Jade Scott
@huntingrebels.bsky.social
Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History |
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
Send us your proposals! We love to hear about the fantastic research using all kinds of sources for Scottish History
🚨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...
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
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February 10, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Send us your proposals! We love to hear about the fantastic research using all kinds of sources for Scottish History
There's still time to sign up for this fascinating talk tomorrow evening with Derrick Johnstone!
East Jersey Bound: From Scotland to America in the 1680s
SHS and @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social are thrilled to announce a free, online event with Derrick Johnstone on Wednesday 11 Feb from 17:30 (UK)
Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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SHS and @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social are thrilled to announce a free, online event with Derrick Johnstone on Wednesday 11 Feb from 17:30 (UK)
Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
scottishhistorysociety.com/east-jersey-...
East Jersey Bound: From Scotland to America in the 1680s
scottishhistorysociety.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:14 AM
There's still time to sign up for this fascinating talk tomorrow evening with Derrick Johnstone!
Talking about some of the amazing letters from the AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 project next week for @ihrlibrary.bsky.social 17th Century Seminar. Join us!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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"Weiriet of living my lone": Scottish women letter-writers & James VI's London Court, 1603 – 25
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February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Talking about some of the amazing letters from the AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 project next week for @ihrlibrary.bsky.social 17th Century Seminar. Join us!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The lovely Dr Claire McNulty will be joining us in January not this Friday as originally scheduled folks!
Winter Lecture Series RESCHEDULED!
Please note that our third event with Dr Claire McNulty has been rescheduled to Wednesday 7 January 2026. We hope you can still join us online from 17:30 (UK) to hear more about 'Edinburgh's Unruly Women'!
Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Please note that our third event with Dr Claire McNulty has been rescheduled to Wednesday 7 January 2026. We hope you can still join us online from 17:30 (UK) to hear more about 'Edinburgh's Unruly Women'!
Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SHS Winter Lecture Series 3. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SHS Winter Lecture Series 3. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
uofglasgow.zoom.us
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The lovely Dr Claire McNulty will be joining us in January not this Friday as originally scheduled folks!
Reposted by Jade Scott
Imprisoned for nearly 20 years by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, fought her battles through words, sending and receiving coded letters. Historian Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social uncovers the human and political depths behind Mary’s captivity: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...
Mary, Queen of Scots, with Jade Scott | Folger Shakespeare Library
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November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Imprisoned for nearly 20 years by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, fought her battles through words, sending and receiving coded letters. Historian Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social uncovers the human and political depths behind Mary’s captivity: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...
Talking about my bae Annas Keith 🤩
Stepping outside my comfort zone and looking at something other than letters as a source of noblewomen's lived experience and socio-political agency in #earlymodernScotland
Come hear about Annas Keith's account books, inventories and diet books
Register 👇🏼
Stepping outside my comfort zone and looking at something other than letters as a source of noblewomen's lived experience and socio-political agency in #earlymodernScotland
Come hear about Annas Keith's account books, inventories and diet books
Register 👇🏼
Register for the second event in our Winter Lecture Series
Our Secretary @huntingrebels.bsky.social will delve into 'The Accounts, Inventories, and Diet Books of Annas Keith, Countess of Moray and Argyll'
Find out more at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com/records-from...
Our Secretary @huntingrebels.bsky.social will delve into 'The Accounts, Inventories, and Diet Books of Annas Keith, Countess of Moray and Argyll'
Find out more at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com/records-from...
Records from a Noble Household: The Accounts, Inventories, and Diet Books of Annas Keith, Countess of Moray and Argyll
scottishhistorysociety.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Talking about my bae Annas Keith 🤩
Stepping outside my comfort zone and looking at something other than letters as a source of noblewomen's lived experience and socio-political agency in #earlymodernScotland
Come hear about Annas Keith's account books, inventories and diet books
Register 👇🏼
Stepping outside my comfort zone and looking at something other than letters as a source of noblewomen's lived experience and socio-political agency in #earlymodernScotland
Come hear about Annas Keith's account books, inventories and diet books
Register 👇🏼
Looking forward to chairing this amazing lecture!
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!
scottishhistorysociety.com/editing-the-...
Register below!
scottishhistorysociety.com/editing-the-...
Editing the Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489 – 1541) with Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler
scottishhistorysociety.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Looking forward to chairing this amazing lecture!
Very excited to start a new Winter Lecture Series with the fantastic @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social discussing the letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots 🪶💌👑
Registration details below!
Registration details below!
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...
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...
SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
scottishhistorysociety.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Very excited to start a new Winter Lecture Series with the fantastic @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social discussing the letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots 🪶💌👑
Registration details below!
