Many thanks to all who attended our "Perspectives on Esther Inglis" panel at the IASSL conference last week Nottingham English ! We heard papers from Anna-Nadine Pike, Dr Jamie Reid Baxter, and Dr Georgianna Ziegler, all thinking about Esther Inglis as a literary author.

One week to go! Proposals are invited for a session on Esther Inglis and her manuscripts at the The Renaissance Society of America 2025 conference in Boston! See the call for papers below, and do get in touch with any enquiries... rsa.org/page/RSAAnnual… #RenTwitter #RenSA2025 #earlymodern

Just adding encouragement here - this is bound to be an amazing conference held jointly with SAA. You’ll never meet so many early modernists in one place again! #SAA #RenSA2025

Preparations are underway for our immersive musical event as part of @SacredArtsFest on the 17th August - do come along to hear choral settings of devotional verses known and/or written by Esther Inglis within her lifetime. More details here: libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/estheringlis/2…

Our first public lecture was a wonderful success - many thanks to all who joined us at St Vincent's Chapel on the 17th August!

Esther Inglis died #OnThisDay 400 years ago, 30th August 1624. Marking this anniversary, a choral concert will take place this evening in a fifteenth-century Kirk in Leith, where Inglis herself lived at the very end of her life 🪻 Do join us at 7.30pm! eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-my-makers…

Many thanks to all who attended our concert in celebration of Esther Inglis on the 30th August - the day of her death, 400 years on. What a beautiful space to hear sacred music and the first performance of Gerda Stevenson's 'Nine Haiku for Esther Inglis', set by Sheena Phillips

There's still time to register for our upcoming colloquium at LLCatEdinburgh - we would be delighted to see you there! Full programme and registration link here: ed.ac.uk/literatures-la…

I is for Inglis! A new entry on Esther Inglis has just been added to the Palgrave Macmillan Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing, written by our Project Curator. Read it here: link-springer-com.eux.idm.oclc.org/referenceworke…

*More* music for Esther Inglis? Alongside our colloquium, "Esther Inglis in Contexts and Culture", we are delighted to be hosting another concert, this time at St Cecilia's Hall, on the 20th October. Booking via Eventbrite - this concert is open to all! eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-concert-fo…

If you do anything today, then listen to the melodious sounds of Jamie Reid Baxter: he reads out Scottish letters from #EstherInglis ' husband Bartilmo Kello to Queen Elizabeth I and it's addictive: exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/re…

It's happening: my European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator project 🪶#FEATHERS🪶is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture and manuscript production at Universiteit Leiden on 7-9 May 2025. See Call for Papers (deadline for abstracts 20 Dec): student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025…