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#DigitalHumanities project by @drleith.bsky.social and The Digital
Humanities Innovation Lab at Simon Fraser University Library to analyze the #jacobite #manuscript by Robert Forbes held in the National Library of Scotland. #Scottish @scottishsfu.bsky.so
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The Lyon in Mourning Manuscript (1775) @lyoninmourning.bsky.social · Jul 10
New Collection 30% Discount with code NEW30! Shaping #Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks, a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism's cultural legacy from the 1688 Revolution to #Outlander @edinburghup.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
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New Collection, edited by Dr. Leith Davis (Simon Fraser University) and Dr. Kevin J. James (University of Guelph), "Shaping #Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks" is a multidisciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
August 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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New Collection 30% Discount with code NEW30! Shaping #Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks, a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism's cultural legacy from the 1688 Revolution to #Outlander @edinburghup.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
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July 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
lyoninmourning.bsky.social
@lyoninmourning.bsky.social would like to congratulate Dr. Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society!
June 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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“Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time […] Communication may be made in broken words, the business of life be carried on with substantives alone; but that is not what we call literature…”

—Robert Louis Stevenson, ESSAYS IN THE ART OF WRITING
phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jun 21
This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩
June 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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juliaditter.bsky.social
Very excited that my book is now available to read via Bloomsbury Open Access! 🎉

Can't wait to receive my physical copies 📘

Pre-order for your library and/or read it now here:
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

@scotlit.bsky.social @timothycbaker.bsky.social @bendoyle.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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“The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript, held by @natlibscot.bsky.social, contains conversations, narratives, poems, songs, letters & more, relating to the 1745 rising. From 2023: Prof @drleith.bsky.social discusses the @lyoninmourning.bsky.social project findings
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Encoding and Analysing 'The Lyon in Mourning': Shedding New Light on the Jacobites
YouTube video by ASL
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April 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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A talk by author @sarasheridan.bsky.social for the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. Sara’s own historical novels include The Fair Botanists, set in Enlightenment Edinburgh, & The Secrets of Blythswood Square, set in Victorian Glasgow
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Sara Sheridan - Writing Historic Novels in the Age of Scott
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April 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Gorgeous day in Aberdeen at the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University, chatting all things Robert Fergusson. 🌞
Old church building against a very blue sky. Ornate gate posts like towers against a blue sky.
March 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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In Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood, there was (& I hope still is) a Victorian device built to horrify, edify, & entertain the young… When you deposit your coin, mechanical puppets re-enact the grizzly story of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber
#WyrdWednesday
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SWEENEY TODD machine
YouTube video by Daniel Moser
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March 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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“Borderlands are sites of mystery, but they are also theatres where, as often as not, tragedy unfolds… where the dead still linger and the living come, on special occasions, to grieve.”

—“Borderlands”, by John Burnside
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'Borderlands' by John Burnside - The Bottle Imp
If there is any sensation that is better than walking to the edge of a settlement – a town on the road, a lonely filling station, the huddle of cabins and steam on the highway through the Argentine pa...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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scotrecsoc.bsky.social
Hello to our new followers! As a scholarly publishing society, the SRS publishes critical editions of Scottish manuscript records, promoting access around the globe. Each year a new volume comes out, with copies sent to members. To join or to buy volumes:
www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/
February 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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A’ Ceangal Chruinneachaidhean: Beul-Aithris Ghàidhlig | Connecting Collections: Gaelic Oral Tradition
26 Feb @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, free

