Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Huge congrats to the wonderful @cleoocy.bsky.social who passed her viva today with no corrections! 1242 0
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I’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 🙏 164217 0
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 08/01/2025This 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 0318 0
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 20/12/202430 years old this year. Still the most important Scottish novel since Lanark. 3242 0
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 15/11/2024My 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... 3070790 0
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 20/02/2024Fabulous 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 0180 0
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 06/02/2024I like to think it’s got a bit of a Necromancy of Thay vibe with that vellum binding 030 0
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 06/02/2024In 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. 2399 0
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 26/11/2023Dug out some early Shakespeare quartos for a thing recently. They’re really nice 080 0
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 19/11/2023Randomly started watching the Costner/Rickman Robin Hood last night and there, surreally imagined somewhere on the route between Dover and Sherwood, it was … 💔 2211 0
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 08/11/2023Happy 400th birthday to Shakespeare’s First Folio! Have been in special collections today with this guy instead, 3x rarer NOT THAT IT’S A COMPETITION 1224 0
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 29/09/2023I’m a bit late to the party but this is so so good #amreading 3512 0
