Derrick Johnstone
@djohnstone.bsky.social
Time to delve into Scottish history | Research Affiliate, Glasgow U, on 17C Scots emigrants to New Jersey | Old Edinburgh Club | Applications of AI in history and genealogy | Cycling | Family & Keeshonds
You can't have a list like this without including Jaffa Cakes... introduced by McVities in 1927. I recall that there has been some dispute over who should get the credit for their invention, but it was created in Edinburgh.
August 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
You can't have a list like this without including Jaffa Cakes... introduced by McVities in 1927. I recall that there has been some dispute over who should get the credit for their invention, but it was created in Edinburgh.
Read about what happened to members of the Sweet Singers. Some were transported to America. Did their leader John Gibb really engage in diabolical practices with native Americans, as his contemporaries claimed (“much admired by the heathen, for his familiar converse with the devil bodily”)?
March 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Read about what happened to members of the Sweet Singers. Some were transported to America. Did their leader John Gibb really engage in diabolical practices with native Americans, as his contemporaries claimed (“much admired by the heathen, for his familiar converse with the devil bodily”)?
The Sweet Singers were a thorn in the flesh of the authorities, despite their small numbers, and regarded as mad by other Covenanters. They camped in the Pentlands to await Biblical destruction of Edinburgh: another Sodom or Gomorrah?
March 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Sweet Singers were a thorn in the flesh of the authorities, despite their small numbers, and regarded as mad by other Covenanters. They camped in the Pentlands to await Biblical destruction of Edinburgh: another Sodom or Gomorrah?
Delighted to see fruits of my labours in print, in the latest Book of the Old Edinburgh Club. The article features the Sweet Singers, a sect on the extreme fringes of Covenanting during the Killing Times of the 1680s.
March 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Delighted to see fruits of my labours in print, in the latest Book of the Old Edinburgh Club. The article features the Sweet Singers, a sect on the extreme fringes of Covenanting during the Killing Times of the 1680s.