Roslyn Potter

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Songs and Fancies: Aberdonian music-making in the 17th Century Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions also exist from e.g. the NLS). This post welcomes guest-author Roslyn Potter, who is …

🎶 I wrote a piece on 'Songs and Fancies', Scotland's earliest printed music book. Many thanks to Jane Petteree over at Soundyngs blog for hosting!

According to (maybe apocraphal) family stories, in the 1980s my uncle befriended a jackdaw who stole cigarettes for him from the nearby pub and brought them to his window. Maybe this crow will start bringing you gold coins or something!

Very cool opportunity from @thenightwith.bsky.social for aspiring and enthusiastic sound engineers 🎻🎶

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Martin Eastwell - Lady Maggies Lilt - Music From The Lute Book Of Lady Margaret Wemyss 1629-1648 View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2012 CD release of "Lady Maggies Lilt - Music From The Lute Book Of Lady Margaret Wemyss 1629-1648" on Discogs.

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I see what you mean! Let’s hope Eric will be kind enough to have a wee go. Actually! I just remembered Martin Eastwell made an album of the music from Wemyss…that might point somewhere!

Hi Sonya, so according to Evelyn Stell’s thesis it is either ‘ane mask’ or ‘ballat’ so most likely a tune to dance to, but I can’t be sure. The list of instrumental contents are on page 220. Happy to chat about the possibilities! theses.gla.ac.uk/76280/1/1383...

Hi Sonya, I can check the contents for this and think I might know but it’ll have to wait til tomorrow. Would love to hear more about your research!

“Whether buried in the blackhouses of Lewis or the shuttered shipyards of Glasgow, Scotland’s mysteries speak to specific legacies which have shaped the land- & cityscapes that house its crimes”

THE BOTTLE IMP goes on the trail of Scottish crime writing…
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I am happy with this gift ☕️🍴👻

Hands down one of my favourite conferences ever! Congratulations to @misswalsingham.bsky.social and the FEATHERS team for such an excellent project and for showing us all such a good time in a beautiful place. I’m left feeling inspired and uplifted – thanks to all involved!

A braw post doc with the IASH and NMS in Edinburgh, examining the connections between Poland, Scandinavia or the Netherlands. Applications need to be in by the 25th April 2025.

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I've considered editing it down into an article (or two?), but I could never muster the enthusiasm to return to the project. Perhaps now is the time? Well, not now but post-PhD...?

It's hard to believe that I completed my MPhil three years ago now. For reasons I can't remember, I opted to have it embargoed...but today, it's lifted! If anyone is interested in the literary legacy of the first secular song book printed in Scotland (1662) then this is your lucky day! 🎶

The Scottish History Society 2025 Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM is on Saturday 29th March! We had a fantastic time last year hearing about research so join us for a great day of papers and discussion. Free to members, £5 non-members.
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The Beach by Kathleen Jamie Now this big westerly's blown itself out, let's drive to the storm beach. A few brave souls will be there already, eyeing the driftwood, the heaps of frayed blue polyprop rope, cut loose, thrown back at us – What a species – still working the same curved bay, all of us hoping for the marvellous, all hankering for a changed life.

Now this big westerly’s
blown itself out,
let’s drive to the storm beach…

—Kathleen Jamie, “The Beach”
Published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012
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It is Hogmanay in 1944. Granpaw receives a telegram in the close of 10 Glebe Street. Chaos ensues with the Broons quarrelling about who their first foot should be. The rival first foots form a queue at the Broons' door. Then, Granpaw appears with Hen and Joe, who have been given leave from the army. He intercepted a telegram, mind? A final, sublimely couthy, ensemble frame shows the family and their friends celebrating. *moist eyes*

The Broons story for the Hogmanay of 1944 is a masterpiece of Scots art which surpasses anything by Raeburn, Naysmith or the Colourists. This is a hill that I will die upon.

Tune in this evening to www.nts.live at 9pm to spice up your Daft Days with a neoclassicism/strum and drang/baroque mix 🎻🎶

You see 5 symbols used by Hernando Colón in his library catalogue. The images of this thread are from J.M. Pérez Fernández / E. Wilson-Lee: Hernando Colón's New World of Books" (2021).

If you ever thought that searching a library catalogue is complicated, be reminded: this is how a book (in manuscript or print) in octavo with five pages or more and less than ten was categorized in a sixteenth-century European collection (from Hernando Colón).

A 🧵 for #earlymodern #bookhistory

It was such a privilege to present a paper at ‘Scotland’s Manuscripts: Making and Finding’ in Edinburgh last week. Many thanks so much to the team for their hard work in organising and delivering such a brilliant conference! 📜

100+ archives & library special collections accounts have now joined Bluesky!

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CONFERENCE: SRS 11th Biennial Conference | MEMOs The University of Bristol is delighted to welcome the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference back to Bristol in July 2025.

CONFERENCE: SRS 11th Biennial Conference | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents

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Hi all, I've made a starter park of historians of the body - please shout if you'd like to be added/removed. I was in a rush so haven't added everyone yet! go.bsky.app/T5KnJ51 🗃️

Hello, I work on early modern women’s manuscript culture including recipe books and medical texts – focussing on fertility at the moment. Could I be added if possible? Thanks!

🚨 #Skystorians: @cambridgeup.bsky.social, publisher of 'Renaissance Quarterly', has "temporarily enabled free access to all articles published since the 1st of January 2023; this will continue for all new articles published through the 31st of December this year" 🗃️ #EarlyModern
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Recent updates, new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, prizes, and much much more... It's December's EMoDiR Newsletter!

Compiled by @martinamampieri.bsky.social and Francesco Quatrini, you can find it here:

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Thank you, Rhona! It was great fun to write 🍎

Chuffed to have a piece (🥪) amongst great company in the latest issue of The Bottle Imp. Give it a read if you’re *hungry* for food and poetry in medieval and early modern Scotland 🍓🍰🍎🥕🍯 (apologies, food puns are too tempting)

Many thanks! ☺️