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Roslyn Potter

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Research Associate at Newcastle University 📖 early modern manuscripts, women’s writing and song culture 📚 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻 bio.site/roslynpotter

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Nicole Maceira Cumming @nicolemaceira.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 @joshuarushton8.bsky.social and I are holding an online colloquium 'Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World' on 30 Sept 2026 🌳 🌊 ⛪ 🐄 Deadline for submissions 1 September.
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Calling archival researchers working in any era! I'm seeking your stories of 'archival echoes'. These could be: ✅ the (re)discovery of a rare or once-lost manuscript 🗑️ a valuable text recovered from a bin or skip 🔥 a story of irreversible destruction (burning, etc.)
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Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern
The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2027/Volume 22.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Generations.
In keeping with the Journal’s tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 22.1, we invite contributions on **women and generations in the early modern world**. Papers might include examinations of intergenerational relationships among and between women, how gender shapes the expression of generational knowledge and status, how women preserve and protect the generations ahead of and behind them, how representations of generations are gendered, etc. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world. 
At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum.
Submissions are due October 1, 2026 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed. 
If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu.
Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about.
See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#CfP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750. Oxford, June 18-19, 2026 Abstracts by Feb 28 '26. Featuring a quintessential quartet of keynotes: @rhetorician.bsky.social, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social, & Sue Wiseman www.rensoc.org.uk/event/clio-r... #SRS_Sponsored
Clio Reframed aims to explore historical writing and historiography produced by women between the sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, asking why, when and to what purpose and effect women chose different historical subjects as their focus; to situate these texts within their social, religious, political, and textual production contexts, with the aim of expanding our critical understanding of historical writing that often elides the participation of women; and to challenge narratives that homogenize women’s interests in history and their writing strategies. It proposes that women’s historical writing is not an essentially gendered or isolated space in which individual contributions and agendas are uniform. Rather, women’s historical writing is diverse, prevalent, and characterized by relational frameworks and networks, involving other writers, patrons, stationers, and readers.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
📢JOYCE YOUINGS LECTURE 2025-26 IS NEXT WEEK📢 Prof. Jane Whittle: Work & gender, status & power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England 🗓️ 28 January, 3pm, followed by drinks reception 📍 Uni of Exeter & Zoom 🗃️ All welcome, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joyce-...
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The Joyce Youings Memorial Lecture 2025-6: Professor Jane Whittle
Work and gender, status and power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England.
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I hear it's National Handwriting Day! My research relies on those individuals who spent most of their days with a pen in their hand and, presumably, ink all over their fingers. Thanks to the neat letters, the messy annotations, the lazy inkblots, the cursory crossses, and all of the doodles. 🪶
A page showing a handwritten recipe 'For the eyes that are hot' from the seventeenth-century recipe book belonging to Mary Harrison, held in Glasgow University's Special Collections (MS Ferguson 61). The original recipe has been annotated by different hands adding instructions and opinions.
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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚨Call for Papers🚨 We are thrilled to issue a call for papers for our annual conference on 28th March 2026 We'd love to hear about the amazing sources you are using and can't wait to spend the day talking all things Scottish History 💙 Submit a proposal: scottishhistorysociety.com/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers: ‘The Sources of Scottish History’, SHS Conference 2026
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
For any PhD students working in Medical Humanities, check out the Medical Humanities summer school from @durhamimh.bsky.social medhumsplatform.org/medical-huma...
