We have just published details of our Research Grant (up to £500). Please see below and share widely! thejohngaltsociety.com/research-grant/

And another bonus! all but one Harvard Houghton Library eight #EstherInglis manuscripts are now digitized. See links at: estheringlis.com/ms-locations/ Congrats again to the photographers - a difficult feat. This MS measures only 5 x 8 cm!

Exciting news from our friends at St Andrews - join them at the Wardlaw Museum on Monday 14th October, at 6.30pm for a celebration of Fergusson's life featuring Sheena Blackhall, Rosa Campbell, Robert Crawford, Bill Herbert & Don Paterson! Free tickets ⤵️ robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/event/robert-f…

Scottish Poetry Reprint 12, Jamie Reid Baxter's essay on Esther Inglis's Octonaries, with the first printed text co-ed with Georgianna Ziegler, is now out, ahead of Oct 19-20 conference Esther Inglis 2024 Centre for Research Collections amazon.com/dp/B0DJGHD4F3/

Well done Craig Lamont on this British Library publication

Really important news: will stimulate new kinds of research on the Ellisland farm and Burns's years there, and up its potential for the local economy while safeguarding the historic integrity of the site. Congratulations to all involved.

I’ve avoided Edwin Muir’s essays/articles on Robert Burns but having come across the draft for one at National Library of Scotland archives & now read all of these in Andrew Noble’s Uncollected Scottish Criticism, it is proving fascinating to read them in date order #edwinmuir #robertburns

Just noticed that Alex Linklater's essay Alexander Linklater on MacDiarmid from SSL 49.1 has already topped a thousand downloads, the fastest uptake of any recent SSL article: a good sign that readers are eager for his forthcoming biography. scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol49/iss1…

It’s up! A 12 month 0.5 FTE post on my project editing the letters of Hannah More. Based at Bristol, supported by me and Jenny Batt and the lovely ⁦The Hannah More Society⁩ team. If you have DH skills apply! Senior Research Associate at University of Bristol jobs.ac.uk/job/DKG535/sen…

I'm delighted that SGSAH is going to be funding an internship at National Library of Scotland looking at one of our "hidden collections" of US politics material!! It's open to any 2nd/3rd year PhDs in Scotland (no need to be SGSAH-funded)- closing date 15th Nov!😊 sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/2025/…

📢 SGSAH has 25 new Internships which are now OPEN for applications! Get paid to enhance your research skills and boost your career prospects ✨ Open to all Arts & Humanities PhD researchers across Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Apply by Nov 15 🔗sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/ List of partners👇

This quite extraordinary online exhibition from the Edinburgh UL Esther Inglis 2024 with many new digitizations from Inglis MSS, and even modern creative responses to her work, is worth book-marking: all credit to everybody involved. exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/re…

This week, I added the 25,000th novel to the database! Been bouncing between the English Catalogue volumes 1 and 4 and both have been slow going. Love to hear stories from users and their finds! #victorianstudies #digitalhumanities #bookhistory

Interviewer: “How do you explain this gap in your resume?” Me: “I was trying to connect with eduroam”

HIRING: this excellent project across book history, copyright studies and digital humanities is looking for a Research Fellow - jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/5b599512-2…

Come and explore our excellent Special Collections! Funded fellowships - deadline January 6th.

Fully-funded AHRC PhD studentship on 'Understanding ‘Place’ in Historical Botanical Collections: science, commerce, empire, and the early-modern herbarium'. Come and work on the Sloane Herbarium! For details, see: lahp.ac.uk/prospective-st…

An update to the university website means the link for our ECR funding opportunity has changed. Deadline is 19th December so do get those applications in: abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-eve…

The New Voices ECR Fellowship Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies invites EC researchers working on an Irish and/or Scottish research project in the Arts and Humanities to apply for up to £1000 to enable a short-term stay in Aberdeen. Deadline: 19 December 2024. Details: abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-eve… 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