Early modern history, scottish parliament, weather (especially wind and rain), time, and teinds
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9 Sep 2021
Breaking (Feb 1644):
reporte of ane cow in Castletoun out of whose bellie, as reporte is, issued a flamme of fire
More as we get it.
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18 Nov 2024
Excited to be composing my first @ScotCouncil SPCR footnotes now that spcr.ac.uk is live. It's almost as thrilling as walking on freshly fallen snow.
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17 Nov 2024
Save Undergraduate Education at Wales’s Historic Lampeter Campus - Sign the Petition! chng.it/K82x6HHpMC via @UKChange
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16 Nov 2024
Haven't decided finally to leave this place but I've set up on blue-sky with the same @estaitis handle. See you over there?
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Alan R MacDonald retweeted
8 Nov 2024
We welcome submissions from any PhD student or ECR working on any part of #ScottishHistory. Please DM or email with any questions.
Previous prize winners include: @stevenjohnreid @kmschultz24 @JulietteDespor1 Cathryn Spence, Chris Langley, @lauraidoak, @SiobhanTalbott 👀
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Alan R MacDonald retweeted
in retrospect, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords really might've been a better basis for a system of government.
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4 Nov 2024
There’s one easy thing that universities could do to make their PhD graduates more successful and employable. Just give them online library access rights for a few years/life. It seems like such an easy win.
There’s probably a tech reason why it would be unmanageable but…
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1 Nov 2024
My database of the accounts of production and sale of lime by @SirWalterDundas now has 4,500 entries of individual sales. Expecting it to top 5,000 before I'm done.
This had better be worth it!
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Historic Scottish government records published online for first time - University of Stirling
stir.ac.uk/news/2024/october…
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Alan R MacDonald retweeted
24 Oct 2024
The @ScotCouncil website is officially launched!
Visit spcr.ac.uk to explore Scotland’s Privy Council records from 1692-1708. Now available in #openaccess transcriptions for the first time!
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Alan R MacDonald retweeted
22 Oct 2024
I wrote a piece on my recent @sgsah internship. Hoping my experience will inspire others who are thinking about creative ways to communicate their research ✨
21 Oct 2024
🔮📖 Concluding her @sgsah internship with the @AberdeenCC archives, @strutzenbladh writes about all things #fiction & #storytelling. Read too about her #tarot cards inspired by medieval women, illustrated by images from @aberdeenuni collections:
sgsahblog.com/2024/10/21/tur…
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Alan R MacDonald retweeted
24 Oct 2024
After more than 4 years of work, the @ScotCouncil online database is officially live! Providing a searchable edition of the Privy Council record for 1692-1708, it is a major milestone in Scottish historical scholarship. Check it out here: spcr.ac.uk/
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24 Oct 2024
The Scottish Privy Council Records @ScotCouncil are live!
Find them at spcr.ac.uk
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Alan R MacDonald retweeted
22 Oct 2024
I'm delighted that @sgsah is going to be funding an internship at @natlibscot looking at one of our "hidden collections" of US politics material!!
It's open to any 2nd/3rd year PhDs in Scotland (no need to be SGSAH-funded)- closing date 15th Nov!😊
sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/2025/he…
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28 Sep 2024
Multiple possible responses to this, including 'Why are A-levels' such a poor indicator of ability?'.
25 Sep 2024
I’d like to imagine a world where universities are places for growth and development. Where hard working lecturers support students’ learning. Where your prospects are not fixed at 18.
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20 Sep 2024
God bless it and all who browse in it!
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20 Sep 2024
We @ScotCouncil are hosting an event @StirUni marking the launch of our website on Thursday 24 October, 4pm-6pm.
Registration is free and the event can be attended either in person or remotely. Please sign up via the following link:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-…..
Please share!
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Alan R MacDonald retweeted
15 Aug 2024
🚨The Parliamentary History Essay Prize 2024 is open!
The prize is worth £500 and winners will have their essay published in @Parlhistjournal
The submission deadline is 30 Nov 2024
@WileyHumanities @HistParl @TheVictCommons @GeorgianLords #twitterstorians
For details 👇
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ALT Parliament of the United Kingdom https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Houses_of_Parliament.jpg
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🚨2 WEEKS LEFT 🚨
Submission deadline for abstracts is 1 October. The conference will be hybrid and so we welcome proposals for in-person or online papers. RT, share & send us your proposals 🤩
Text only:
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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17 Sep 2024
A great idea for a book! Get your thinking caps on but don't seek too much inspiration from Old John Barleycorn!
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Alan R MacDonald retweeted
16 Sep 2024
To David Mitchell, merchand in Edinburgh, 7 Nov 1608: Receive agayne from the bearar the hatt quhilk ye send, becaus it is sa wyd in the seitt that in nawayes it serves, and if ye haif ane less, send it, and if ye haif it nocht ... pleasour me with ane quhair ye may haif it
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Alan R MacDonald retweeted
15 Sep 2024
“Art makes you see beyond your own limitations and horizons.
It’s a system of control to keep people where they are to cut funding to the arts in education”
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