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Medical Humanities International PhD Summer School 2026
The Medical Humanities International Summer School is open for applications from PhD students.
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
If peace is your aim this Hogmanay then I invite you to join me on NTS.live from 8pm for ‘vespers’ – a blend of choral music from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries 🕊️
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
A cough remedy to try this winter? Locally sourced, of course!
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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland. scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...
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SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived! Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
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The Scottish History Society
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I'll be on NTS radio on Saturday at 10am with a mix inspired by the folklore, the roots of activism 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 www.nts.live
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🎶 I wrote a piece on 'Songs and Fancies', Scotland's earliest printed music book. Many thanks to Jane Petteree over at Soundyngs blog for hosting!
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Songs and Fancies: Aberdonian music-making in the 17th Century
Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions also exist from e.g. the NLS). This post welcomes guest-author Roslyn Potter, who is …
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Very cool opportunity from @thenightwith.bsky.social for aspiring and enthusiastic sound engineers 🎻🎶 thenightwith.com/2025/07/29/t...
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Trainee Sound Engineering 2025 | The Night With
Applications are now open for The Night With…’s pioneering one year scheme to train and nurture the next generation of sound engineers specialising in class ...
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 13/06/2025
“Whether buried in the blackhouses of Lewis or the shuttered shipyards of Glasgow, Scotland’s mysteries speak to specific legacies which have shaped the land- & cityscapes that house its crimes” THE BOTTLE IMP goes on the trail of Scottish crime writing… 1/8 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/help...
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Help! Murder! Polis! - The Bottle Imp
Detective works were once seen as London’s domain – imperial in tone and centrally composed, unfolding in gentleman’s clubs and smoky drawing rooms. Yet long before fictional fact-finders patrolled Ba...
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I am happy with this gift ☕️🍴👻
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Hands down one of my favourite conferences ever! Congratulations to @misswalsingham.bsky.social and the FEATHERS team for such an excellent project and for showing us all such a good time in a beautiful place. I’m left feeling inspired and uplifted – thanks to all involved!
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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A braw post doc with the IASH and NMS in Edinburgh, examining the connections between Poland, Scandinavia or the Netherlands. Applications need to be in by the 25th April 2025. #c18 #Skystorians #earlymodern #17thc #JacobiteStudies #Scottishhistory
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It's hard to believe that I completed my MPhil three years ago now. For reasons I can't remember, I opted to have it embargoed...but today, it's lifted! If anyone is interested in the literary legacy of the first secular song book printed in Scotland (1662) then this is your lucky day! 🎶
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John Forbes’s Songs and Fancies and its literary legacy - Enlighten Theses
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Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The Scottish History Society 2025 Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM is on Saturday 29th March! We had a fantastic time last year hearing about research so join us for a great day of papers and discussion. Free to members, £5 non-members. www.tickettailor.com/events/scott...
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Select tickets – Scottish History Society 2025 Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM – Old Medical School, Teviot Place, University of Edinburgh
‘The Sources of Scottish History’ University of Edinburgh 29 March 2025 All events will take place in the University of Edinbur...
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25/01/2025
Now this big westerly’s blown itself out, let’s drive to the storm beach… —Kathleen Jamie, “The Beach” Published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012 www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
The Beach
by Kathleen Jamie