Exploring Gaelic oral tradition through handwritten manuscripts & audio recordings from the 18th century to the present
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A' Ceangal Chruinneachaidhean: Beul-Aithris Ghàidhlig
A' Ceangal Chruinneachaidhean: Beul-Aithris Ghàidhlig | Connecting Collections: Gaelic Oral Tradition
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February 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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drleith.bsky.social
I've giving a free online public talk tomorrow (Feb. 8) for the Scottish American History Forum. Looking forward to talking about Jacobitism and Cultural Memory. Bright and early: 8 am PT. #jacobites, #memorystudies and #18th-c media chicagoscots.org/event/scotti...
Scottish American History Forum - Chicago Scots
Topic: Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1820 Speaker: Dr. Leith Davis, PhD, Professor Department of English and Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C....
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February 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Jacobitism & Cultural Memory, 1688–1830
8 Feb, free online

Prof @drleith.bsky.social will discuss her new book, JACOBITISM & CULTURAL MEMORY, 1688–1830. The talk is free to join & aimed at a general public audience
chicagoscots.org/event/scotti...
Scottish American History Forum - Chicago Scots
Topic: Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1820 Speaker: Dr. Leith Davis, PhD, Professor Department of English and Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C....
chicagoscots.org
February 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Yesterday, I gave presentation about my Burns book to the University of Mainz’s Scottish Hub. The presentation is now on YouTube. Link ⬇️
February 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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poncarova.bsky.social
In a fortnight at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. A great honour (and surprise) to be asked by @asls.org.uk to deliver the lecture. Join us for a celebration of Douglas Young, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Willie Neill, and others whose work brought Gaelic and Scots closer in new ways.
Gaelic and Scots in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Connections, Inspirations, and the Role of New Users
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February 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Walter Scott’s LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY & WITCHCRAFT (1830): an accused witch confesses – after torture – that she & others “charmed a cat by certain spells, having four joints of men knit to its feet, which they threw into the sea to excite a tempest”
#WyrdWednesday
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Agnes Sampson, the grave matron before mentioned, after being an hour tortured by the twisting of a cord around her head, according to the custom of the Buccaneers, confessed that she had consulted with one Richard Grahame concerning the probable length of the king’s life, and the means of shortening it. But Satan, to whom they at length resorted for advice, told them in French respecting King James, Il est un homme de Dieu. The poor woman also acknowledged that she had held a meeting with those of her sisterhood, who had charmed a cat by certain spells, having four joints of men knit to its feet, which they threw into the sea to excite a tempest. Another frolic they had when, like the weird sisters in Macbeth, they embarked in sieves with much mirth and jollity, the Fiend rolling himself before them upon the waves, dimly seen, and resembling a huge haystack in size and appearance. They went on board of a foreign ship richly laded with wines, where, invisible to the crew, they feasted till the sport grew tiresome, and then Satan sunk the vessel and all on board. “A Witches’ Frolic” – a comical illustration, “Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank Nov. 1830”, showing witches squatting in sieves, riding on and above a stormy sea and obviously enjoying themselves (although one witch is somewhat too large for her sieve, and doesn’t look as comfortable as the others). A huge black shape looms in the middle distance, with one enormous eye hinted at. A forked tail pokes out of the waves behind it. On the horizon, a square-rigged sailing ship is obviously in peril.
February 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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(Re)collecting Jacobites in Robert Forbes’s “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript
15 Feb, @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social – free

Prof @drleith.bsky.social discusses material in “The Lyon in Mourning” related to Jacobite men & women who would be otherwise lost to history
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PUBLIC TALK: (Re)collecting Jacobites with Leith Davis
A talk for all those curious about the Jacobites! Professor Leith Davies reveals 'The Lyon in Mourning'.
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January 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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swinc-edi.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to announce our research event on Scottish and Irish Gothic on 11 April, with a keynote by Claire Connolly and a fabulous lineup of speakers. We look forward to welcoming you.