Registration details below!
It's been a busy few weeks! Formally started the AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 project with the fantastic History team @uofglasgow.bsky.social on 1 October 🎉
Oh and did I mention I brought home a new quadruped child? 🦄
Everyone meet Elvis, my very own, very handsome Highland Pony 🐴😍
Oh and did I mention I brought home a new quadruped child? 🦄
Everyone meet Elvis, my very own, very handsome Highland Pony 🐴😍
October 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It's been a busy few weeks! Formally started the AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 project with the fantastic History team @uofglasgow.bsky.social on 1 October 🎉
Oh and did I mention I brought home a new quadruped child? 🦄
Everyone meet Elvis, my very own, very handsome Highland Pony 🐴😍
Oh and did I mention I brought home a new quadruped child? 🦄
Everyone meet Elvis, my very own, very handsome Highland Pony 🐴😍
Can't believe it but on Wednesday I'll be at #EdBookFest talking Mary, Queen of Scots w/ the amazing Rosemary Goring, Kate Anderson and Anna Groundwater! 👑📚
Thursday = Highlands & Clydesdales at Scone Horse Trials 🐎
Come along, the more friendly faces the better!
@omarabooks.bsky.social
Thursday = Highlands & Clydesdales at Scone Horse Trials 🐎
Come along, the more friendly faces the better!
@omarabooks.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Can't believe it but on Wednesday I'll be at #EdBookFest talking Mary, Queen of Scots w/ the amazing Rosemary Goring, Kate Anderson and Anna Groundwater! 👑📚
Thursday = Highlands & Clydesdales at Scone Horse Trials 🐎
Come along, the more friendly faces the better!
@omarabooks.bsky.social
Thursday = Highlands & Clydesdales at Scone Horse Trials 🐎
Come along, the more friendly faces the better!
@omarabooks.bsky.social
Reposted by Jade Scott
The wonderful Dr Jade Scott (@huntingrebels.bsky.social), author of #CaptiveQueen, is attending Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 20th to discuss Mary Queen of Scots 📚
Grab your tickets through this link: buff.ly/dPsH3XZ
#BookSky #HistoryBooks
Grab your tickets through this link: buff.ly/dPsH3XZ
#BookSky #HistoryBooks
August 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The wonderful Dr Jade Scott (@huntingrebels.bsky.social), author of #CaptiveQueen, is attending Edinburgh International Book Festival on August 20th to discuss Mary Queen of Scots 📚
Grab your tickets through this link: buff.ly/dPsH3XZ
#BookSky #HistoryBooks
Grab your tickets through this link: buff.ly/dPsH3XZ
#BookSky #HistoryBooks
Does anyone happen to have access to a digital copy of the Treasurer Accounts of Scotland Volume 12 (1566-1574)? 🙏🏼🤞🏼
I can only get up to Volume 10 AND the physical copy was missing in the library 😔
Was tempted to wander the floors looking to see who had it since it's reference only but I refrained
I can only get up to Volume 10 AND the physical copy was missing in the library 😔
Was tempted to wander the floors looking to see who had it since it's reference only but I refrained
July 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Does anyone happen to have access to a digital copy of the Treasurer Accounts of Scotland Volume 12 (1566-1574)? 🙏🏼🤞🏼
I can only get up to Volume 10 AND the physical copy was missing in the library 😔
Was tempted to wander the floors looking to see who had it since it's reference only but I refrained
I can only get up to Volume 10 AND the physical copy was missing in the library 😔
Was tempted to wander the floors looking to see who had it since it's reference only but I refrained
Very excited to share a stage with some amazing women @edbookfest.bsky.social
Rosemary Goring, Kate Anderson and I will be discussing Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI under the expert care of Anna Groundwater on 20 Aug
#EdinburghInternationalBookFestival
Rosemary Goring, Kate Anderson and I will be discussing Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI under the expert care of Anna Groundwater on 20 Aug
#EdinburghInternationalBookFestival
We are thrilled that Dr Jade Scott (@huntingrebels.bsky.social), author of #CaptiveQueen, will be discussing Mary Queen of Scots at #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival on August 20th 📚
Grab your tickets here - both in person, and online: buff.ly/ONslnr3
#BookSky @edbookfest.bsky.social
Grab your tickets here - both in person, and online: buff.ly/ONslnr3
#BookSky @edbookfest.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Very excited to share a stage with some amazing women @edbookfest.bsky.social
Rosemary Goring, Kate Anderson and I will be discussing Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI under the expert care of Anna Groundwater on 20 Aug
#EdinburghInternationalBookFestival
Rosemary Goring, Kate Anderson and I will be discussing Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI under the expert care of Anna Groundwater on 20 Aug
#EdinburghInternationalBookFestival
Still time! 👇🏼
The Scottish History Society has extended the deadline for the Alasdair Ross Prize to 1 July! Apply for up to £500 towards archival research costs! Go, go, go, we can't wait to hear about all the amazing projects going on & would love to help researchers! scottishhistorysociety.com/prizes/the-a...
