Elizabeth Ewan

@kiritekatawa.bsky.social

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Scottish medieval and early modern gender historian, cat-lover and book-obsessed

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 2d

Can you help a local historian locate and map examples of historic Gaelic inscriptions on Scottish gravestones?

Read the latest blog on our website here that explains more about this interesting project 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/in-sear...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

The Art Nouveau embroidery of Ann Macbeth (1875 - 1948), Scottish artist and member of artistic group known as the Glasgow Girls #WomensArt

Symmetrical square embroidery piece with a stylised pink rose and foliage in each corner on a grey background

Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social · 3d

some great stories here!

Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 3d

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Alan Richardson, Julia M. Wright , and 2 more Fabián Muniesa, Alan Richardson, Julia M. Wright, Elizabeth Ewan, Juliet Johnson

Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 3d

I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 3d

New guest post on the #ArtHerstory blog!

Finding Catherine Read
by Adam Busiakiewicz
artherstory.net/finding-cath...

Here Adam presents information about the life and work of C18th British portrait painter Catherine Read, and also gives insight into the nature of art historical research!

Finding Catherine Read | An 18th-century British Painter

In his work with an auction house, Adam Busiakiewicz has come to know Catherine Read's work, and to rediscover some of her paintings.

artherstory.net

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Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 3d

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

Reposted by Steven High, Christine Kooi, Raúl Pacheco-Vega , and 1 more Steven High, Christine Kooi, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Elizabeth Ewan

Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 3d

I posted this👇 to a claim that genAI is better than Ctl+F to search historical docs. @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social replied with a genAI summary of my document and @bookllyfr.bsky.social asked if it was accurate.

It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵

Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 4d

Ctl+F this

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 4d

Ctl+F this

Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social · 4d

delighted to learn that some of the Rose of Kilravock medieval documents sold at auction this year are now at Nairn Museum and will be accessible to researchers in the future. Thanks to the Museum for acquiring and preserving them

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 4d

Queen of Hearts, 1909, painting by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864-1933), leading Art Nouveau and Glasgow School artist.

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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 6d

I have been puzzling over this for a while & thought that it might be worth opening out to the floor to hear some opinions.🙏
What is this medieval marginal figure doing?
They are clearly working with some kind of tool on fabric, cloth or skin... any thoughts on what the tool or process might be?🔎

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 6d

You can download a free digital version of Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen” from @gutenberg.org
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10049

Old Lady Mary: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Mrs. Oliphant

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

www.gutenberg.org

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Scottish Society for Northern Studies @northernstudies.bsky.social · 6d

We are thrilled to announce that Colleen Batey has officially published her long-awaited volume on The Earl's Bu at Orphir in Orkney.

They're currently taking pre-orders at the Orcadian bookshop:https://shop.orcadian.co.uk/product/signed-copy-pre-order-the-earl-s-bu-orphir/ .

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Kris Inwood, Elizabeth Ewan , and 1 more Lesley A. Hall, Kris Inwood, Elizabeth Ewan, Evan Roberts

UGuelph History Department @uguelphhist.bsky.social · 8d

We are hiring! The Department of History at the University of Guelph seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in History of the Middle East.

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 10d

Quick reminder of the Call for Papers for our @thinkuhi.bsky.social 'Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland Conference' being held at UHI Perth on 9-10 February 2026.
tinyurl.com/yvpe9cwr

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spurtle.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social · 10d

OWNERS ASSOCIATIONS MUST REFLECT CURRENT REALITIES.—More thoughts on potential legislation affecting Scottish tenement dwellers: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/owners-...
#Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #tenement @thebefs.bsky.social

1960s building showing signs of wear and tear.

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 11d

I know no-one wants to think about next term right now, but please remind students to book their places on the Latin palaeography online short courses at beginner or intermediate level taking place in February 👇 #MedievalSky 📖🧑‍💻👩‍💻👨🏽‍💻👩🏻‍💻🧑🏿‍💻🧑‍💻 📚

ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Introduction to Latin Palaeography

ies.sas.ac.uk

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 12d

At midday on the year’s midnight
into my mind came
I saw the new moon late yestreen
wi the auld moon in her airms…

—Liz Lochhead, “In the Mid-Midwinter”
published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Polygon 2016)
#poem #poetry #StLucysDay
birlinn.co.uk/product/fugi...

