Dr Leith Davis
@drleith.bsky.social
English Prof @SFUenglish; Director @sfuscottishstudies; #18thc.; early #19thc; #bookhistory; #culturalmemory; early #circus; amateur #trad musician
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Happy Week-end reading 💪
Brought by @drleith.bsky.social @funkyplaid.bsky.social and many others I know 👍
Brought by @drleith.bsky.social @funkyplaid.bsky.social and many others I know 👍
October 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Happy Week-end reading 💪
Brought by @drleith.bsky.social @funkyplaid.bsky.social and many others I know 👍
Brought by @drleith.bsky.social @funkyplaid.bsky.social and many others I know 👍
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Congratulations to @drleith.bsky.social and Kevin James for this wonderful volume and for inviting me to write about spies.
September 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Congratulations to @drleith.bsky.social and Kevin James for this wonderful volume and for inviting me to write about spies.
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Coming from @edinburghup.bsky.social
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks
Ed. by @drleith.bsky.social & Kevin J. James
Exploring Jacobitism & its cultural legacy, analysing works in English, Irish & Scottish Gaelic, & Scots
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Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks
Ed. by @drleith.bsky.social & Kevin J. James
Exploring Jacobitism & its cultural legacy, analysing works in English, Irish & Scottish Gaelic, & Scots
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
edinburghuniversitypress.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Coming from @edinburghup.bsky.social
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks
Ed. by @drleith.bsky.social & Kevin J. James
Exploring Jacobitism & its cultural legacy, analysing works in English, Irish & Scottish Gaelic, & Scots
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks
Ed. by @drleith.bsky.social & Kevin J. James
Exploring Jacobitism & its cultural legacy, analysing works in English, Irish & Scottish Gaelic, & Scots
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
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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.
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Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
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July 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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At long last, the new collection edited by @drleith.bsky.social and Kevin James is now up for pre-order, and it's 30% with the code NEW30. My chapter on Jacobite witness networks and government information management appears alongside a wonderful collection of esteemed historians and scholars.
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
edinburghuniversitypress.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
At long last, the new collection edited by @drleith.bsky.social and Kevin James is now up for pre-order, and it's 30% with the code NEW30. My chapter on Jacobite witness networks and government information management appears alongside a wonderful collection of esteemed historians and scholars.
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Introduction to Digital Humanities – book now!
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Online participants can access recordings of the whole course and keynote talks. Ideal for all time zones!
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@jarona7.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
@aadh.bsky.social
#IntroDH
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Online participants can access recordings of the whole course and keynote talks. Ideal for all time zones!
@david.deroure.org
@jarona7.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
@aadh.bsky.social
#IntroDH
June 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Introduction to Digital Humanities – book now!
tinyurl.com/5d5y84c6
Online participants can access recordings of the whole course and keynote talks. Ideal for all time zones!
@david.deroure.org
@jarona7.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
@aadh.bsky.social
#IntroDH
tinyurl.com/5d5y84c6
Online participants can access recordings of the whole course and keynote talks. Ideal for all time zones!
@david.deroure.org
@jarona7.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
@aadh.bsky.social
#IntroDH
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This year, DHOxSS is proud to be sponsored by Google Books, Gale Cengage and Transkribus!
About our sponsors: tinyurl.com/y4rmhpxu
Spaces are still available on our two online courses - book now!
@transkribus.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
#DHOxSS2025
#digitalhumanities
About our sponsors: tinyurl.com/y4rmhpxu
Spaces are still available on our two online courses - book now!
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@discoxford.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
#DHOxSS2025
#digitalhumanities
June 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This year, DHOxSS is proud to be sponsored by Google Books, Gale Cengage and Transkribus!
About our sponsors: tinyurl.com/y4rmhpxu
Spaces are still available on our two online courses - book now!
@transkribus.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
#DHOxSS2025
#digitalhumanities
About our sponsors: tinyurl.com/y4rmhpxu
Spaces are still available on our two online courses - book now!
