The Scottish Record Society

New publications for 2025-2026! This year we have two (!) volumes, focussed on different islands: Arran (Arran Rentals, 1576-1780: accounts & testaments) and Australia (Life & Adventures of G. R. Nicoll, 1824-1901: travel journal of a Scottish shipwright/blockmaker) www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

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Thank you - that one seems to be the consensus! The superscript glyph looks like an ‘r’, so that must be it? Thank you!

Thank you - good to know you’re seeing a superscript ‘r’ as well… Merraman is a possibility!

It does look like an ‘m’ with a superscript ‘r’, doesn’t it?

#Museum30 theme 15 is #kindness. Thanks are accorded to all those who kindly gifted items over years to Dunblane Museum for its collection, many permanently on display, or in temporary exhibitions, or for access for research. Those who kindly donate when visiting the museum…/👇

Help please with #palaeography - what is Andro's surname? Or what word follows?

h/t @threadinburgh.scot for flagging up this new release about the medieval coal mine beneath the Forth. One day during some volunteer work at Culross Palace garden, we trudged out at low tide to see what we could see. It's still there, after all these hundreds of years.

'Scotland's oldest bakery' Alexander Taylor up for sale after 200 years Barry and Claire Taylor are the sixth generation to run Scotland's oldest bakery in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire.

'Scotland's oldest bakery' up for sale after 200 years www.bbc.com/news/article...

Villagers lose fight to stop ‘Sunset Song church’ being sold Arbuthnott church in Aberdeenshire that inspired the setting of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel is on the market for £45,000 after community attempts to save it fell through

Villagers lose fight to stop ‘Sunset Song church’ being sold

www.thetimes.com/article/9e72...

2025 Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History!

Catriona M.M. Macdonald, The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History. Edinburgh: John Donald, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., 2024. ISBN: 9780859767200.

Congratulations, Dr. Macdonald! 🏆🎉

Read the jury's citation: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/scottis...

Find out more about @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social's lecture on Wednesday 22 October 2025. We're thrilled to have her kick off our new Winter Lecture Series with 'Editing the Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)'

Register below!

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The amazing Isle of Arran Heritage Museum needs a new roof on one of its fantastic buildings! It’s a worthy cause! #Arran Please repost!

Help with #Latin #Palaeography please! What is this word beginning with d and ending in le?
'In dei nominie Amen per hoc praesens publicum Instrumentum Curatis pateat Evidentum quod anno Incarnationis d[inumerabi]le?? millesimo quingentesimo trigesimonono mensis vero Decembris die decimo sexto'??

Thanks for posting it - fantastic stone!

Is it not a baxter (baker)?

#OTD (9th Oct) 1538 - John Mathesoun, Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of Caithness (#Dornoch) asked that the Pope would grant him indult to use the divine office and canonical hours published by Francis, ‘cardinal priest of Sta Croce in Gerusalemme’. www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!

Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

‘The Wayfarer’ by Hieronymus Bosch

📢Call for Papers📢 ‘Folklore on the Move’: The Folklore Society’s annual conference 2026 in collaboration with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen. In person conference: 5-7 Jun 2026; online conference day: 10 Jun 2026. Proposal deadline 14 Dec www.folklore-society.com/event/call-f...

And two more clues (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) – can you guess the theme of this year’s SRS volume(s) now? {_ _ _ _ _ _ _}They range from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, and will, of course, be sent out to members, so why not join the Society? www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/

The SRS is a scholarly publishing society, taking transcriptions of Scottish manuscript records and publishing them to disseminate them around the world. Each year a new volume comes out, with copies sent to members. Why not join us?
www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/

And two more clues (Wikipedia Commons) – can you guess the theme of this year’s two (!) SRS volumes now? {I_ l _ n _ s} The volumes range from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, and will, of course, be sent out to members, so why not join the Society? www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/

#OTD (30 Sept) c.1717, #Cockenzie wright (carpenter) William Dickson recorded the well known mnemonic rhyme, ‘Thirty Days Hath September’, to help him record business transactions on the Winton Estate, such as building Scotland’s first (wooden) railway in 1722. www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

#OTD (30 Sept) 1528, John Foular, notary, registered a sasine for John Symson, heir to the late Michael Symson, burgess of #Edinburgh, for a land lying on the south side of the High Street, in the vennel of Forrester’s Wynd. Map: maps.nls.uk/towns/rec/211 SRS: www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

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 – an important part of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France.

The Maiden Brig, Newbattle

(2/2) But – 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 £102 Scots. #KirkwallTailorsProject

(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 buttons… #KirkwallTailorsProject