Elizabeth Ewan

@kiritekatawa.bsky.social

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Scottish medieval and early modern gender historian, cat-lover and book-obsessed

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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 16h

1. Some manuscripts have real character.
They are often not the smartest, shiniest manuscripts, but rather the ones that have seen things. The manuscripts that have really been used (and abused). Today I spent the day with a very charismatic manuscript at the NLS, Edinburgh...🧵

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

My new memoir ‘Phone Charger: My Life Walking to the Bedroom to Fetch Something But Forgetting What It Was By the Time I Get There, Then Walking Back To See If Anything in the Front Room Jogs My Memory, Then Repeating It to Myself While I Walk Back to the Bedroom’ is out next year.

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 3d

⏰ Time is running out! Submit your 8–10k word essay for the Leah Leneman Prize by 22 Dec 2025. Open to students & independent scholars working on women’s or gender history.

Share widely 🔗
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UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 4d

For #EYAInclusion, we’ve been looking at the records of Queen Margaret College, a higher education institution for women that joined with the University of Glasgow in 1892. The records are a fascinating resource for anyone interested in the history of women’s education in Scotland.
DC 233/2/22/2/63

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Ebba Strutzenbladh @ebbastrutzenbladh.bsky.social · 4d

Some medieval mothers struggled to gain custody of their children upon widowhood. My short story “In Her Keeping” is inspired by an Aberdonian custody case, now in print thanks to Causeway Magazine + mentorship by @vickymackenzie.bsky.social

A story from my @sgsah.bsky.social internship.

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Russell Newton @drrussellnewton.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted that a copy of Nathan Hood’s first monograph arrived in the post today! Nathan’s work to date on emotions in early modern Scotland has been outstanding. I am sure this is going to be great too and I can’t wait to read it.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

The Society currently invites applications for its David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People.

The Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj

Closing date: Friday 6 March 2026 #Skystorians

David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People - RHS

Launched in 2023, the David Berry Fellowship provides an annual award of up to £2,500 to undertake research on the history of Scotland and the Scottish people worldwide. Applications for the 2026 Fell...

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scott lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 6d

Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize.

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Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize

The Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. Founded in 2025, the prize is open to book-length wor…

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Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social · 7d

History in the news - from my colleague Leigh Boucher

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful | Leigh Boucher

Researchers now describe it as both historical phenomenon and public health model. Its success was remarkable

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 8d

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 10d

So, anyway. Here is the piece I wrote for the Glasgow Requiem project on the Cathedral well.

new-cleckit.dominie.scot/the-woman-at...

It's an odd piece for me, because I was working well outwith my usual historical beat, and with very little evidence to go on.

View into the Glasgow Cathedral well before the mosaic was installed.

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 10d

Winter Lecture Series RESCHEDULED!

Please note that our third event with Dr Claire McNulty has been rescheduled to Wednesday 7 January 2026. We hope you can still join us online from 17:30 (UK) to hear more about 'Edinburgh's Unruly Women'!

Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SHS Winter Lecture Series 3. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

uofglasgow.zoom.us

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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 10d

tried sketching a 'fantasy' setting for a future project but realised it's just real Edinburgh. where I live. #art

sketch of a city with a character silhouetted in the foreground but it's only barely a fantasy and looks exactly like edinburgh

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 12d

In academic writing it is vitally important to know when you have said enough to prove your argument. It is at this point that you must add every single other piece of evidence you have come across

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 15d

Another good comment. "The arts and humanities classroom really helps us understand the world. We’re comfortable being in complexity. We're comfortable with the question and not the answer. And if there's a time when there's not an answer and we don't know exactly what to do, it’s this moment."

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 16d

An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 18d

Two-year postdoc at Queen’s University for historians of Classical &/or Medieval Europe.

~$70,000/year (CDN); requirement to teach 2 semester-long courses per year; teaching experience & scholarly publications are an asset.

Per donor’s bequest, “only candidates who identify as women are eligible”.

An image of the first page of the call for applications to the postdoc.

An image of the second page for a call for applications to the postdoc.

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 18d

Callum G. Brown’s Ninety Humanists and the Ethical Transition of Britain reveals how a network of British humanist intellectuals, inspired by H.G. Wells, drove major ethical reforms from 1930 to 1980, reshaping British society.

📖 https://bit.ly/3W774xh

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 19d

Under the pseudonym “Meg Dods”, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857) wrote THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL, a cookbook which also includes the various doings of the fictitious Cleikum Club – “a small gathering of absurd diners who do not much like or trust each other”
#BookologyThursday

A page from Chrsitian Isobel Johnstone’s “Cook and Housewife’s Manual” (1826). It begins:

FINAL SEDERUNT OF THE CLEIKUM CLUB.