Full details and registration below:

www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/scottish-and...
Flyer for the advertised event. Text reads: Scottish and Irish Gothic 11 April 50 George Square, 1.06 2pm - 6pm Followed by a reception Keynote by Claire Connolly Speakers: Christina Morin, Dale Townshend, Matthew Sangster, Maddy Potter
January 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The longlist for the 2024 Highland Book Prize/Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd has been announced. The award celebrates poetry, fiction, & non-fiction that comes from the landscape & culture of the Scottish Highlands & Islands.
www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/2024-longlist/
2024 Longlist - The Highland Book Prize | Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd
Highland Book Prize 2024 Longlist Announced The longlist for the Highland Book Prize 2024 has been announced by the Highland Society of London and Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre. Thi...
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January 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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CFP: Cultures of Care in Scottish Women’s Writing

Special issue of SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW
ed. by Dr @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social & Dr @ainsley76.bsky.social

Please send abstracts for consideration by 30 January 2025
Full details below
CALL FOR PAPERS 'CULTURES OF CARE IN SCOTTISH WOMEN'S WRITING' Papers are invited for a special issue which will explore the myriad ways in which the concept of care has been imagined by Scottish women writers. 'Care' encompasses a diversity of meanings across philosophical, moral, and spiritual traditions; in practices which range from social to medial to therapeutic, and beyond; and in semantic terms evokes ideas of nurture, protection, welfare; feelings of solicitude, concern, love. ‘To care for’ someone, or something, is both to experience, and to enact, such affect with vigilance and a kind of watchful attention. We are interested in the ways in which Scottish women writers - across a variety of genres and forms - have imaginatively explored the concept of care as ethos and/or practice. We also invite a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches from (for example) environmental humanities; medical humanities; history of emotion studies. Themes which might be explored include, but are not limited to: care of, and for self; care of, and for others, including communities and networks; care for nature, environment, and non-human others; therapeutic and/or medical care; concepts of welfare (individual and collective); ideas of nurture; expression of affect and emotion (including anxiety); care as cultural activism; writing/ creating as an act of care; the experience of being taken care of. Please send 200-word abstracts and a short bio to s.m.dunnigan@ed.ac.uk and amcinto9@ed.ac.uk by Thursday 30 January 2025
January 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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The grey roots circle thee, who never knew
At any hour within thy travels lone
A human shape but mine…

—Olive Fraser, “The Adder of Quinag”
A poem for the #YearoftheSnake 🐍
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The Adder of Quinag Olive Fraser The grey roots circle thee, who never knew At any hour within thy travels lone A human shape but mine. Thou com’st to view, Wild, unafraid, what stands beside thy stone And gazes on thee in thy wilderness Of fifty miles. What thinkst thou of me, For I am of a race thou could’st not guess Would murder all thy hapless innocency? O mountain, take thy small heart back again And keep him in thy care when I shall go, Unvisited by all things but the rain, The hurtless sunbeams, and the winds that blow For ever in his moors. O let him hold No intricate memory of that being who stood Just once by his wild beauty, and did fold Him with a blessing alien to my blood.
January 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Lyra Celtica: Harry Josephine Giles on Wilfion
19 Feb, Edinburgh – free

Harry Josephine Giles & special guests explore the work & legacy of genderweird Celtic Revival writer Fiona Macleod / William Sharp (1855–1905) – known as “Wilfion” by their wife
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Lyra Celtica: Harry Josephine Giles on Wilfion
Join us to explore the work and legacy of genderweird Celtic Revival writer Fiona Macleod / William Sharp with Harry Josephine Giles.
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January 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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drcleoocy.bsky.social
Ruthless marginalia sighting of the day:
January 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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bobmaclean.bsky.social
On the subject of #Bookhistory valentines, I do have a soft spot for this 19th century Glasgow example eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b1655... (read more about these here: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...)
A hand-coloured lithograph caricature image of a compositor at his case with composing stick in left hand and reaching for type with right. Text reads: You set of a Printer, your nose is too red, Your legs are defective as well as your head; All your enjoyments are drawn from the pot; You’re ragged, you’re lazy, you’re a poor drunken sot. At births, deaths, and marriages you’re up to a trick, And, though not on the tramp, you have always a stick.
January 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM