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A Community-Based Transcription of the Records of the Kirkwall Incorporation of Tailors, 1669-1772; Project Lead: Dr Aaron Allen

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Woman sewing, c. 1650-55

Attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (British Museum)

06.10.2025 21:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

30% DISCOUNT with code NEW30! Shaping Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks is a multi-disciplinary exploration of Jacobitism and its cultural legacy with chapters considering #Jacobites from the 1688 Revolution to #Outlander.
@EdinburghUP
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

08.07.2025 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Revealing Life in a 13thC Scottish Castle Objects including brooches and dress pins were excavated alongside animal bones and crucibles โ€“ small ceramic cups used to melt copper alloy, silver and gold. Traces of precious metals found in theโ€ฆ

Revealing Life in a 13thC Scottish Castle theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/02/r...

02.10.2025 06:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SCA ANNUAL CONFERENCE OPEN FOR BOOKINGS! - Scottish Council on Archives 01 October 2025

SCOTLANDโ€™S ARCHIVES AND RECORDS: CELEBRATING SUCCESS

SCA is excited to open bookings for its next annual conference on Thursday 20th November in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.

Find out more and book via: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/sca-a...

01.10.2025 11:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The final talk in the second of Royal Marriages Summit series bit.ly/4lifqMO will be delivered by Dr Michael Pearce who will be discussing the marriage of James V of Scotland to Marie of Guise โ€“ an important part of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France.

27.09.2025 09:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fantastic! Thank you!

27.09.2025 10:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amazing for both! Where is the painting from?

27.09.2025 02:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So I bought an old pitcher, and discover two authentic storage options; suspended, or upside-down on a shelf, from the 'Augsburger Klebealbum', heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/view...

26.09.2025 22:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amen to that!

26.09.2025 18:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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(2/2) But โ€“ it appears our Kirkwall tailor also was selling (?) a golf club and two balls; a ream of paper; and books: 6 copies of Proverbs and 2 copies of the Psalms. His inventory was worth over ยฃ102 Scots. #KirkwallTailorsProject

26.09.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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(1/2) The inventory of one of our Kirkwall tailors in 1650: inter alia, 3 kistis; a pint stoup; a chair; a furnished bed; lint & woollen spinning wheels; silk; French ribbons; cloth, including buckram; papers of pins; thimbles and lots of buttonsโ€ฆ #KirkwallTailorsProject

26.09.2025 18:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#palaeography help please! Is this an ampersand squeezed it with the โ€˜||โ€™ insertion mark? โ€˜& aneโ€™?

24.09.2025 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Step Back in Time at Kirbuster Farm Museum Kirbuster Farm Museum is run by Orkney Islands Council and is free to visit, however, if you want to make a contribution towards its upkeep you can make a donation. Kirbuster Museum was opened to tโ€ฆ

Step Back in Time at Kirbuster Farm Museum theorkneynews.scot/2025/09/23/s...

23.09.2025 07:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tailorโ€™s โ€˜gooseโ€™ iron from Gouda, Netherlands.

16.09.2025 15:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This would be fantastic for displaying the medieval mining landscapes at Newbattle Abbey or the Heugh at Tranentโ€ฆ FAO @1722waggonway.bsky.social

16.09.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979

Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979

Cap #artbots #themet
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/98823

13.09.2025 12:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cover designs for 'The Mechanics of Biological Materials, ' Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' and 'Public Law and the UK Supreme Court'

Cover designs for 'The Mechanics of Biological Materials, ' Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' and 'Public Law and the UK Supreme Court'

Catz academics in print: 'The Mechanics of Biological Materials' co-ed by Prof. John Morton (1968, Engrng), 'Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social (2014, English) & a chapter in 'Public Law & the UK Supreme Court' by @profmarkelliott.bsky.social (1999)

13.09.2025 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you, but @michaelpearce.bsky.social got it! Itโ€™s โ€˜Indeโ€™

13.09.2025 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Any tips on good literature on them?

12.09.2025 21:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well done Dr Pearce! Thatโ€™s it! Thank you again!

12.09.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Three - and counting!

12.09.2025 19:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Might just have to check that one out!

12.09.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the first page of Hilary Taylor, 'The gendered dynamics of violence in English apprenticeship: apprenticesโ€™ petitions to the Middlesex and Westminster Sessions, c. 1690โ€“1830'

Abstract: This article offers the first systematic analysis of the role that violence played in the management of apprentices, and the gendered dynamics of violence in English apprenticeship more broadly. It does so through an examination of 195 petitions that apprentices or their supporters submitted to the Middlesex and Westminster Sessions, which sought the cancellation of their indentures on grounds of โ€˜immoderate correctionโ€™. It offers a quantitative overview of the surviving petitions, examining the proportion that featured allegations of violence, the terms and level of detail in which violence was described, and its relationship to apprenticesโ€™ other stated grievances. It moves on to reconstruct the factors that could prompt masters and mistresses to mete out correction (as well as their commentaries on their perceived right to do so) and the tactics that petitioners used in crafting their complaints to legal authorities. Although female apprentices complained about violence at a disproportionate rate to their male peers, the material considered here suggests that their petitions did so in comparatively formulaic and restricted terms. The final section considers what implications this might have for our understandings of violence, gender and apprenticeship, and a genre of document โ€“ the petition โ€“ that provides access to these issues.

Screenshot of the first page of Hilary Taylor, 'The gendered dynamics of violence in English apprenticeship: apprenticesโ€™ petitions to the Middlesex and Westminster Sessions, c. 1690โ€“1830' Abstract: This article offers the first systematic analysis of the role that violence played in the management of apprentices, and the gendered dynamics of violence in English apprenticeship more broadly. It does so through an examination of 195 petitions that apprentices or their supporters submitted to the Middlesex and Westminster Sessions, which sought the cancellation of their indentures on grounds of โ€˜immoderate correctionโ€™. It offers a quantitative overview of the surviving petitions, examining the proportion that featured allegations of violence, the terms and level of detail in which violence was described, and its relationship to apprenticesโ€™ other stated grievances. It moves on to reconstruct the factors that could prompt masters and mistresses to mete out correction (as well as their commentaries on their perceived right to do so) and the tactics that petitioners used in crafting their complaints to legal authorities. Although female apprentices complained about violence at a disproportionate rate to their male peers, the material considered here suggests that their petitions did so in comparatively formulaic and restricted terms. The final section considers what implications this might have for our understandings of violence, gender and apprenticeship, and a genre of document โ€“ the petition โ€“ that provides access to these issues.

What can petitions to magistrates from London apprentices tell us about gendered violence in #EarlyModern England?

New addition from Hilary Taylor to the #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography:
petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

12.09.2025 10:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Say, that looks like an interesting document!

12.09.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Interesting items in this Kirkwall tailor's 1650 inventory: Silk, French thread and bolts of 'camelhair' cloth! What is the last word in the entry though? #palaeography #skystorians

12.09.2025 16:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

... and the archives of the Secretary of the 1889 Tailors' Strike Committee are held here!

Lithuania-born William Wess emigrated to London in 1880, aged 20, & quickly became a central figure in radical politics in the capital, co-founding/organising trade unions, political & educational groups... ๐Ÿงต

26.08.2025 16:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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For more on tailorsโ€™ candlesticks and early modern lighting generally, see:
www.academia.edu/42120239/Pro...

08.09.2025 11:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tailorsโ€™ candlesticks, seventeenth century, as recorded in the PSAS ( @socantscot.bsky.social ). Note the larger depression for an oil lamp with candle sockets in the corners. journals.socantscot.org/index.php/ps...

08.09.2025 11:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A copper-alloy pin found on archaeological excavations of an eighteenth-century Waggonway at Cockenzie. A common object for tailors like those of Kirkwall as well.

06.09.2025 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#Skystorians, in the category of weird questions:
I'm looking for primary & secondary sources on the social/cultural understanding or perception of worms and snails in the #EarlyModern period.
(N.B. I'm not looking for how worms were classified "scientifically"). Does anyone have suggestions? ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ

06.09.2025 05:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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