SCENE—Inmost parlour of the Cleikum Inn, four hours after dinner—The most distinguished members of the Club and a few favoured guests seated round a table, at which Touchwood presides, and which is furnished with the following Zest-Course, having three silver covered dishes over spirit-lamps down the middle:—

Potted Cheese.
Shrimp Sandwiches.
Canapés.
Devilled Woodcocks.
Caviare.
Pickled Oysters.
Olives.
Devilled Biscuits.
Lobster haut gout.
Anchovy Sandwiches.
Devilled Biscuits.
Olives.
Canapés.
Caviare.
Hot Pastry Ramakins.
Salmi of Wild Ducks.

Wine Decanters, a Crystal, and an ancient Silver Claret Stoup, all in amicable confusion.

TOUCHWOOD.
Ha, Meg!—a Zest-course worthy of the grand Publication-dinner which preceded it.
MEG DODS.
I'm proud to find it pleased, Nawbob.—But when is our New Beuk to be out?—for I'm deaved wi' calls for't.
TOUCHWOOD.
The very question Mr Weibach of the ______ Review did me the honour to put this moment across the table.—Our IMPROVED EDITION, Sir, is expected to show its face in the Row every hour now: a day of gladness that-especially if it precedes the next great Trade-Dinner.
REVIEWER.
The whole dining and literary world are a-gape, Madam, for your admirable INSTITUTE OF MODERN COOKERY—A little more of the Salmi, if you please, Nabob.—Exquisite!—A half squeeze of the Seville.—French this, I could swear?
TOUCHWOOD.
Right, Sir; Note 311 modified by Receipt 344.—But lose no time;—every moment is precious here.—No dallying with a devil.—Dr Redgill, commend me to you!—I like to see a man in downright earnest.—Rather pungent—eh?—too much of the cayenne?

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 20d

Here at Exeter we are offering three fully funded AHRC PhD places in humanities subjects. Please get in touch if you are keen to come and do research with us! Closing date 23 February 2026: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

PhD: AHRC Studentship | University of Exeter

Project descriptionThe University of Exeter is offering up to three fully funded AHRC doctoral studentships and training and development opportunities across a range of the AHRC’s disciplines for cand...

www.exeter.ac.uk

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Heather McDaid @heathermmcd.bsky.social · 21d

Argonaut Books needs your help 📣

Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.

Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...

WE HAVE NEWS. We've been shocked go discover that the UK's biggest book.cjaon is moving in mere steps from our front door. Waterstones, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh shop less than 100 metres from Argonaut Books at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. We know that our community is what makes it possible for us to do what we do here at Argonaut and we're going to need your help. Please share this post with everyone you know, read.on for more info about what we're going to do and what happens next.

Ways you can help. Please share this post with friends ans followers. Yoi have supported us through the end of the lock down, a rocky outlook for the retail industry and two years of relentless disruptive roadworks.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 21d

In common with every camera-wielding lifeform in Glasgow, I have seen the Rebel Bear's latest piece.

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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 21d

See my new blog post on "Multi-talented Women" featuring the current exhibition at #NMWA on women as artists, engravers, calligraphers, sculptors, embroiderers, lacemakers, etc. I place #EstherInglis within this coteree of talented Netherlandish women. estheringlis.com/2025/11/17/w...

Women of Many Talents

Calligrapher, limner, embroiderer, writer – those are all arts in which Esther Inglis engaged. She seems to have been unique in Britain at the time, so who were her cohorts? There must have b…

estheringlis.com

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 21d

Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency & its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
25 Nov, Glasgow. Free

@leoniejungen.bsky.social investigates CLAN-ALBIN, a novel by Walter Scott’s contemporary, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857)
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Leonie Jungen | Tales of a Grandmother

Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency and Its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 22d

Another Canadian/Quebec history job posting, this one at UQAM - its been a couple decades since I've seen 6 tenure-track job postings in Cdn history all at once. Very happy to see this.

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Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social · 22d

Happy St Margaret’s Day

Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 23d

3/3 'Here the Holy Saint Margaret is delivered from the deep waters and comes to the land of the Scots' and 'Here the Holy St Margaret and her maidens do many noble works for the beautifying of Holy Church'

Louis Davis, 1909, Paisley Abbey, Scotland. Today's the feast of St Margaret of Scotland.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 22d

Comment to editor: “Outwith is a commonly used and very useful Scottish word which Microsoft refuses to accept.”

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 22d

Want to join the www.codicum.eu project?

3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.

#Medieval #Manuscript

3-year postdoc position in medieval studies

3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 22d

Brother and Sister outside a Glasgow tenement, 1955, painting by Joan Eardley, 1921-63 (Aberdeen Gallery). #WomensArt

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 23d

Job - please share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South.
Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions

www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...

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