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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Our publications for 2025-2026! This year we have two (!) volumes, focussed on different islands: Arran (Arran Rentals, 1576-1780: accounts & testaments) and Australia (Life & Adventures of G. R. Nicoll, 1824-1901: travel journal of a Scottish shipwright/blockmaker) www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 20h

In a list of 'dead, absent and poor' hammermen is an entry for one who went off to fight in the Dutch wars (c.1575). He is described as 'called candy to the wars' (cannon fodder?). Has anyone come across this phrase before? @profmurdoch.bsky.social @aberjack.bsky.social @weegiegraeme.bsky.social

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📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library @leightonlibrary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Visit Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library, Scotland’s oldest purpose-built independent library. 📅 Open Monday-Saturday 🕚 11am-4pm 🆓 Free admission (donations invited) #Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Help with #palaeography please! What is the contraction here? It is from a court case involving a heated argument in a craft meeting: '...and did that lay in him to have movit tham to [cu[ ]t] upoun him for his invasion gif that thaj had nocht bene better myndit...'

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Palaeography bat-signal! I am currently looking after a very old copy (c. 1690?) of the Book of Common Prayer. Inside one flyleaf is this block of what looks like shorthand. Can anyone tell me anything about it, even at the level of what shorthand system it might be?

A block of symbols looking a bit like shorthand. That's all I can tell you; sorry.

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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This looks fantastic: 👇

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Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Help with #Latin #Palaeography please! What is the brevigraph beginning with 's_ss'? 's[ub]s[crip]s[it]' perhaps? 'Villmus Bannatyne capellanus et notarius publicus manu sua subscripsit VB'

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Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Help with #palaeography please! What is the word after for? It relates to a swasch, or drum, and was paid jointly between Hammermen and the Masons and Wrights: 'Item for [br aris?] to our awin squasche xxd our part xd'

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Friday night paleography puzzle for y'all! (I know how to live!) #earlymodern 🗃️ ? the Revelation ? 2.versse

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

all I confidently have here is "1604, at Chesterton" if anyone wants to have a crack at this? #earlymodern paleography puzzle of the day! 🗃️

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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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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1722 Waggonway Project @1722waggonway.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Did you know that you can view the 3D model of our Cockenzie Harbour Salt Pan excavation on Sketchfab? Check it out here👇 skfb.ly/oLAuy

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Cockenzie Harbour Salt Pan - 3D model by 1722waggonway

Excavated September 2023 - Cockenzie Harbour Salt Pan - 3D model by 1722waggonway

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1722 Waggonway Project @1722waggonway.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

A selection of our past volumes! Each year the current volume is sent out to members. To join or to find details of submitting your own manuscript for consideration, go to: www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

28 May 1573, during the surrender of Edinburgh Castle, the goldsmith James Mosman returned some jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots, to William Kirkcaldy, who 'put thame in ane oppin coffer standand in the chalmer quhair he then usit to ly'

National Records of Scotland E35/11, 11 July 1573.

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Another of our volumes, which members receive each year. To join, see the details on our website: www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The Scottish Record Society has published lists, indices and critical editions of archival sources since 1897. Our back catalogue has many titles, and some splendid volumes coming soon! For details of past volumes, or to join the SRS, see our website: www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/

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Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

#palaeography help please! I’m seeing ‘knokvarkm[ak]ar’ as in clockwork maker. The Ks are clear on the page - both forms found in other names, as is the terminal r (see Freser in first few entries, but the ‘va/wa’ part worries me. Any thoughts?

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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

@natlibscot.bsky.social recently acquired an important #EstherInglis manuscript that was in private hands - it's one of her most beautiful with dedication to Sir Thomas Wotton done unusually in gold lettering on red background. Argumenta in Librum Geneseos 1606.

Detail of page with lettre frizée writing beneath strawberry flower and fruit. NLS

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Don’t forget to apply by tomorrow! We’re funding research into #palaeography teaching in Scotland! See the job spec here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA145/s...

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South Wales Record Society @swalesrecordsoc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

May the 4th may be Star Wars Day - but according to John Gwin of Llangwm it was one of the fortunate critical days, Business begun on 4 May would go well, children born on 4 May would never be poor. More on his Commonplace Book at www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/35.htm

Cover of John Gwin's Commonplace book. Cover image shows medieval rood screen and modern reading desk in a church.

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Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Our final JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop for the Spring 2026 term is on Tue, 5 May! We'll be joined by @alannamactavish.bsky.social, who will be updating us on her doctoral research at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social re: Jacobite education in the university curriculum. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

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South Wales Record Society @swalesrecordsoc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Really looking forward to launching this - Aberystwyth Arts Centre at 2pm on Saturday 6 June. Come and learn more about the history of this famous Picturesque landscaped estate.

Cover of book ‘THIS PRINCELY HABITATION’
THE HAFOD ESTATE UNDER THE 4TH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE,
1832–1846: image is Hafod House with woods and mountains in background

Back cover of book on the Hafod estate.
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Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle (1785–1851), of Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, bought the Hafod estate in Ceredigion in 1832. Hafod had achieved its fame under the Welsh antiquarian and bibliophile Thomas Johnes (1748–1816), who developed its landscape to picturesque principles and made it a seat of private learning. Newcastle’s ownership of Hafod from 1832 1846, and his delight in its possibilities, is recorded in the extensive personal diaries which he maintained during the last three decades of his life. This edition publishes, for the first time, all the entries relating to Newcastle’s ownership of Hafod and his comments on the people and places that he encountered on his wider travels in Wales. The diaries offer fascinating insights into Newcastle’s motivations for purchasing and improving Hafod, his own devotion to picturesque principles and his attempts to make the estate well-managed and financially viable. Newcastle considered himself to be an adopted Welshman and immersed himself in aspects of Welsh life and culture at a time when the area was being opened to tourists. He also gave encouragement to these efforts, both through investing in new hotel facilities at Devil’s Bridge and by actively promoting improvements at Aberystwyth, particularly its harbour facilities and urban infrastructure. ...
Dr Richard A Gaunt is Associate Professor in British History at the University of Nottingham where he has worked since 2000. A historian of British politics, culture and society in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century, he has published widely on the politics and personalities of the period, including three related volumes of Newcastle’s diaries. Dr Gaunt is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of London and is currently the co-editor of the journal Parliamentary History and of the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series.

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Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

And with colours inverted...

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Aaron Allen @mchapelproject.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Help with #palaeography please! ‘S[ummon]d[s] of Removeing / Geo: Ramsay / [The?] / [beisteret?]’

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Help please! What should be 'James Johnesoun' looks decidedly like 'James Hohnesoun'? It is his 'upsat', or setting up payment, so it is probably some kind of phonetic rendering of Johnesoun (later deacon of the Hammermen Inc.), but does everyone else see 'Hohnesoun' here? #palaeography

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South Wales Record Society @swalesrecordsoc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Today's #Archive30 is #ArchiveFashion - and by coincidence on this day in 1636 Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd paid 6s for 2 pairs of shoes, 9s. 6d. for a pair of boots and a whole pound for 4 dozen points. More on his fascinating account books at www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/19.htm

Cover of 'Family and Society in Early Stuart Glamorgan: the Household Accounts of Sir Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd, c. 1565-1641': cover image of portrait of elderly man in cap and ruff, grey hair, vandyke moustache and beard, holding a staff.

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The SRS is a scholarly publishing society, taking transcriptions of Scottish manuscript records and publishing them to disseminate them around the world. Each year a new volume comes out, with copies sent to members. Why not join us? www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A selection of our past volumes! Each year the latest volume is sent out to members. To join, to buy back volumes, or to find details of submitting your own manuscript for consideration, go to: www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Here's a great engine of early modern society, in culture, in trade, in religion and in politics. A goose quill pen c. 1590 - c. 1596 (Rijksmuseum)

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UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

2 people consulting a printed volume on a book cushion

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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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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Today's #PalaeographyChallenge! Help with these 3 words would be much appreciated. TIA.

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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

So delighted to receive copies of our new book! Coming in at almost 380 pages, it has ten super chapters, contains transcriptions & translations of key 15th C documents & has some v. useful maps courtesy of my co-editor, Giovanna Guidicini. Thank you @jillharrison1.bsky.social & all involved! ✨📖

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

New publications for 2025-2026! This year we have two (!) volumes, focussed on different islands: Arran (Arran Rentals, 1576-1780: accounts & testaments) and Australia (Life & Adventures of G. R. Nicoll, 1824-1901: travel journal of a Scottish shipwright/blockmaker) www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

East Jersey Bound: From Scotland to America in the 1680s SHS and @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social are thrilled to announce a free, online event with Derrick Johnstone on Wednesday 11 Feb from 17:30 (UK) Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi... scottishhistorysociety.com/east-jersey-...

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East Jersey Bound: From Scotland to America in the 1680s

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

As always, a fascinating podcast episode with Dendrochronoligist Dr. Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social on her work with Scottish woodlands and historic timber buildings podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

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[HBP#22] - Coralie Mills - Discovering Scotland's Past with Dendrochronology

Podcast Episode · Heritage Buildings Podcast · 18/11/2025 · 1h 18m

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