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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Call for Papers: 'Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference', @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, 28-30 June 2027, organised by @mckeever.bsky.social & team. Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2026. Details of financial support for PGRs to follow. tinyurl.com/yt2vj4x7

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Isaac Land @coastalhistory.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

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Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 14/09/2025

Recorded on 4 Sept 2025 – Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels” #C19th #romanticism www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvr...

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Dr Gerard McKeever - Scotch Novels

YouTube video by The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Huge congrats to the wonderful @cleoocy.bsky.social who passed her viva today with no corrections!

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Just watched There Will Be Blood for the first time in about ten years. Holy mackerel, what an unbelievable film. Had forgotten quite how unhinged Day-Lewis’s character is.

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Went on a holiday and it was totally awesome

A man smiling beside the road sign for Pont L’Évêque

A board with very nice Pont L’Évêque cheese on it.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I like the Pope, the Pope says nope

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Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The secrets are out! Great to see this years-long labour of love out in the world. The official publication date is June 28; available for pre-order on the OUP website now! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Call for Applications: Stephen Copley Research Award Deadline 1st June 2025 The BARS Executive Committee has established the bursaries in order to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500. More information and how to apply: www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Normalise writing a nice quick note to scholars literally every time you read and like their work. Our world is small and getting smaller. We need encouragement.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

3/3 Only at the very end of this rehearsal of the lore do we get to the real basis of the problems here:

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Email I received from a senior colleague at Berkeley this week opened ‘Greetings from the anarcho-neofascist hellscape!’ … thoughts are with everyone in the US 🙏

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Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A new Five Questions interview up on the BARS Blog (@bars.bsky.social) - @mckeever.bsky.social on his new monograph, Regional Romanticism: Literature and Southwest Scotland, c.1770–1830: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5944.

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Five Questions: Gerard McKeever on Regional Romanticism – BARS Blog

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Kate Ash-Irisarri @kateai.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It could be an April Fool but, apparently, it’s publication day for this wee book. Thanks to all at @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for bringing it into the world!

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.

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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜 thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...

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Full and Final Edition Now Available

News article - 24 February 2025

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“I have no doubt most of you feel that the on-going genocide is wrong, I likewise have no doubt each of you feel you did the best that you could (at the MLA, or elsewhere).” Please read @palumboliu.bsky.social’s open letter relinquishing his lifetime MLA membership. academeblog.org/2025/02/05/r...

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Resignation Letter from the Modern Language Association (David Palumbo-Liu)

POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH As readers are no doubt aware, the problem of undemocratic professional associations is coming more and more to the fore as members attempt to hold their scholarly and profe…

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’m collecting literary maps relating to Scotland for a thing. A few examples here. If anyone has suggestions for others, I’d love to hear them 🙏

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Spare a thought for the Burns scholar on Burns night, wincing in the corner with his precious little facts.

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Truly among the worst things about living in the British countryside is the regular encounters with aggressive dogs, off the lead, frequently with the owner nowhere in sight. When (if) owner appears, they invariably expect you to adopt a fondly understanding attitude to their terrifying pet.

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Does anyone know of book history/bibliographical work that imagines books as actors in the terms of actor-network theory?

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is convincing literary scholars that a 35-year-ish Romantic Period is somehow equivalent to the whole of other centuries, and like 1,000 years of medieval history.

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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Applications are now open for 2025-26 Fellowships at IASH, with 60 places available! Apply here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/application-... Senior/mid-career programmes close 28 Feb. Postdoctoral/early-career programmes close 25 April. See our Fellowship pages for details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowship-p...

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Application form | IASH

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This v interesting 1787 edition of Robert Burns’s poems has been brutally washed in solvent, probably by a lateC19 collector. This results in super clean pages but also a kind of cancelled, ghost marginalia that has been almost washed away. It’s like the book has repressed memories of a former life

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

30 years old this year. Still the most important Scottish novel since Lanark.

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

So the word ‘month’ is essentially ‘moonth’, a lunar cycle. How did I never notice that before?

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

7 December #adventgold The bird pin from the Galloway Hoard had to be part of this! Dated 500-900AD it was found with the rest of the hoard in 2014 www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...

Gold pin, with the top part in the shape of a bird. The neck and wings have decoration and the eyes are blue. Photographed against a black background. National Museums Scotland.

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The GCSE Natural History will see a massive enrichment of kid's love & understanding of nature, & government won't see it through. All designed, ready to go, decades in the making, now facing inertia. Poor Mary Colwell, the genius behind whole thing (& no Tory) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Natural history GCSE on hold as qualification seen as ‘Tory initiative’, claims campaigner

New GCSE was announced under previous government in 2022 but now ‘sitting in limbo’, says Mary Colwell, one of its architects

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If you are an academic writing on any aspect or period of Scottish Literature, please consider submitting an article to the peer-reviewed journal SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW. Published twice a year by @scotlit.bsky.social, the journal is edited by me and the very excellent @rhonabrown.bsky.social

The cover of Scottish Literary Review, a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of Scottish Literature.

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My new book is out in the world! It advocates a new, regional way of thinking about Scottish literature and Romanticism. It’s been a labour of love that’s seen me through two babies and a global pandemic, can’t wait to hear what people take from it 🙏 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A scholarly book titled ‘Regional Romanticism’ standing on a bookshelf.

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

The world outside is shit but my 6yo daughter is in a deep toilet humour phase and it turns out I’ve been waiting 30years for this. Absolutely loving it.

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Very difficult at the moment to advise bright PhD students and postdocs who are determined on UK academia. What do you say? There’s no job market! The sector looks set to shrink, possibly dramatically.

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

I’ve got my 4th years reading a whole monthly issue of Blackwood’s Mag this week (June 1820 to be specific). Very interested to hear what they make of it. We’ll see how it goes …

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Why is learning languages so bloody difficult? Am I missing a trick somehow? Tips and suggestions gratefully received … No statement of the obvious can possibly patronize me!

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Am teaching Mansfield Park for the first time in ages this semester … What an astonishing creation Mrs Norris is. Surely in the literary pantheon of villains.

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

The fascinating EDITION lecture given by Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social in Edinburgh last month on ‘Book Collecting in the Age of Slavery’ is now available online here: edition.ed.ac.uk/events/

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Met an extraordinary group of people yesterday to begin a new big collaborative project on ‘Scotland’s Regional Condition’. Thanks to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social for hosting us!

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Fabulous launch last week of the new phase of History of the Book at Uni of Edinburgh (edition.ed.ac.uk) with a workshop feat. disbound Shakespeare First Folio plays with performance annotation, then lecture on ‘Book Collecting in the Age of Slavery’ from @oldfortunatus.bsky.social

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Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

so great to have @oldfortunatus.bsky.social join us in Edinburgh last week for the launch of EDITION with a 1-2 combo of an Expert Workshop & Inaugural Lecture on her initial work on "Book Collecting in the Age of Slavery" EDITION high-five to @mckeever.bsky.social ! edition.ed.ac.uk

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

In the archives with my ‘Scotland and the Supernatural’ students today. Highlight was this 1st edition of James VI’s Daemonologie (1597), which quite a lot of them already knew as Shakespeare’s source for Scottish witches and necromancy in Macbeth.

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Dug out some early Shakespeare quartos for a thing recently. They’re really nice

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Randomly started watching the Costner/Rickman Robin Hood last night and there, surreally imagined somewhere on the route between Dover and Sherwood, it was … 💔

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