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#OTD (8th August) 1539, Edward and Robert Creicthoun, priests of the diocese of Glasgow, made supplication to Pope Paul III in Rome to be able to ‘recite the canonical hours, nocturns and other divine offices according to the newest use’. www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

#OTD (7th August) 1695, Patrick and Thomas Coutts, merchants in London, took burgesship in Edinburgh, gratis, highlighting the trading relationship between Scotland and England on the eve of the Union. www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

Collecting The Most Beautiful Books - August Talk Join us on Friday 22nd August for an incredible evening delving into the Bute Collection at Mount Stuart's rare collection of bookbindings!

Collecting The Most Beautiful Books
22 Aug, Rothesay – £8.50–£11

Kelsey Jackson Williams explores armorial bookbindings in the Bute Collection & tells the story of an exceptional but unknown assemblage of book-art in the Mount Stuart libraries
#BookHistory
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The Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: new Camden volume published - RHS The Society is very pleased to announced publication of its latest Camden series volume: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler. This vol...

New: 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' bit.ly/4mtRQgS

The Society's latest Camden volume of primary sources presents the 115 holograph letters of Margaret Tudor. This new edition, by Helen Newsome-Chandler, is an unprecedented epistolary archive 1/2 #Skystorians

Watch online: Anna Groundwater: Finding Scotland’s Place in World History From Mon 18 Aug - Though small in landmass, Scotland and her people have had a mighty impact on the world over many centuries. In Connecting Scotland's History, Anna Groundwater demonstrates the richn...

Talking ‘Finding Scotland’s Place in World History’ #EdBookFest celebrating new edition of 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
📍Venue T, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 18 August ⏰ 11am
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#EIBF #EdBookFest #scottishhistory #Scotland #history #timeline

🌟Student Spotlight!

MA candidate Megan is researching the later Scottish Covenanting Movement, looking at testimonies, letters, last words, diaries and life writings to find emotional patterns that would have affected how these women performed and embodied gender. 📖

@uguelphhist.bsky.social

#OTD (6th Aug.) 1571: a letter was read at the General Assembly in Stirling from John Knox, who was forced to flee the Marian Civil War, but too frail to travel to Stirling. His letter warned against the ‘merciless devourers of the patrimony of the Kirk.’ www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/

#OTD (14th July 1408) in the CSS to C. VII & B. XIII of Avignon, 1378-1419, we find swapping of benefices due to a vacancy created when William de Lauder was elevated to the See of Glasgow, so long as he resigned the Canonry of Dunkeld and Prebendary of Russill. www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

The Book of Deer, a pocket gospel-book, lying open.

July 11: Feast of Drostan († early C7th), founder-abbot of the Pictish monastery of Deir (Deer). Several dedications to him in NE Scotland including Episcopal church at Old Deer. The old church at Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, claimed his relics. Also Dec 15. The C10th Book of Deer #medievalsky

Pretty thrilled to be doing this at #EdinburghBookFest celebrating new edition of 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 💃

📍EFI Venue T, Edinburgh Futures Institute
📆 18 August ⏰ 11am
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#EIBF #EdinburghWhatsOn #EdinburghBookFest #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival #EIBF25

#OTD (11th July 1728) William Dickson, wright (carpenter) at Cockenzie, recorded that his week’s work for the Winton Estate was only two days, suggesting a patchwork of employment for different employers. www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

#OTD in Margaret Sanderson’s Galston Kirk Session Register: ‘Upone Sundaye quhilk wes the 9 daye of Julii 1570 wes baptisit Jonet Smyth dohter to Andro Smyth in Darvell. Johne Smyth and Murdoch Dickis witnesses.’ www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

The full page (Edinburgh City Archives, ED008/1/1, f3r):

#palaeography help please! What is thus contraction mark? It looks like a capital I like on Item or It. Ibidem? It’s from 1551 from the Edinburgh Hammermen: ‘…be our soverane and proveist and baillies of I[ ] this burght’ Ibid would fit?