Now this big westerly's
blown itself out,
let's drive to the storm beach.

A few brave souls
will be there already,
eyeing the driftwood,

the heaps of frayed
blue polyprop rope,
cut loose, thrown back at us –

What a species –
still working the same
curved bay, all of us

hoping for the marvellous,
all hankering for a changed life.
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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🌟Discover and Follow Women’s History Scotland! 🌟 Since 1995, we've connected people passionate about women’s and gender history in Scotland. We host events, provide teaching resources, and offer prizes and bursaries to promote diverse voices. womenshistoryscotland.org #WomensHistory
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Women's History Scotland – Promoting study and research in women's and gender history in Scotland
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Robert @clatchardcraig.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The Broons story for the Hogmanay of 1944 is a masterpiece of Scots art which surpasses anything by Raeburn, Naysmith or the Colourists. This is a hill that I will die upon.
It is Hogmanay in 1944. Granpaw receives a telegram in the close of 10 Glebe Street. Chaos ensues with the Broons quarrelling about who their first foot should be. The rival first foots form a queue at the Broons' door. Then, Granpaw appears with Hen and Joe, who have been given leave from the army. He intercepted a telegram, mind? A final, sublimely couthy, ensemble frame shows the family and their friends celebrating. *moist eyes*
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Tune in this evening to www.nts.live at 9pm to spice up your Daft Days with a neoclassicism/strum and drang/baroque mix 🎻🎶
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
If you ever thought that searching a library catalogue is complicated, be reminded: this is how a book (in manuscript or print) in octavo with five pages or more and less than ten was categorized in a sixteenth-century European collection (from Hernando Colón). A 🧵 for #earlymodern #bookhistory
You see 5 symbols used by Hernando Colón in his library catalogue. The images of this thread are from J.M. Pérez Fernández / E. Wilson-Lee: Hernando Colón's New World of Books" (2021).
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
It was such a privilege to present a paper at ‘Scotland’s Manuscripts: Making and Finding’ in Edinburgh last week. Many thanks so much to the team for their hard work in organising and delivering such a brilliant conference! 📜
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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
100+ archives & library special collections accounts have now joined Bluesky! Welcome to @britrecs.bsky.social @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social @archives76.bsky.social & catch up with more new arrivals in our starter pack at go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2
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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
CONFERENCE: SRS 11th Biennial Conference | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents memorients.com/events/confe...
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CONFERENCE: SRS 11th Biennial Conference | MEMOs
The University of Bristol is delighted to welcome the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference back to Bristol in July 2025.
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Hi all, I've made a starter park of historians of the body - please shout if you'd like to be added/removed. I was in a rush so haven't added everyone yet! go.bsky.app/T5KnJ51 🗃️
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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🚨 #Skystorians: @cambridgeup.bsky.social, publisher of 'Renaissance Quarterly', has "temporarily enabled free access to all articles published since the 1st of January 2023; this will continue for all new articles published through the 31st of December this year" 🗃️ #EarlyModern shorturl.at/BOw6L
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Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Renaissance Quarterly - Barbara Fuchs, Carina L. Johnson, Brian J. Maxson, John R. Decker
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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Recent updates, new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, prizes, and much much more... It's December's EMoDiR Newsletter! Compiled by @martinamampieri.bsky.social and Francesco Quatrini, you can find it here: www.academia.edu/125940588/EM... #EarlyModern #skystorians
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Chuffed to have a piece (🥪) amongst great company in the latest issue of The Bottle Imp. Give it a read if you’re *hungry* for food and poetry in medieval and early modern Scotland 🍓🍰🍎🥕🍯 (apologies, food puns are too tempting)
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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Call for submissions! *Embodied Knowledge & Making Texts: A Handbook* Please spread the word to academics & practitioners - @georginaemw.bsky.social and I have been overwhelmed and delighted by the response so far. It's going to be great! www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...
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Call for submissions — Thin Ice Press
Call for contributors! We’re looking for craftspeople and academics to be part of an exciting volume on embodied knowledge and making texts.
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Epistolary Culture in Early Modern Scotland Research Network @epistcult.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Find out more about our new research network that hopes to bring together people who work with letters in all their various guises - from across all disciplines - at our website here: epistolaryculture.wordpress.com Feel free to repost!
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Epistolary Culture in Early Modern Scotland
Epistolary Culture in Early Modern Scotland
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St Andrews Early Modern PG Workshop @staemworkshop.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
TONIGHT - Scottish Rebellions in Scotland? Food, Sex, and Liturgical Calendars? All this and more at the St A EM PG Workshop! Hybrid as usual - DM FOR LINK
Workshop poster for two talks, one about Spanish perspectives on Scottish rebellions, the other about the impact of the liturgical calendar on the conception of seasonality in the early modern period. Event takes place in person or online, on 25 November at 5.15pm
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I found an old half-bottle of dusty supermarket-brand champagne which I will drink this evening but don’t have any real occasion to…please post any and all good news below to justify my Saturday indulgence!
A photo of a jumper-clad arm holding a half bottle of Waitrose champagne against a backdrop of a wooden kitchen counter. Assorted kitchen detritus surrounds.
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Hello fellow historians of medicine, science and technology, I made a #histstm feed. Post to it simply by adding the #histstm #histsci #histmed #histtech hashtags, add the feed here bsky.app/profile/did:... And please help spread the word 🙏
Historical image of urine analysis spectrum
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This looks stunning all over
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Joey Crozier @joeycrozier.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello #skystorians 👋 good to see so many here! I’ll leave the annual Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500 - 1850 #CfP here for folks who are interested. Come and join us in Aberystwyth, 12 - 13 June 2025. Co-organised with @heathernicholas.bsky.social @rharman.bsky.social
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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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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Excited to present “Documenting Ottoman Plants: The Unseen Work of the Translator” at the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London (on Zoom). 🗓️Thursday, 21 November 🕕 6 PM (GMT) Looking forward!
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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hello new folks! Thanks for all the follows. I’ll hopefully have some nice early modern stuff to share in the next few days but plz try to contain your excitement.
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq
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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
go.bsky.app/43xNSFh Help me add more Scottish history people - reply to be added.
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Allan Kennedy @allankennedy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Briefly dipping my toe back into social medial to re-up this Call for Contributions for a projected edited collection on 'Alcohol in Early Modern Scotland'. Get in touch if you've got some research you'd like to share!
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Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Here’s a provisional clanjamfry of scholars, novelists, bodies and poets involved in Scottish literature and present on Bluesky. Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/3EEXPcA
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