Built in 1582, Buckholm Tower endured the dangerous decades of the Border Reivers and witnessed the turbulent times following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. thistleandtime.scot/2026/02/11/b...
The account also mentions a ferry boat at Crossford and horses hired to carry stuff from Lanark
When Henri Cleutin, sieur d'Oisel, visited Craignethan Castle in November 1550, Regent Arran sent his servant Dalyell to taverns in Lanark to buy beer, white white, and claret
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We all know about the #OldFirm. But what's the 'oldest firm' in the history of Scottish #football?
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The answer takes us back to #medieval and #earlymodern St Andrews, where university and city invested in an unlawful game.
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A few yards of black bumbareene often lightens the mood
Camillo Marini, an Italian soldier in Scotland and at the siege of Metz en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo...
A medieval English birth girdle, an amulet offering protection for women during childbirth. It's inscribed with protective prayers, charms and other talismans.
You can consult the entire MS online now! (Harley Roll T 11)
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My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.
The @scotchurchhist.bsky.social essay prize is open! All entries will be considered for publication in the Society’s journal and the winning author will be awarded £500
This year's deadline is 30 July 2026. Full details here www.scottishchurchhistory.org/prize
Please share widely :)
For passementerie in British country houses, Annabel Westman, 'Fringe, Frog and Tassel: The Art of the Trimmings-Maker in Interior Decoration', lovely pictures
#NavalHistory people! Help! Our local museum has a life raft we're trying to research. Does anyone know anything about it? It is triangular, and is stamped with a 1940 date.
Is it perhaps a type of "self-inflating dinghy", IWM has pictures as used by RAF: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
New on the blog: @jamesafox.bsky.social explores the unique materiality of a rare surving copy of a recipe book by the famous 'authress' Hannnah Woolley 🎂
Read more here 👇
howtobook.hypotheses.org/6000
#recipes #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern
#InternationalWomensDay may have come and gone in 2026, but you can read about some of our extraordinary ancestresses in Midlands History all year round...
... like Anna Muggeridge's article on women's experiences of local government in Worcester 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Crichton Castle - Constructed as a tower house in the late 14th century (compressed quality for uploading, but you get the idea).
When Jonet Beaton, lady Condland, lived at Mountquhanie in the 1570s she employed James Hunter, a glazier from Edinburgh to fix the windows (and called the place 'Balquhany')
There is a wikipedia article about 'Frognal House' aka Frog Pool
There's a monumental brass at Edensor to James Beaton (died 1570), which is a good example of the sort of thing Mary, Queen of Scots, imported from Paris, as well as being exceptionally informative. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Be...
Please share: due to withdrawal I have a space on my castles panel for #LeedsIMC.
If you’ve an idea needs airing on time and temporalities in castles, give me a shout/submit via link! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... @imc-leeds.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social
Original CfP below ⬇️
I feel they have misunderstood this expression:
Just a reminder... Tomorrow, 5 March, 5.30 pm ✨ Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social ,
and Michael Powell Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social speaking on "Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England" Sign-up in person & online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Are you a PG student or ECR interested in presenting at our conference ‘Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750’ in June?
Bursaries to help with expenses are generously funded by @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so please send us your abstract by 14 March!
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A grant to the gold prospector Cornelius de Vos to make salt at Newhaven, Edinburgh, 24 May 1567. description is painful: www.capitalcollections.org.uk/view-item?i=...
An exciting release from the IMEMS Press with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social! Many congratulation to its author, Dr Sara Ayres.
The second one may well be this 1561 title, Verae alchemiae artisqve metallicae: archive.org/details/vera...
How does he sleep at night?
New from @imems.bsky.social The Grand Tour of Prince George of Denmark in England, 1669 is an annotated diary describing the politics, cultural richness and practicalities of elite educational travel in England during the early reign of Charles II. Read more > buff.ly/jAXnZqB @saraayres.bsky.social
Our beautiful Turkish bath is 150 years old! In this illustrated talk, art historian Dr Ailsa Boyd @ailsaboyd.bsky.social will discuss 'The Arlington Baths, The Alhambra and Owen Jones: Islamic architecture and design in the 19th century’. Fri 13 Mar, 7pm, free!
📣 Still time to get your abstract in for 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', a two-day conference to be held at Oxford on 18/19 June 2026. Generously supported by Corpus Christi, @oxfordcems.bsky.social, and @srsrensoc.bsky.social.
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Chamberlain Letters, 2 vols, seems a bargain at £20
