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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Now that @bsky.app have pinned tweets, high time for self-promotion of book that came out earlier this year w/Elodie Peyrol, Agnes Delahaye, and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke from @manchesterup.bsky.social : manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167330/

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Manchester University Press - Agents of European overseas empires

Agents of European overseas empires - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Agents of European overseas empires by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Finally, I really feel for my students. The OU courses at Dundee provided people with working commitments and disabilities an alternate pathway into Higher Education. I had a similar path into HE, starting at foundational courses after flunking my Highers. Those paths are increasingly disappearing.

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Well, that’s that. After a mere three years in UK HE, I’ve finally lost my last job - a casual zero hours (and for the last year) contract-less job working at the University of Dundee providing OU online courses. I’d like to say I’m surprised but the writing has been on the wall for some time #17thc

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The peerless Galt authored Ringan Gilhaize which features the lives of three Scottish Protestants from the Reformation to the Revolution. The concluding chapters take place during the Highland War (1689-1691) and features the Battle of Killiecrankie as its climax. A phenomenal historical novel!

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Highlanders Conference 1725-2025 @highlanderscon1725.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

It's now just one week until our Call for Papers closes - have you got your abstract in? We welcome online and in-person papers relating to the Highlands - or Highlanders - and Britain since 1725. Please send your abstract (150-300 words) to highlandsconference@gmail.com by 5th May!

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Happy Konigsdag tae all my Dutch followers! Wish I was there, mibbe next year! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧡🇳🇱

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

My barber has been exponentially improved by this new member of staff

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Been a busy month thus far, working away on another chapter and the usual marking but also secured two job interviews for the end of the month (outwith academia) and been working on a really exciting postdoc fellowship application. It’s on the diaspora and got some big Scots-Dutch elements, so 🤞

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Does anyone have a successful AHRC Catalyst Bid application they might be willing to share with me? #AcademicSky #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Academic freedom is a sacrosanct element of democracy. This is not the first time universities and academics have been attacked by the right. JD Vance famously described universities as ‘the enemy’. It is not for the government to proscribe what academics and students can say! chng.it/86MvZhZYHd

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Defend academic freedom and institutional autonomy. We stand with Harvard!

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

What ethical responsibilities do we bear when we write about war? This is one of the questions we’re posing in our June colloquium on early modern war narratives. CFP here and the deadline is 11th April! Please share widely and consider submitting an abstract! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...

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Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. CfP deadline: 11th April.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Who's joining us in Cardiff for our Annual Welsh Lecture? Come hear Ruth Canning discuss 'The “Irish Problem” in English Colonial History', with a response from @lloydbowen.bsky.social & chaired by our Wales Rep @mrfw17thc.bsky.social! June 18, 2025. All welcome! www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ir...

The “Irish Problem” in English Colonial History

Ruth Canning (Liverpool Hope University)
18 June 2025, 17.00-19.00, Council Room One, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University. CF10 3WT. Further details and to register: https://shorturl.at/mYoR

White text on green background to left of detail of soldiers marching while holding severed heads on pikes. 'SRS Annual Welsh Lecture 2025' and 'Society for Renaissance Studies' in white on burgundy background at bottom of image.

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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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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Post Doc! "Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture" Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #Skystorians 🗃

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IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship | IASH

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Heather Clark @heatherjc.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Fascinating for any biscuit historians with a special interest in Empire Biscuits. Also includes my grandma's lovely handwritten recipe!

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

An excellent Saturday spent in Auld Reekie at the Scottish History Society’s AGM. The Presidential lecture touching on John Galt’s brilliant Ringan Gilhaize, Viscount Dundee and Killiecrankie. Taken just before retiring to Sandy Bell’s pub, a guid evening.

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Fellow #EarlyModern #skystorians, following @weegiegraeme.bsky.social and @bethanyqualls.bsky.social's lead on the #17thC and #18thC hashtags, I have created a feed for the #16thC. Please pin the feed, use the hashtag, and tell your friends! You can find feeds in the menu to your left.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Dipping back again a bit into M&B Bannerlord and it's striking to me how the simplifications it makes (many shared with the Total War series) distort pre-gunpowder tactics and the uses of units. 1/

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Off to New York today, almost there, for the holidays. Looking forward to seeing my partner and her family. Pictured earlier was the mandatory Vitamin T.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

William III, with one hand upon a blazing altar, presents a cap of Liberty to Hibernia, who is kneeling before him & resting upon her shield. James II & a French soldier are fleeing, leaving on the ground a broken anchor, sceptre, sword, and yoke. (British Museum, both 1690)

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

With a significant effort and some excellent feedback, I have finished revising a chapter on the Highland War for a forthcoming volume on the Jacobites. So, it only felt appropriate to crack one of these tonight. #Skystorians #earlymodern #17thc #JacobiteStudies

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long sixteenth century. Please share, contact me with suggestions for other people to include, and of course if you would like to be included yourself. #skystorians #SixteenthCentury #StarterPack #history #EarlyModern go.bsky.app/U4CEeWN

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

29 Nov 1632: d. Frederick V, of #Bohemia #otd husband of Queen Elizabeth Stuart

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Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

There are some wonderful scholars on this list. Including the fabulous Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hugh Mackay underlines the value of experienced officers and soldiers, like James, in his memoir. He notes his brother ‘was killed upon the spot with severals of the old souldiers pickmen, who stood by him after the shot had run away’. Killiecrankie was a defeat because inexperienced soldiers fled.