EXCITING NEWS!
More to come on this soon, but we're very pleased to announce that we'll be picking up our trowels again in September!

Some of Mary, Queen of Scots' French archers: Andrew 'Feriare archar of the garde in Linlithgow' (and later keeper of the palace), and Captain Belloc whose domestic arrangements with Jonet Leddell in the Canongate were closely scrutinised by the Kirk Session. (NRS E30/11 f.13r and CH2/122/181 )

Crofters and cottars and lairds, oh my!

Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2

#skystorians - help please with a possibly French surname: '...to Nicolas [Langlouvay?] in France...' Any ideas? #palaeography

Well, I've got another one - help please! What is the surname and what is the place name (possibly in Peeblesshire)?

Item be Johne [Mcmaschelo? Mcinaschelo?] in [Multer Myln?] iij li xiij s

#palaeography

The front cover of the Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, queen of Scots (1489-1541).

It’s alive! Read more about my forthcoming edition of the holograph letters of Margaret Tudor, queen of Scots (1489-1541) @royalhistsoc.org: royalhistsoc.org/forthcoming-...

Help please with Scottish place name - where was William Fokkart? Glenquhoun?

Item be William Fockkart [in glenquhoun?]

Help please! What was Andro Moffett in? It definitely ends in a 'p'. #palaeography

Christian Aid booksale gifted tiny book by historian aged 11 A tiny hand-written book by a leading Scottish historian penned more than 70 years ago is among thousands of books donated to Edinburgh's Christian Aid book sale.

This weekend launches the big Christian Aid book sale in Edinburgh, and one of the regular organisers, @neildm.bsky.social, is prominently featured in this spotlight about Rosalind Mitchell's collection – and a remarkable relic that's being donated to @natlibscot.bsky.social from her library.

Our 2024 volume is still available! Edited by SRS council member and Dundee City Archivist Emeritus, Iain Flett, ‘The Protocol Book of Alexander Cok, 1567-1571’, records the business of the burgh court of Kirkcaldy, Fife. To join the Society or to buy a copy, see: scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

The Scottish Record Society publishes a wide range of Scottish records. For an #industrial history example, the Dickson Journals were published in collaboration with the 1722 WHG (@1722waggonway.bsky.social) to mark the 300th anniversary of Scotland's first railway, which carried coal. #Cockenzie

As part of our #Railway200 events, we're bringing back our pop-up bar at the Waggonway Shed - great beer in the rustic setting of our workshop at W Harbour Rd, Cockenzie.

Ace beers from Stewart Brewing and Traditional bar games like bagatelle & bar skittles and much more!

www.1722waggonway.co.uk

Text reading "Then we learned the method: which was to take an impression of the seal, then carefully to break it, and afterwards, first slightly heating the surface of the wax, to press the counterfeit stamp precisely as it had been done before, so that there was no alteration of position, nor outward appearance of any kind to show that the seal had been tampered with."

A major addition to the WS Society's Heritage Portfolio site today in the shape of @johockey.bsky.social 's essay "Minding Your Beeswax. Seals and Surveillance: The Post Office in the 19th Century" on an extraordinary episode of native espionage: www.wssociety-heritage.co.uk/seals-and-su...

Issue 29 was a cracker, issue 30 is looking great too! And there's still space for a few last-minute submissions! All you need to know, including how to online submit, at journals.ed.ac.uk/index.php/rosc

Any questions, email me at: valentina.bold@ed.ac.uk

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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Ayr: 24 March 1846 Newspaper account of public meeting addressed by Frederick Douglass in Ayr on 24 March 1846.

#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke again in Ayr, the church 'crowded in every part': www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

Welcome to all our new followers! The SRS, a scholarly publishing society, publishes critical editions of Scottish manuscript records, promoting global access. Each year a new volume comes out, with copies sent to our members. To join or to buy volumes:
www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/