@transkribus.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
#DHOxSS2025
#digitalhumanities
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...
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Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
edinburghuniversitypress.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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...
@EdinburghUP
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
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. You can pre-order a copy now with @EdinburghUP! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
edinburghuniversitypress.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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. You can pre-order a copy now with @EdinburghUP! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
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"Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free..."
Langston Hughes
#July4th
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free..."
Langston Hughes
#July4th
July 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free..."
Langston Hughes
#July4th
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free..."
Langston Hughes
#July4th
Super excited to report that Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks, the volume that Kevin James and I co-edited, is now available for pre-order.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present
edinburghuniversitypress.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Super excited to report that Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks, the volume that Kevin James and I co-edited, is now available for pre-order.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
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Shout out to the INS staff @thinkuhi.bsky.social HISA awards....Highly Commended Most Inspiring Lecturer Dr Paul Malgrati and nominated Above & Beyond Staff Award Dr Andrew Lind.
July 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Shout out to the INS staff @thinkuhi.bsky.social HISA awards....Highly Commended Most Inspiring Lecturer Dr Paul Malgrati and nominated Above & Beyond Staff Award Dr Andrew Lind.
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***SANAS OBRACH | JOB AD*** Celtic & Gaelic at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is advertising a full-time, fixed-term lectureship in #CelticStudies. Application deadline: 23 July. I'd be delighted to chat to anyone considering an application - my email is in the ad www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Lecturer in Celtic Studies (R&T)
College of Arts & HumanitiesSchool of Humanities Lecturer in Celtic Studies (R&T)Vacancy Ref: 177172Salary, Grade 7, £40,497 - £45,413 per annum. The University of Glasgow is seeking to app...
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July 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
***SANAS OBRACH | JOB AD*** Celtic & Gaelic at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is advertising a full-time, fixed-term lectureship in #CelticStudies. Application deadline: 23 July. I'd be delighted to chat to anyone considering an application - my email is in the ad www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
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We had great fun working on this. So many gems in this extraordinary archive! @tailteeireann.bsky.social
Abstracts of wills like these can be explored in the new Registry of Deeds curated collection, curated by Dr Patrick Walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social and Dr Brendan Twomey, in partnership with @tailteeireann.bsky.social
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July 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We had great fun working on this. So many gems in this extraordinary archive! @tailteeireann.bsky.social
Happy to report that Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising is now available in a (much more affordable) paperback edition. Thank you Cambridge University Press! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
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July 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Happy to report that Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising is now available in a (much more affordable) paperback edition. Thank you Cambridge University Press! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
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@lyoninmourning.bsky.social would like to congratulate Dr. Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society!
June 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
@lyoninmourning.bsky.social would like to congratulate Dr. Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society!
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Many thanks to McGill & Don Nerbas @csschair.bsky.social for hosting the 2025 Colloquium of the St. Andrew’s Society/McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies. Fascinating presentations by @drleith.bsky.social & Kevin James, as well as scholars from Dawson College & McGill.
May 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Many thanks to McGill & Don Nerbas @csschair.bsky.social for hosting the 2025 Colloquium of the St. Andrew’s Society/McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies. Fascinating presentations by @drleith.bsky.social & Kevin James, as well as scholars from Dawson College & McGill.
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Did you miss the IASSL webinar 'Environmental Scotland III' on Wednesday? The recording is now available on our YouTube channel! Dana Graham Lai (Simon Fraser University) on Ellen Johnston and Alex Dick (University of British Columbia) on Walter Scott.
Environmental Scotland III
YouTube video by IASSL
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May 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Did you miss the IASSL webinar 'Environmental Scotland III' on Wednesday? The recording is now available on our YouTube channel! Dana Graham Lai (Simon Fraser University) on Ellen Johnston and Alex Dick (University of British Columbia) on Walter Scott.
