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Rebecca Olds @rebeccaolds.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Calling all historical fashion students, costume makers and re-enactors! I am delighted to announce a new series of 18th Century Gown-Making Workshops in Scotland next spring. Please spread the news... and start stitching those undergarments! 😉 www.timesmith.co.uk/scotland-wor...

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Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Still spaces for articles for the 2026 "Review of Scottish Culture"! Please share, with submissions at: journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc/about/s...

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Submissions | Review of Scottish Culture

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

📜 Historians of Paris! Huge huge long shot 📜 Is anyone at the Archives Nationales main site at any point in the next few weeks, & willing & able to take a few photographs of documents? Happy to pay for your time, whatever you can spare – pls DM me

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Gandalf's Magical Archive Moments

ALT: Gandalf's Magical Archive Moments

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Just a quick reminder that a UHI Institute for Northern Studies and Perth Museum Public Series Seminar is approaching fast on 22nd April 2026. tinyurl.com/5abzbc98

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Workers restoring St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, found a box of bones, believed to be those of the saint, concealed within a pillar #OTD in 1919. In 2025, the pine box was carbon-dated to a period contemporary with the 12thC earl of Orkney's martyrdom. 📸Orkney Library & Archive #medievalsky

The skull and bones arrayed on a cloth before the open reliquary box.

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Help with #Latin #Palaeography please! It's a 1518 account for a Corpus Christi procession with a sum interspersed. What is the Latin contraction after Su[m]m[a] and before 'xxxviij s'? It seems to start 'pri', as used throughout on 'price', etc. The other loop is not part of the 'p' in pakthreid.

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Lynn Abrams @lynncabrams.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Pleased to see our article published in TEXTILE which discusses practice-based research on modern hand knitting drawing on volunteers skills. Huge thanks to all the volunteers and to the ‘Fleece to Fashion’ team at University of Glasgow eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Re-Creating Historic Modern Hand Knitting: Working with a Community of Practice

This article explores the benefits of academic collaboration with the community of practice. It employs experimental history methodology, a collaboration between historians, curators and volunteer ...

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Just a reminder to all co-editors that there will be not transcription-checking session this week, but we will resume next week (24th) as usual.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

'Kirkwall Fair.' (1888) Although Arthur Melville was not regarded as one of the Glasgow Boys, he was seen by them to be a kindred spirit. A year after painting this work on Orkney, he left Edinburgh and settled in London, although he often returned to Scotland to paint.

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Very excited to have the first of our online meetings with some of the co-editors of the Kirkwall Tailors Project tonight! We'll start working our way through, word-by-word, glyph-by-glyph, checking the transcription with as many eyes as possible. [London Museum c.1780 'Interior of a Tailor's Shop']

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Help with #medieval #palaeography please! A 1497 purchase of a mort cloth by the Edinburgh Hammermen included three score ‘so[ri]nis’? Soriws? Note the ‘ri’ carrot glyph as in ‘w[ri]ttin’ several lines above.

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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

1/2 A key part of a tailor’s work was ironing fabric, as seen by ‘goose irons’ in Tailors’ arms across Scotland. But what did they do their ironing on? Images: Pencaitland tailor's stone; Dutch iron; Detail from van Brekelenkam, ‘The Tailor’s Workshop’ (c.1661), Rijksmuseum, NL, Public Domain.

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Jenn Scott @jennscott1485.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Interested in men's clothing in late Medieval Scotland ? Come and hear me talk on Monday 3 November at Augustine United Church, Edinburgh

A poster advertising my talk on Monday 3 November for the Costume Society of Scotland about late medieval men's clothing in Scotland

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dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Made a site for exploring Bob Henery's transcription of Blaeu's 1654 Atlas of Scotland. You can browse, search and filter 28,394 features across 47 maps: dgplacenames.github.io/blaeu/

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

14 Oct 1559: Adam Bothwell having been papally provided as bishop of #Orkney is consecrated #otd (British Armorial Bindings © University of Toronto). He later conducted the marriage of Mary Queen of #Scots to the Earl of Bothwell & crowned James VI.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Woman sewing, c. 1650-55 Attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (British Museum)

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Dr Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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/book-shaping...

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Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

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Scottish Council on Archives @scotsarchives.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

SCOTLAND’S ARCHIVES AND RECORDS: CELEBRATING SUCCESS SCA is excited to open bookings for its next annual conference on Thursday 20th November in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Find out more and book via: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/sca-a...

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SCA ANNUAL CONFERENCE OPEN FOR BOOKINGS! - Scottish Council on Archives

01 October 2025

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Tudor Times @thetudortimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The final talk in the second of Royal Marriages Summit series bit.ly/4lifqMO will be delivered by Dr Michael Pearce who will be discussing the marriage of James V of Scotland to Marie of Guise – an important part of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France.

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

So I bought an old pitcher, and discover two authentic storage options; suspended, or upside-down on a shelf, from the 'Augsburger Klebealbum', heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/view...

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

(1/2) The inventory of one of our Kirkwall tailors in 1650: inter alia, 3 kistis; a pint stoup; a chair; a furnished bed; lint & woollen spinning wheels; silk; French ribbons; cloth, including buckram; papers of pins; thimbles and lots of buttons… #KirkwallTailorsProject

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Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

#palaeography help please! Is this an ampersand squeezed it with the ‘||’ insertion mark? ‘& ane’?

