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David Worthington

@davidworthington.bsky.social
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Historian. Manager. Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Business and Education, University of the Highlands and Islands. www.uhi.ac.uk/en/about-uhi/senior-m…

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David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A pleasure to say a few words at this. I can't quite claim to have read the book as a five-year old back in the hot summer of '76. But I've returned to it at several points in life, and, without its author, I wouldn't have come to work at @thinkuhi.bsky.social, one of my better moves. Congrats, all!
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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Have just read on the BBC that "the UK's first 'super-university', stretching across an entire region" is to be creaed by merging the universities of Kent and Greenwich, and I'm thinking it's a shame they've never heard of the University of the Highlands and Islands.
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Simon Varwell @hisasimon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Really excited with support from @thinkuhi.bsky.social to be recruiting Faculty Interns for 25-26, who will advance the student voice in quality in our subject areas and work with wonderful staff including @davidworthington.bsky.social. This and other current posts at: hisa.uhi.ac.uk/about/workfo...
A square image of a recruitment icon. It says "We are hiring!" with "Faculty Intern Roles" under that. Further detail explains that they are a hybrid role, part-time, £12.60 per hour, and the application deadline is 22nd June. There's a wee HISA logo in the bottom left which is a white logo with, believe it or not, the word "HISA" on it.
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David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
James Fraser or Mary, Queen of Scots? The choice is yours on this shelf in Waterstone's, Inverness.
A bookshelf in a bookshop showing my book on James Fraser alongside multiple works on Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 07/05/2025
Researching & Writing Highland Lives 17 May, Waterstones Inverness – free Historians Jennifer Morag Henderson & @davidworthington.bsky.social, chaired by @shonamaclean.bsky.social, will discuss researching & writing about the history of the Highlands & its people www.waterstones.com/events/telli...
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Telling Their Stories: Researching & Writing Highland Lives | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Telling Their Stories: Researching & Writing Highland Lives today.
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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Sometimes I forget how much I love the C17th and how I feel sorry for people who study history and don't know it's the BEST century. Currently reading for an event at Waterstones Inverness on 17th May with @davidworthington.bsky.social and Jennifer Morag Henderson (Daughters of the North).
A copy of "Rev. James Fraser, 1634-1709" (EUP) by Prof. David Worthngton.
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David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Nice to see this poster in the window of Waterstones Inverness, advertising an upcoming event (17 May) with Jennifer Henderson and myself, chaired by @shonamaclean.bsky.social. It will focus on approaches to researching and writing Highland lives, with a strong focus on #EarlyModern themes.
Shop window poster advertising an upcoming event in Waterstones Inverness on writing Scottish Highland biographies.
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David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Spent an inspiring, enjoyable and, at turns, moving half hour chatting to Prof James Hunter and Dr Karen Cullen today in prep for this. First time the three of us have talked together in almost fifteen years! Hard to convey just how vital those two were to the early years of @uhihistory.bsky.social
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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Post Doc! "Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture" Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #Skystorians 🗃
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IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship | IASH
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is something to celebrate: the Centre for History is an innovative and creative department whose important work researching and teaching history with and in communities across the Highlands and Islands should be a model for institutions across the country.
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Elaine Morrison @elainemorrison.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Book post is best. Home from work to find the paperback of @davidworthington.bsky.social ‘s fine book waiting for me. That’s school holiday reading sorted.
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UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We are so excited to team up with @insuhi.bsky.social, @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social, HTC & @thinkuhi.bsky.social Literature, & be part of the new MLitt programme, Early Modern European Studies (EMES)! Enrolments for Sept 2025 and Jan 2026 will open shortly, so visit bit.ly/3EUjymB for more info!
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UHI Launches New Early Modern European Studies MLitt
The University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies, in collaboration with the UHI Centre for History, UHI Archaeology Institute, UHI Highland Theological College and UHI Lit…
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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The team behind the award-winning Uist Virtual Archaeology Project have been awarded funding for a new three-year digital heritage interpretation project in the Outer Hebrides. #archaeology #ThinkUHI archaeologyorkney.com/2025/02/12/u...
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Funding secured to expand digital archaeology across Outer Hebrides - Archaeology Orkney
The Uist Virtual Archaeology Project has secured funding that will allow it to expand into Barra and Harris.
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SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Meet our EARTH Scholars 🌎 In Spring 2025, 10 researchers from around the world will collaborate with 10 Scotland-based scholars, academics & partners to address #EnvHum & #ClimateEmergency issues in innovative ways 🍃 Learn more about the #EARTH2025 cohort 🔗 sgsah.ac.uk/prospective/...
A cyan square with 20 circular photos of PhD researchers from around the world. Congratulations is written in blue text above the photos, and the British Council Scotland and SGSAH logos are at the bottom
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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There’s a distinct UHI Archaeology Institute flavour to the new issue of Archaeology Scotland Magazine with three articles from students and lecturers. archaeologyorkney.com/2025/02/07/a... #archaeology #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch
Holly Young and Kath Page with the latest issue of Archaeology Scotland.
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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Dr Andrew Lind & Dr Andrew Jennings @thinkuhi.bsky.social in #Prague to discuss HerInDep project. Depopulation in European periphery regions & how affects #culture & #heritage See blog bit.ly/3Q88PqQ
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INS Lecturers in Prague to Finalise HerInDep Conference
The Heritage in Depopulated European Areas (HerInDep) project examines how the decline in population in peripheral regions of Europe is leading to the loss of cultural heritage, as well as the aban…
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UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Find out more about 2 of our brilliant PGRs, as Dr Iain Robertson reflects on his latest trip to the Western Isles to visit Mhairi Ferrier & Jo MacDonald. Their research projects are funded by @sgsah.bsky.social & we are working together with some amazing partners. For full story ➡️ bit.ly/40L3Xy3
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Place and Community-based Projects in the Western Isles
Dr Iain Robertson reflects on his recent trip to visit his PhD students in Harris and South Uist
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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Dr Paul Malgrati, @thinkuhi.bsky.social INS Lecturer, BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends talks about his research and book on Robert Burns's political legacy.... Available on BBC Sounds Catch Up... bit.ly/4gdHWMU
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Loose Ends - Susie McCabe, Peat and Diesel, Carina Contini, Meredith Brook, Paul Malgrati - BBC Sounds
Clive Anderson and guests have their very own Burns Supper.
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UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 REMRA is hosting its 1st interdisciplinary conference on Northern Narratives! To register your interest, please contact the conference team (remra@uhi.ac.uk) by 21 Feb 2025. For info, see below ⬇️ or visit bit.ly/4arhSwx @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social @thinkuhi.bsky.social
Old, drawn map of Europe and the logo of REMRA (Renaissance and Early Modern Research Alliance - University of Highlands and Islands), with a stylised image of a ship with sails. Text reads: Call for Papers. Northern Narratives: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Early Modern Period in the North Atlantic and BalticREMRA is excited to host its first multidisciplinary conference from 11 to 13 June 2025 to discuss its exciting research with academic colleagues in the field. We therefore invite papers in the following categories:

Early Modern Warfare in the North Atlantic/ Baltic
Early Modern Culture/ Archaeology in the North Atlantic  
Early Modern Public History 
Early Modern Communities and Identities

Keynote speakers include Dr Lucy Dean (UHI), Professor Mark Elliot (UHI) and Dr Simon Burton (University of Edinburgh), Professor Mark Gardiner (University of Lincoln) and Professor Steve Murdoch (Swedish Defence University, Visiting Professor UHI).
The conference will be hosted online via MS Teams. Papers from postgraduate researchers and ECRs are particularly welcome. 

Please contact the conference team (remra@uhi.ac.uk) by 21 February 2025 to register your interest. If you would like to give a paper, please send a provisional title and short abstract (c.200 words).  We are looking forward to hearing from you! 
 
The conference team: 
Mark Elliott (Highland Theological College, UHI), Jen Harland Archaeology Institute, UHI),Andrew Lind (Institute for Northern Studies, UHI), Kathrin Zickermann (Centre for History, UHI)

In the bottom right-hand corner there is the logo of UHI.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This is cool - we are part funding an excavation in Orkney of a large Atlantic Roundhouse (broch) and associated structures from various phases through the Iron Age and Norse period. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2481074...
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Dig It: How Orkney’s archaeology is stealing the show on the small screen
Three archaeological digs in Orkney – Swandro in Rousay, Blomuir tomb in Holm, and The Cairns in South Ronaldsay – have captured slots in…
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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
CfP: This June @thinkuhi.bsky.social will be hosting the first REMRA online conference: Northern Narratives: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Early Modern Period in the North Atlantic and Baltic. Register your interest by 21 Feb.
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UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Contributions are invited (in various forms/media) to Islands Symposium - Island narratives of kinship, place, and the weather. 3-4 April 2025, at Ceòlas (South Uist) and online. DL for proposals 15 Jan. For further details, visit bit.ly/3DKqO3W
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Call for papers – Islands symposium
We invite contributions (in various forms/media) to a symposium which considers Islands as sites of geo-embodied knowledge mediated through experiential engagements with weather. Click here for Isl…
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David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
In 1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty envisaged a new, tertiary, Highland university embracing "all sciences, liberal disciplines, arts active and factive, mechanick trades, and whatever concernes either vertue or learning, practical or theoretick". 372 years on... archive.org/details/work...
The Cromarty Firth, with Cromarty on the peninsula to the left.
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David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Very much enjoyed chairing our @thinkuhi.bsky.social meeting with @sgsah.bsky.social from Inverness today. Thanks to @clairesquires.bsky.social, @dranindyar.bsky.social, Monica Callaghan and all colleagues who participated, especially our outstanding SGSAH-funded PGR students.
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David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Dornoch Beach. No @uhihistory.bsky.social team sledging down this hill on this occasion, @karlykehoe.bsky.social
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David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Hello. I've arrived belatedly in/on Bluesky. Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues here.
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