Heads up re: the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Société canadienne d’études du dix-huitième siècle 2025 Conference: Trans/Formations: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries in Regina/Oskana, Saskatchewan 15-18 October, 2025
May 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Heads up re: the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Société canadienne d’études du dix-huitième siècle 2025 Conference: Trans/Formations: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries in Regina/Oskana, Saskatchewan 15-18 October, 2025
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Explore the AHA’s Resource Library, with hundreds of resources developed or vetted by the AHA and our partners. Our resources range from classroom syllabi, to archival documents from the Civil War, to standards and guidelines for the discipline, and more. 🗃️
AHA Resource Library - AHA
Explore All Resources Search Resource Type Thematic AHA Topics Geographic K-12 Education Undergraduate Education Graduate Education Professional & Career Resources Academic Department Resources Histor...
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May 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Explore the AHA’s Resource Library, with hundreds of resources developed or vetted by the AHA and our partners. Our resources range from classroom syllabi, to archival documents from the Civil War, to standards and guidelines for the discipline, and more. 🗃️
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Please consider submitting a chapter abstract for our edited collection, Queering the Tensions of Empire.
Abstracts due: 31 May 2025.
Deets here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Abstracts due: 31 May 2025.
Deets here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire | H-Net
Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire (edited collection)Beginning in the late 20th century, scholars influenced by postcolonial and feminist theory and social and cultural history began to...
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April 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Please consider submitting a chapter abstract for our edited collection, Queering the Tensions of Empire.
Abstracts due: 31 May 2025.
Deets here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Abstracts due: 31 May 2025.
Deets here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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6/10
“The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript, held by @natlibscot.bsky.social, contains conversations, narratives, poems, songs, letters & more, relating to the 1745 rising. From 2023: Prof @drleith.bsky.social discusses the @lyoninmourning.bsky.social project findings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s-...
“The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript, held by @natlibscot.bsky.social, contains conversations, narratives, poems, songs, letters & more, relating to the 1745 rising. From 2023: Prof @drleith.bsky.social discusses the @lyoninmourning.bsky.social project findings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s-...
Encoding and Analysing 'The Lyon in Mourning': Shedding New Light on the Jacobites
YouTube video by ASL
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April 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
6/10
“The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript, held by @natlibscot.bsky.social, contains conversations, narratives, poems, songs, letters & more, relating to the 1745 rising. From 2023: Prof @drleith.bsky.social discusses the @lyoninmourning.bsky.social project findings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s-...
“The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript, held by @natlibscot.bsky.social, contains conversations, narratives, poems, songs, letters & more, relating to the 1745 rising. From 2023: Prof @drleith.bsky.social discusses the @lyoninmourning.bsky.social project findings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s-...
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#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass made his seventh appearance in Paisley in less than six weeks, speaking at two meetings, at the West Relief Church, Canal St and the Secession Church, Abbey Close: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Paisley: 25 April 1846
Newspaper accounts of two public meetings addressed by Frederick Douglass in Paisley on 25 April 1846.
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April 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass made his seventh appearance in Paisley in less than six weeks, speaking at two meetings, at the West Relief Church, Canal St and the Secession Church, Abbey Close: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Five Fully Funded PhD Research Studentships- University of Hertfordshire - Centre for Future Societies Research #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT230/f...
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April 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Five Fully Funded PhD Research Studentships- University of Hertfordshire - Centre for Future Societies Research #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT230/f...
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I’ve written a piece for the NTS looking at forgeries in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum made by the prolific Edinburgh forger ‘Antique Smith’. Smith flooded the late-19thC collectibles market with fakes of major writers, incl. Burns, Byron, Dickens and Scott. 👇
www.nts.org.uk/collections/...
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Robert Burns: forgery and ‘Antique Smith’
Ronnie Young takes a look at the fascinating world of forgery and Burns manuscripts.
www.nts.org.uk
April 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I’ve written a piece for the NTS looking at forgeries in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum made by the prolific Edinburgh forger ‘Antique Smith’. Smith flooded the late-19thC collectibles market with fakes of major writers, incl. Burns, Byron, Dickens and Scott. 👇
www.nts.org.uk/collections/...
www.nts.org.uk/collections/...