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

James Mackay became Lieutenant-Colonel of his brother’s regiment of the Scots-Dutch Brigade. He was killed fighting as part of that regiment (the 1st) against the Jacobites during the Highland War at the Battle of Killiecrankie, 27th July 1689. #Skystorians #earlymodern #17thc #JacobiteStudies

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

His younger brother James enlisted directly in the military of Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice. Probably around the same time or just after the end of the siege. He seems to have served well before joining his brother in the Dutch Republic in 1678. #Skystorians #earlymodern #17thc

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

At the end of the Siege, Mackay returned to France and to his regiment. He served in the first half of the Franco-Dutch War against the Dutch. By 1674, he transfers his commission as a captain to the Scots-Dutch Brigade. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General. #Skystorians #earlymodern #17thc

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Mackay and his fellow officers were dispatched as part of a 1669 French expedition under the command of François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort. Mackay would later write an account of the siege in French - modelled on Julius Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul. #Skystorians #earlymodern #17thc

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hugh Mackay (the eldest of the two) went first in 1660. He joined the Scots Regiment de Douglas in France but he first saw action as part of a group of French volunteers serving Venice during the latter half of the Cretan War (1645-1669). #earlymodern #17thc

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Another lesser known link is through the Mackays of Scourie and, namely, two brothers - Hugh and James. The third and fourth male siblings of the family went the way of many unlikely to gain land or title (due to primogeniture), they sought military employment in Europe. #earlymodern #17thc

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Scottish martial migration to Italy had a long, if minor, precedent. Following the Restoration, religious differences do seem to have deterred the majority of Scots soldiers from serving Italian powers, like Venice. Although by the 1640s we have figures like Sir James Scott #earlymodern #17thc

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A really fun & fascinating episode on the Venetian Empire. Like most empires of the time it made use of professional foreign soldiers, particularly during the 17th century, including Scots! There’s an unlikely link to the Scots-Dutch Brigade! 1/ #earlymodern #17thc open.spotify.com/episode/2DQR...

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The Venetian Empire

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The Venetian Empire

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Sharing this #StarterPack from @weegiegraeme.bsky.social go.bsky.app/JebcwC1

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Glasgow’s Mitchell Library looking braw in the stark chilly November evening!

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Dr Julie Holder @julieh80.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

So here I am checking out bluesky with my first post. I love to promote talks and events to do with museums, Scottish History and disability history. Also expect pug and cat photos! Find put more about me here www.nms.ac.uk/profile/dr-j...

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Dr Julie Holder | National Museums Scotland

Responsible for: Supporting all curatorial activity across the Scottish Modern and Contemporary History Section.Research Interests: Scottish antiquarianism

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

@markshearwood.bsky.social Could you give me a message on here or an email, when you get the chance? I have a colleague who’s wanting to chat with a few 1688 military scholars.

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I have created a pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! If there is anyone I should add or you would like to be added do let me know - apologies for all I missed, hard to keep up these days. Do consider sharing to help enable scholars reconnect & rebuild network(s)! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🚨BREAKING NEWS!🚨 Really excited to launch the BlueSky account of the Sarsfield Homecoming Project this evening! All of the posts published on Twitter/X have been archived on it and, from now on, news of the project will be posted on @Sarsfieldhome.bsky.social Please share and follow 🙏🏻

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Natalie M. Smith @nataliesmith.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

My name is Natalie, and I recently completed my PhD on Sweden, empire and identity at the University of St Andrews. I've just moved over from twitter, and am looking for accounts to follow. If you post about swedish/Northern European history, intellectual history or history of empire, pls interact 🙏

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Who needs adding? Let me know!

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Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Anyone who knows me will ken that I jokingly refer to Glasgow’s The Mitchell Library, only half an hour away on public transport, as my office. I go 2 to 4 times a week. In my three years working in UK HE, I’ve only ever had an office once, a pokey wee space in St Andrews which tutors shared.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

‘May it please your Majesty, but they have gone over to Bluesky now.’

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Ad van der Zee @advanderzee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Ook maar eens een starterpekje aangemaakt. D'r kan nog meer bij, dus laat weten als je d'r bij wilt! go.bsky.app/Bj4F9xV

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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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