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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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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Thank you Guy! And Merry Christmas to you as well!

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Read that more carefully! Sounds like a jewel in the making!

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Well if it’s too repetitive we can just take a look at it in the new year! Thanks for working on it though!

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Fantastic - some of the published literature is a good source for surnames as well when Black doesn’t list it. Let me know if you get stuck.

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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

Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

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

2/2 Here we see a ‘Tailor’s Board’ from an old house in Victoria Street, Kirkwall. This early ironing board is 550mm in length and 160mm wide, with five circular indentations. Courtesy of Orkney Museum, Object No. OM-18703, Accession number 1977.016.

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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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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Amazing for both! Where is the painting from?

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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

(2/2) But – it appears our Kirkwall tailor also was selling (?) a golf club and two balls; a ream of paper; and books: 6 copies of Proverbs and 2 copies of the Psalms. His inventory was worth over £102 Scots. #KirkwallTailorsProject

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

This would be fantastic for displaying the medieval mining landscapes at Newbattle Abbey or the Heugh at Tranent… FAO @1722waggonway.bsky.social

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

Well done Dr Pearce! That’s it! Thank you again!

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