Geraldine (ginorgym)
@ginorgym.bsky.social
🎓part time Post grad (MPhil Res) Scottish Literature, University Of Glasgow, looking at the work of Edwin Muir, specifically Poor Tom.
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📚avid reader & self confessed Scottish Literature geek
👵Older than I look but not wiser 🤪
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📚avid reader & self confessed Scottish Literature geek
👵Older than I look but not wiser 🤪
Better days emerging!
February 14, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Better days emerging!
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February 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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Episode 4 is out: Scottish Folk and European Music with Kirsteen McCue, Professor of Scottish Literature and Song Culture at @glasgow.ac.uk We discuss the history of Scottish folk music and particularly its influence on the birth of modern music — from Beethoven to Bob Dylan. 🎼🏴
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February 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Episode 4 is out: Scottish Folk and European Music with Kirsteen McCue, Professor of Scottish Literature and Song Culture at @glasgow.ac.uk We discuss the history of Scottish folk music and particularly its influence on the birth of modern music — from Beethoven to Bob Dylan. 🎼🏴
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February 7, 2026 at 1:48 PM
My turn to edit!!! Looking forward to it!
It has been a morning of checking quotes … !
February 5, 2026 at 9:25 AM
It has been a morning of checking quotes … !
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January may be out but our #BurnsSupper225 global survey remains open for submissions!
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February 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
January may be out but our #BurnsSupper225 global survey remains open for submissions!
Thank you to all who have submitted so far; we’re delighted to have captured 200+ events already spanning 7 continents - but there’s plenty of room for more!
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Thank you to all who have submitted so far; we’re delighted to have captured 200+ events already spanning 7 continents - but there’s plenty of room for more!
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Seems an appropriate day to be reading this. Massie’s introduction made me rethink my literary critical skills. When you have to develop a confident argument for and against his introduction to Muir’s Scott and Scotland, you realise how far you still have to go.
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February 4, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Seems an appropriate day to be reading this. Massie’s introduction made me rethink my literary critical skills. When you have to develop a confident argument for and against his introduction to Muir’s Scott and Scotland, you realise how far you still have to go.
@alexmassie.bsky.social
@alexmassie.bsky.social
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CFP: 2026 Scottish Literature PG Symposium
(Mis)placing Scottish Literature
8 May 2026, University of Glasgow
Details: ucsl-scotland.com/2026-pg-symp...
Deadline 15 March, student travel bursaries available!
(Mis)placing Scottish Literature
8 May 2026, University of Glasgow
Details: ucsl-scotland.com/2026-pg-symp...
Deadline 15 March, student travel bursaries available!
February 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
CFP: 2026 Scottish Literature PG Symposium
(Mis)placing Scottish Literature
8 May 2026, University of Glasgow
Details: ucsl-scotland.com/2026-pg-symp...
Deadline 15 March, student travel bursaries available!
(Mis)placing Scottish Literature
8 May 2026, University of Glasgow
Details: ucsl-scotland.com/2026-pg-symp...
Deadline 15 March, student travel bursaries available!
Coffee, shortbread and Burns at Dad’s wonderful care home!
He even managed to recite all of tae a wee moosey (as one lovely lady kept saying)
@glasgowburns.bsky.social
He even managed to recite all of tae a wee moosey (as one lovely lady kept saying)
@glasgowburns.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Coffee, shortbread and Burns at Dad’s wonderful care home!
He even managed to recite all of tae a wee moosey (as one lovely lady kept saying)
@glasgowburns.bsky.social
He even managed to recite all of tae a wee moosey (as one lovely lady kept saying)
@glasgowburns.bsky.social
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A very happy Friday to all our new followers & subscribers. Our Burns Bletherings will finish on Monday with @hannahgrim02.bsky.social review of a great ‘everyday’ Burns book.
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January 23, 2026 at 10:31 AM
A very happy Friday to all our new followers & subscribers. Our Burns Bletherings will finish on Monday with @hannahgrim02.bsky.social review of a great ‘everyday’ Burns book.
Don’t forget to let @glasgowburns.bsky.social know how you are celebrating Burns! Check out
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Don’t forget to let @glasgowburns.bsky.social know how you are celebrating Burns! Check out
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I hear it's National Handwriting Day! My research relies on those individuals who spent most of their days with a pen in their hand and, presumably, ink all over their fingers. Thanks to the neat letters, the messy annotations, the lazy inkblots, the cursory crossses, and all of the doodles. 🪶
January 23, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I hear it's National Handwriting Day! My research relies on those individuals who spent most of their days with a pen in their hand and, presumably, ink all over their fingers. Thanks to the neat letters, the messy annotations, the lazy inkblots, the cursory crossses, and all of the doodles. 🪶
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A pleasure to write this short article for @sahavoice.bsky.social about the ambitions of ‘The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention’ project: saha.scot/the-burns-su....
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The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention - by Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman | SAHA: The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance
A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
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January 23, 2026 at 2:38 PM
A pleasure to write this short article for @sahavoice.bsky.social about the ambitions of ‘The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention’ project: saha.scot/the-burns-su....
Access our #BurnsSupper225 survey here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...!
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Access our #BurnsSupper225 survey here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...!
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To celebrate Burns Night on Sunday, I wrote an article for @theconversation.com about the role that Robert Burns played in the afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Have a read below!
Have a read below!
Robert Burns and Mary, Queen of Scots: how the poet shaped the enduring cultural legacy of the executed monarch
The queen was the source of much debate among 18th-century thinkers.
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January 23, 2026 at 3:42 PM
To celebrate Burns Night on Sunday, I wrote an article for @theconversation.com about the role that Robert Burns played in the afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Have a read below!
