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We're so excited to announce #HistParl's new podcast, Tales from the Green Benches: an Oral History of Parliament! Episodes drop every Monday, starting next week- you can listen to the trailer and subscribe early where ever you get your podcasts! shows.acast.com/tales-from-the…

We’ve received an inquiry from Australia related to late-eighteenth century Scottish letters from/to trading officials. Could any of our followers suggest a suitable Aussie archive to offer these documents too? ANZAMEMS Katie Barclay?

Happy to announce that "Books and Borrowing: Libraries, Books, and Book Circulation", a special issue of Library and Information History (40.3), guest edited by myself, Matthew Sangster, and Dr Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell, is now out in the world and ready to read! euppublishing.com/toc/lih/40/3

Congratulations to our Books & Borrowing, 1750-1830 colleagues on this second special issue! 🥂

You heard it here first! TenementKitchen and I are launching the Scottish Food History podcast, beginning with a series on Victorian Christmas! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍽️🎄 If you'd like to get in touch with weird food questions, to share your own Christmas traditions, we want to hear from you!

Read on for a botanical love story between nineteenth-century visitors to Innerpeffray Library Library! A thread. 🧵#BookHistory #Libraries

How can we go about finding the reputations of long-forgotten writers? My latest article (doi.org/10.3366/lih.20…) offers some answers. A big thanks to Dr Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell, Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman Matthew Sangster for putting this all together!

We have just uploaded part of the Scottish Privy Council Records Website Launch event, which was held on 24 October 2024 (#ICYMI), on YouTube. Watch this space for another video going through the website's (spcr.ac.uk) functionality. youtube.com/watch?v=SVvvwx…

Publication Announcement: Journal of Irish & Scottish Studies - Special Issue on North East Scots and Colonialism. Edited by Dr Désha A Osborne Dr Matthew Lee and Eloise Grey. jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/36/info/

This week’s SGSAH blog post is the latest in our “In Conversation with” series. Emma McCabe and Eeva Savolainen talk PhD life with disability and chronic illness, accessing health resources, and the importance of solidarity: sgsahblog.com/2024/12/02/nav…

Thanks to everyone who sent in a paper or panel proposal! We're delighted with an embarrassment of riches, and this is shaping up to be a wonderfully substantial conference. Watch this space for registration details in the new year! Eighteenth Century Studies at Stirling 18thCSSS

Publication day!!! Anthony Page

CALL FOR REVIEWERS 🧐 Did you love/hate the new Nosferatu? Do you plan to visit exhibitions in Jane Austen's country for her 250th birthday? Is there a new (Jan24 onward) monograph you would like to review? We want to work with you! ✨

Anyone about in Stirling at 2pm this Wednesday 29 January, do consider attending our own PhD researcher Kat Pruente's "The Throckmorton Letters: A Diplomat’s Despair" at The Stirling Smith. More information can be found here: smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk/product/talks-…

Join us next Wednesday 5 February for our next seminar. One of our own PhD researchers, Gema Silva Ferrandez, who will present her paper titled ‘Re-Imagining Byron: from Lady Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon to 21st Century Fiction.’ 1-2pm; Teams link on request. All very welcome!

1/2 Great to see #MiningLandscapes Minto Walk being used for a free guided walk by Greener Kirkcaldy The route was created by #Cardenden History Group and brought to life by former mine manager’s daughter who grew up in the shadow of the black bing interested👇 greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk/event/mining-l…

Job klaxons! We are recruiting three postdoc Fellows to work on the global histories of #HIV and #AIDS #activism in #India; #South #Africa; #Turkey and the Middle East. Thanks to generous funding from the UKRI. You may find the links in the comments below.

Join us for our Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM on 29 March! Free to SHS members and only £5 for non-members. Register here: tickettailor.com/events/scottis…