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Tailor’s ‘goose’ iron from Gouda, Netherlands.

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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Catz academics in print: 'The Mechanics of Biological Materials' co-ed by Prof. John Morton (1968, Engrng), 'Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social (2014, English) & a chapter in 'Public Law & the UK Supreme Court' by @profmarkelliott.bsky.social (1999)

Cover designs for 'The Mechanics of Biological Materials, ' Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' and 'Public Law and the UK Supreme Court'

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

What can petitions to magistrates from London apprentices tell us about gendered violence in #EarlyModern England? New addition from Hilary Taylor to the #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

Screenshot of the first page of Hilary Taylor, 'The gendered dynamics of violence in English apprenticeship: apprentices’ petitions to the Middlesex and Westminster Sessions, c. 1690–1830'

Abstract: This article offers the first systematic analysis of the role that violence played in the management of apprentices, and the gendered dynamics of violence in English apprenticeship more broadly. It does so through an examination of 195 petitions that apprentices or their supporters submitted to the Middlesex and Westminster Sessions, which sought the cancellation of their indentures on grounds of ‘immoderate correction’. It offers a quantitative overview of the surviving petitions, examining the proportion that featured allegations of violence, the terms and level of detail in which violence was described, and its relationship to apprentices’ other stated grievances. It moves on to reconstruct the factors that could prompt masters and mistresses to mete out correction (as well as their commentaries on their perceived right to do so) and the tactics that petitioners used in crafting their complaints to legal authorities. Although female apprentices complained about violence at a disproportionate rate to their male peers, the material considered here suggests that their petitions did so in comparatively formulaic and restricted terms. The final section considers what implications this might have for our understandings of violence, gender and apprenticeship, and a genre of document – the petition – that provides access to these issues.

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Interesting items in this Kirkwall tailor's 1650 inventory: Silk, French thread and bolts of 'camelhair' cloth! What is the last word in the entry though? #palaeography #skystorians

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

... and the archives of the Secretary of the 1889 Tailors' Strike Committee are held here! Lithuania-born William Wess emigrated to London in 1880, aged 20, & quickly became a central figure in radical politics in the capital, co-founding/organising trade unions, political & educational groups... 🧵

Leaflet for 'A great demonstration of tailors' in Hyde Park on 29 September 1889, as part of the 'Great Strike of London Tailors', with speakers including William Morris, John Burns, Tom Mann and James Tochatti. From the archives of William Wess; document reference MSS.240W/3/4/9.

Poster issued by the Master Tailors' Protective and Trade Improvement Association for employers to put up in their premises. It confirms the hours of work as 8am to 8pm, with an hour for dinner between 1-2 and a half hour break for tea between 4.30-5pm. From the archives of William Wess; document reference MSS.240W/3/4/24.

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Tailors’ candlesticks, seventeenth century, as recorded in the PSAS ( @socantscot.bsky.social ). Note the larger depression for an oil lamp with candle sockets in the corners. journals.socantscot.org/index.php/ps...

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A copper-alloy pin found on archaeological excavations of an eighteenth-century Waggonway at Cockenzie. A common object for tailors like those of Kirkwall as well.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

#Skystorians, in the category of weird questions: I'm looking for primary & secondary sources on the social/cultural understanding or perception of worms and snails in the #EarlyModern period. (N.B. I'm not looking for how worms were classified "scientifically"). Does anyone have suggestions? 🗃️

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

NEW RESEARCH REPORT: The Wartime Orkney Trail leaflets project Read the report by Ian Collins FSAScot, who was awarded a Society grant to develop self-guided wartime trails exploring the rich archaeology left by 19th and 20th century military activity in Orkney: www.socantscot.org/.../the-wart...

Photo of a concrete radar ramp leading to a concrete WW2 bunker in a field

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

NEW RECORDINGS: Rhind Lectures 2025: Scotland's Place-Names Covering language, archaeology, the church and more, all six recordings from the Rhind Lectures 2025 with Dr Simon Taylor are now available on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Sponsored by Ordnance Survey

Old map with overlaid text: New Recordings

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Interested in reading all articles in the most recent 'Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland', our annual peer-reviewed journal of Scottish history and archaeology? Find out more about becoming a Fellow of the Society and apply before 30 September: www.socantscot.org/join/

Blue books piled on top of each other with gold text on them that reads 'Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland'

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Detail from the 1638 testament of Sibilla Garioch.

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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Eek today 😥 One chapter sent off to the editors. Two sets of proofs received. Another chapter begun and another two talks underway. Trying to squeeze all the research commitments into one day. Meanwhile I have various image requests & copyright clearances at different stages ... spinning plates!

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Gravestone of a Pencaitland Tailor from 1673. Note the symbols of the trade: the scissors and ‘goose’, or iron.

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Join us for our first 2025 public lecture in partnership with Perth Museum. Uncovering Scotland's Earliest Textiles ➕ 7pm - 8pm September 24th 2025 ➕ Admission £7.50/£5.00 ➕ Booking essential through the website below ➕ Location: Perth Museum, Scotland www.culturepk.org.uk/event/uncove...

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

One of the best sources for figuring out #palaeography conundrums in Scottish texts is the outstanding Dictionaries of the Scots Language (dsl.ac.uk). For example, some might not realise that 'tailor' once had the letter yogh (ȝ) in it: dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/t...

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Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: DOST :: tail3our

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