Have a read below!
Eeek
Today’s Out of the Shadows email is by @ginorgym.bsky.social
We thought we would challenge Geraldine to bring some of her Burns thoughts and opinions into the daylight.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Eeek
Testing out a sign up link today!
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January 20, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Testing out a sign up link today!
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Had great fun reading and editing the Blether this month! A great spectrum of insights and opinions on the Scottish Bard which I’m sure will be thought-provoking to all of our readers 🧐💭
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January 19, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Had great fun reading and editing the Blether this month! A great spectrum of insights and opinions on the Scottish Bard which I’m sure will be thought-provoking to all of our readers 🧐💭
Fantastic piece by @katekane1542.bsky.social !
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We kick off our Daily Burns Blether emails with our By the Way! @katekane1542.bsky.social brings to our attention the Bard’s connection to Mary, Queen of Scots. Focusing on Burns’s 1790 Marian lament and its cultural contexts and afterlife.
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January 19, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Fantastic piece by @katekane1542.bsky.social !
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January 19, 2026 at 5:34 AM
It is Daily Blether week so, if you have subscribed, keep an eye on your inbox.
Of course we have gone all Burns, so if you haven’t signed up to receive our Daily Blether then drop us a DM and we will send you the link.
#thebletherpgr
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#burnsnight
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#burnsnight
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Mary, Queen of Scots is remembered as a ‘Jeezabel’ in George Blake’s ‘Scottish Treasure Trove’ (1928). The collection contains ‘the most interesting historical extracts and literary quotations about Scotland’.
Quotation from John Gibson Lockhart’s 1823 satirical bildungsroman ‘Reginald Dalton’.
Quotation from John Gibson Lockhart’s 1823 satirical bildungsroman ‘Reginald Dalton’.
January 18, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Mary, Queen of Scots is remembered as a ‘Jeezabel’ in George Blake’s ‘Scottish Treasure Trove’ (1928). The collection contains ‘the most interesting historical extracts and literary quotations about Scotland’.
Quotation from John Gibson Lockhart’s 1823 satirical bildungsroman ‘Reginald Dalton’.
Quotation from John Gibson Lockhart’s 1823 satirical bildungsroman ‘Reginald Dalton’.
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Robert Burns never set foot in America but his words did, says leading Scots American Ian Houston ahead of his lecture @glasgowburns.bsky.social conference on 17 Jan 2026.
As the US turns 250, discover how Scotland’s national bard shaped a nation’s conscience.
As the US turns 250, discover how Scotland’s national bard shaped a nation’s conscience.
How Scotland’s bard influenced a nation across the ocean
Exploring how Robert Burns’s transatlantic influence helped shape American ideals of equality and democracy.
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January 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Robert Burns never set foot in America but his words did, says leading Scots American Ian Houston ahead of his lecture @glasgowburns.bsky.social conference on 17 Jan 2026.
As the US turns 250, discover how Scotland’s national bard shaped a nation’s conscience.
As the US turns 250, discover how Scotland’s national bard shaped a nation’s conscience.
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PLEASE SHARE — WE’RE OPEN 📚
The Agnes Owens Archive is now open at @agrayarchive.bsky.social AGA’s first satellite archive, restoring Owens to her rightful place in Scottish literature.
Free tours Jan 23 & 31, 2026. Book via Eventbrite (link in bio).
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The Agnes Owens Archive is now open at @agrayarchive.bsky.social AGA’s first satellite archive, restoring Owens to her rightful place in Scottish literature.
Free tours Jan 23 & 31, 2026. Book via Eventbrite (link in bio).
#agnesowens #theagnesowensarchive
January 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM
PLEASE SHARE — WE’RE OPEN 📚
The Agnes Owens Archive is now open at @agrayarchive.bsky.social AGA’s first satellite archive, restoring Owens to her rightful place in Scottish literature.
Free tours Jan 23 & 31, 2026. Book via Eventbrite (link in bio).
#agnesowens #theagnesowensarchive
The Agnes Owens Archive is now open at @agrayarchive.bsky.social AGA’s first satellite archive, restoring Owens to her rightful place in Scottish literature.
Free tours Jan 23 & 31, 2026. Book via Eventbrite (link in bio).
#agnesowens #theagnesowensarchive
January 15, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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Dr Moira Hansen discussing the “Hollywood” moment in Robert Burns’s life, when he suddenly found fame and success in 1786 Edinburgh – a pivotal point but which took its toll on the poet’s mental health. 🏴
Listen to the rest of the podcast here: pod.link/1865430519
Listen to the rest of the podcast here: pod.link/1865430519
January 14, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Dr Moira Hansen discussing the “Hollywood” moment in Robert Burns’s life, when he suddenly found fame and success in 1786 Edinburgh – a pivotal point but which took its toll on the poet’s mental health. 🏴
Listen to the rest of the podcast here: pod.link/1865430519
Listen to the rest of the podcast here: pod.link/1865430519
My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee!
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January 14, 2026 at 7:56 PM
And since it is coming up to #burnsnight
Oxfam books website does it again!!
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#robertburns
Oxfam books website does it again!!
@glasgowburns.bsky.social
@hannahgrim02.bsky.social
#robertburns
January 14, 2026 at 2:53 PM
And since it is coming up to #burnsnight
Oxfam books website does it again!!
@glasgowburns.bsky.social
@hannahgrim02.bsky.social
#robertburns
Oxfam books website does it again!!
@glasgowburns.bsky.social
@hannahgrim02.bsky.social
#robertburns