In the Mid-Midwinter
by Liz Lochhead

after John Donne's 'A Nocturnal on St Lucy's Day'

At midday on the year's midnight
into my mind came
I saw the new moon late yestreen
wi the auld moon in her airms
though, no,
there is no moon of course -
there's nothing very much of anything to speak of
in the sky except a gey dreich greyness
rain-laden over Glasgow and today
there is the very least of even this for us to get
but
the light comes back
the light always comes back
and this begins tomorrow with
however many minutes more of sun and serotonin.

Meanwhile
there will be the winter moon for us to love the longest,
fat in the frosty sky among the sharpest stars,
and lines of old songs we can't remember
why we know
or when first we heard them
will aye come back
once in a blue moon to us
unbidden

and bless us with their long-travelled light.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13d

Margaret Macdonald, The Three Perfumes, 1912, Glasgow School artist who was believed to have influenced Klimt #womensart

Stylised artwork featuring three white women in long patterned cloaks and dresses

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Melanie Simms, Elizabeth Ewan

Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 13d

I write a newspaper column about Scottish history, historians and heritage.

I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?

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Sheila Kidd @sheilamkidd.bsky.social · 16d

Delighted to see my article on Catrìona nighean Mhic Aonghais, a Mull-born poet living in Greenock, published in the new issue of Aiste clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 16d

“Quha wait gif all that Chauceir wrait was trew?”

The full text of Henryson’s TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID, with glosses, is available online here
#poem #poetry #medievalsky
metseditions.org/read/3eKdgKx...

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 17d

Just a quick reminder of our free online seminar on Thursday 11th December 2025, 7pm.... 'Hidden in Plain Sight: Recovering Female Leadership in the Viking Age' by PhD candidate Shanna Bryman.

tinyurl.com/25zxwy46

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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 17d

1. Some manuscripts have real character.
They are often not the smartest, shiniest manuscripts, but rather the ones that have seen things. The manuscripts that have really been used (and abused). Today I spent the day with a very charismatic manuscript at the NLS, Edinburgh...🧵

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Candy “Kane” Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 18d

My new memoir ‘Phone Charger: My Life Walking to the Bedroom to Fetch Something But Forgetting What It Was By the Time I Get There, Then Walking Back To See If Anything in the Front Room Jogs My Memory, Then Repeating It to Myself While I Walk Back to the Bedroom’ is out next year.

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 20d

⏰ Time is running out! Submit your 8–10k word essay for the Leah Leneman Prize by 22 Dec 2025. Open to students & independent scholars working on women’s or gender history.

Share widely 🔗
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

womenshistoryscotland.org

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UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 21d

For #EYAInclusion, we’ve been looking at the records of Queen Margaret College, a higher education institution for women that joined with the University of Glasgow in 1892. The records are a fascinating resource for anyone interested in the history of women’s education in Scotland.
DC 233/2/22/2/63

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Ebba Strutzenbladh @ebbastrutzenbladh.bsky.social · 21d

Some medieval mothers struggled to gain custody of their children upon widowhood. My short story “In Her Keeping” is inspired by an Aberdonian custody case, now in print thanks to Causeway Magazine + mentorship by @vickymackenzie.bsky.social

A story from my @sgsah.bsky.social internship.

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Russell Newton @drrussellnewton.bsky.social · 22d

Delighted that a copy of Nathan Hood’s first monograph arrived in the post today! Nathan’s work to date on emotions in early modern Scotland has been outstanding. I am sure this is going to be great too and I can’t wait to read it.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 23d

The Society currently invites applications for its David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People.

The Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj

Closing date: Friday 6 March 2026 #Skystorians

David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People - RHS

Launched in 2023, the David Berry Fellowship provides an annual award of up to £2,500 to undertake research on the history of Scotland and the Scottish people worldwide. Applications for the 2026 Fell...

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