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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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 2d

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 5d

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️

Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
👇👇👇

@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (111286-0126) - University of Warwick

Title: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (111286-0126). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 6d

Portrait of a Lady possibly of the Buccleuch Family, n.d., by #KatherineRead (or #CatherineRead; Scottish, 1723-1778), who was born #otd, Feb 3. Held by The Rhodes Trust, Oxford; source, "Finding Catherine Read," by Adam Busiakiewicz, artherstory.net/finding-cath... #artherstory #womenartists

An 18th-century portrait of a white woman, facing the right edge of the painting. Much of her brown hair is visible under a white cap draped with pearls. She wears a scoop-necked white dress under a light blue drape, fastened at the right shoulder with a metallic clasp decorated with a pearl that matches a similar embellishment at the center front of the white dress.

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U of G McLaughlin Library @uofglibrary.bsky.social · 10d

Applications for the Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership (S-CAP) visiting research fellowships are now being accepted. Visit the University of Guelph and utilize our extensive Scottish Studies Collection – one of the largest outside the UK. Deadline: March 1, 2026.
Learn more: uoguel.ph/s-cap.

Promotional image for the Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership Visiting Research Fellowship. The graphic includes an image of a castle on an island with rolling hills and mountains in the distance. The image is from U of G's Scottish Studies Collection.

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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 12d

JOB! Lecturer in early medieval history at my lovely once and future department! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

Lecturer in Early Medieval History | King's College London

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 12d

A couple of new open-access titles of possible interest to scholars of medieval Europe -- this one on merchants, legal pluralism, and predictability in commerce: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde... #MedievalSky

Cover image for "How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism: Merchants and their Interaction in Late Medieval Europe," edited by Gregor Rohmann and Ulla Kypta.

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 12d

JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...

Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800) at British Library

Explore an exciting academic career as a Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 13d

On Holocaust Memorial Day, we’re sharing the story of Jane Haining, a Scottish missionary who refused to abandon the children in her care and died in Auschwitz.
Read the blog by Shona Paget here:
womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/01/27/j...

#HolocaustMemorialDay #JaneHaining #WomensHistory

Black and white portrait photo of Jane Haining. She wears wire frame glasses, a beaded necklace and has short curled hair.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 15d

Calling History of Fam folks! UL are hiring an Assistant Professor in Irish History with specialism in #HistFam to cover a period of leave. I'm not on the panel but happy to informally answer qs about the MA HoF programme to anyone interested www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE158/a...

Assistant Professor in Irish History at University of Limerick

Apply for the Assistant Professor in Irish History role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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TheSnarkyFarmer @thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social · 18d

Fun read
#TheOutpost 🌱🌿👨‍🌾☠️🦜
Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Indigenous People Shared Their Knowledge of New Zealand's Plants With Captain Cook's Crew www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...

Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Indigenous People Shared Their Knowledge of New Zealand's Plants With Captain Cook's Crew

Long-overlooked documents housed at London's Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between 18th-century European botanists and their Indigenous counterparts

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Protests and Suffragettes @scotsuffragette.bsky.social · 19d

📆 ON THIS DAY: Eunice Murray MBE was born in 1878.

An exceptional public speaker who toured the UK by caravan, spreading the word about women’s rights and the Suffrage movement. Eunice was also the first Scottish Woman to stand for election to Parliament.

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 21d

Decent image of Eleanor Rykener's court record now up on Wikimedia Commons, with CC BY 4.0 license. Use with wild abandon for talks, seminars, all the good queer & trans history stuff

#MedievalSky 🗃️

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Co...

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 25d

🚨Call for Papers🚨

We are thrilled to issue a call for papers for our annual conference on 28th March 2026

We'd love to hear about the amazing sources you are using and can't wait to spend the day talking all things Scottish History 💙

Submit a proposal:
scottishhistorysociety.com/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers: ‘The Sources of Scottish History’, SHS Conference 2026

scottishhistorysociety.com

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · Jan 5

Designed by John Brash of Glasgow, it was built in 1809 and is the 3rd church to be built on this spot since the Reformation. Evidence suggests Christian usage since at least 1252.

Read more at 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/irvin...

🧵2/2

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The Carrying Stream @thecarryingstream.bsky.social · Jan 4

The Carrying Stream is a new podcast for Scottish words and ideas – long-form conversations with writers, scholars, poets and artists. 🎙️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Episode 0 is now live, alongside the first three full conversations.

pod.link/1865430519

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · Dec 26

Scottish mathematician, astronomer & polymath Mary Somerville was born #OTD in 1780. #WomenInSTEM

William Whewell coined the term "scientist" in a review of Somerville's book, 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴. Used as gender-neutral term as the common term at the time was "man of science."

An oil portrait painting of Mary Somerville, the renowned 19th-century Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and science writer, by Thomas Phillips (1834). She is depicted as a poised woman in her fifties, facing slightly to the left with a calm, intelligent expression. Her dark hair is elegantly styled, parted in the center and drawn up into intricate braids with soft ringlets framing each side of her face. She wears a formal dark blue or black off-the-shoulder gown with puffed sleeves, draped in a luxurious brown fur stole over her shoulders. A wide, elaborate white lace ruff collar frames her neck, and at the center of her chest is a prominent emerald-green brooch set in gold, fastened to the gathered fabric. The background is a dramatic, dark gradient with subtle warm highlights, employing chiaroscuro lighting to emphasize her serene face and the textures of lace, fur, and fabric, evoking a sense of dignified intellect and refinement typical of Regency-era portraiture.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · Dec 26

And the thing I’m most proud of doesn’t have a link to share yet, but it’s almost done! I’ve been leading a time of computer scientists and medievalists to create an HCR for Medieval Latin legal records, like those digitized at AALT (example below).

A screenshot of the model which includes the manuscript on the right and the extracted text on the left.

Reposted by Kris Inwood, Wilson McLeod, Elizabeth Ewan

Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · Dec 23

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 · Dec 23

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 · Dec 23

some great stories here!

Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · Dec 22

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 · Dec 23

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 · Dec 22

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 · Dec 22

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

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · Dec 22

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 · Dec 21

Ctl+F this

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · Dec 21

Ctl+F this

Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social · Dec 21

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 · Dec 21

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 · Dec 20

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 · Dec 19

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 · Dec 19

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/ .

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