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15 Sep 2023
Come & look at our laboratory! We're using @WikibaseCloud to test some new approaches to managing our data.
Stay tuned as we add more of our data to this new tool.
msrtest.wikibase.cloud/
ALT Black text on white background showing the MSR Test on Wikibase Cloud webpage
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Refresh yourselves on how to use our demo website with none other than Dr Jamie Reid-Baxter!
youtu.be/2x7TPBWXDPc?si=se8g…
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16 Jan 2023
803 clerics with educational data & counting! Over double the size of our previous dataset!
Some initial observations...🧵
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16 Jan 2023
These insights stem from our dataset of over 1,300 ministers & over 2,000 clerical appointments. Our data collection for areas outside of the Central Belt is at the v early stages so stay tuned as we add more precise detail.
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16 Jan 2023
Always check your data entry: out of over 2,000 entries, there's always one outlier!
Spare a thought for William Home, a seventeenth-century minister based in the Scottish Borders. Somehow, we doubt his time at Ayton ended in 664AD.
*ahem*
ALT Data entry form for Mapping the Scottish Reformation project. The bottom pane shows an entry for the parish of Ayton with an end date of 664, rather than 1664.
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We can't wait to share our expanded dataset with you. Over 2,000 clerical appointments!
ALT Map of Scotland
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Very complex clerical migration patterns!
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11 Aug 2022
For those of you who couldn't attend our presentation at @NatRecordsScot, why not watch it on YouTube?
Find out more on how technology can help us understand a critical period of Scotland's past.
youtu.be/kKkFvyc0qFQ
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28 Jul 2022
The details of 1,919 clerical appointments between 1560 & 1750 collected so far. We're working hard to broaden our dataset!
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Thank you to colleagues at @NatRecordsScot for hosting us this evening & allowing us to talk about our project.
If you weren’t able to make it, keep your eyes on the NRS YouTube channel in the coming days for a recording of the talk.
youtube.com/channel/UCl53L-I…
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7 Jul 2022
@MikkiBrock @Chris_R_Langley @MappingScotsRef fantastic presentation about the database of Mapping the Scottish Reformation 👏👏👏
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