June 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Still time! 👇🏼
The Scottish History Society has extended the deadline for the Alasdair Ross Prize to 1 July! Apply for up to £500 towards archival research costs! Go, go, go, we can't wait to hear about all the amazing projects going on & would love to help researchers! scottishhistorysociety.com/prizes/the-a...
June 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The Scottish History Society has extended the deadline for the Alasdair Ross Prize to 1 July! Apply for up to £500 towards archival research costs! Go, go, go, we can't wait to hear about all the amazing projects going on & would love to help researchers! scottishhistorysociety.com/prizes/the-a...
It's been a minute since I was here but I come with good news! Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 has been awarded an AHRC Catalyst Grant 🎉
From October I'll start on a database AND digital edition of these amazing letters based with History at University of Glasgow 🥂🎊
From October I'll start on a database AND digital edition of these amazing letters based with History at University of Glasgow 🥂🎊
May 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
It's been a minute since I was here but I come with good news! Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 has been awarded an AHRC Catalyst Grant 🎉
From October I'll start on a database AND digital edition of these amazing letters based with History at University of Glasgow 🥂🎊
From October I'll start on a database AND digital edition of these amazing letters based with History at University of Glasgow 🥂🎊
First time speaking at Boswell and really looking forward to it! AND can you believe we are meant to have lovely weather too? 😊
Linda Porter and @huntingrebels.bsky.social combine to discuss two Queens
The Thistle and the Rose is the story of the misunderstood and underestimated monarch, Margaret Tudor
Captive Queen vividly describes the long incarceration of Mary Queen of Scots
Join us in-person or online
bit.ly/Bozzfest
The Thistle and the Rose is the story of the misunderstood and underestimated monarch, Margaret Tudor
Captive Queen vividly describes the long incarceration of Mary Queen of Scots
Join us in-person or online
bit.ly/Bozzfest
May 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
First time speaking at Boswell and really looking forward to it! AND can you believe we are meant to have lovely weather too? 😊
The Scottish History Society 2025 Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM is on Saturday 29th March! We had a fantastic time last year hearing about research so join us for a great day of papers and discussion. Free to members, £5 non-members.
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Select tickets – Scottish History Society 2025 Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM – Old Medical School, Teviot Place, University of Edinburgh
‘The Sources of Scottish History’
University of Edinburgh
29 March 2025
All events will take place in the University of Edinbur...
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March 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Scottish History Society 2025 Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM is on Saturday 29th March! We had a fantastic time last year hearing about research so join us for a great day of papers and discussion. Free to members, £5 non-members.
www.tickettailor.com/events/scott...
www.tickettailor.com/events/scott...
Cannot for the life of me figure out what fabric this is supposed to be even as I play around with various interpretations of transcribing it! 😖
'fyn double...' Any suggestions?
'fyn double...' Any suggestions?
February 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Cannot for the life of me figure out what fabric this is supposed to be even as I play around with various interpretations of transcribing it! 😖
'fyn double...' Any suggestions?
'fyn double...' Any suggestions?
Had a great time chatting with Johanna about challenging traditional portrayals of queens and of course the value of letters!
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The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @johannastrong.bsky.social for her conversation with @huntingrebels.bsky.social about Mary, Queen of Scots, the focus of Jade's latest work: Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots 👑 📖
🧵/3
🧵/3
February 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Had a great time chatting with Johanna about challenging traditional portrayals of queens and of course the value of letters!
🪶👑📖
🪶👑📖
Today is US publication day for Captive Queen! 🎉
With another lovely cover too 👑
Thanks to the team at Pegasus
With another lovely cover too 👑
Thanks to the team at Pegasus
February 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Today is US publication day for Captive Queen! 🎉
With another lovely cover too 👑
Thanks to the team at Pegasus
With another lovely cover too 👑
Thanks to the team at Pegasus
Join me to hear about Mary's letters and support a lovely bookshop! 🪶
Soon we'll be sitting down with @huntingrebels.bsky.social to discuss her book Captive Queen, a new biography of Mary, Queen of Scots covering the years she spent imprisoned at Fotheringhay Castle & her use of ciphers in letter-writing. Tickets: www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com/collections/...
January 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Join me to hear about Mary's letters and support a lovely bookshop! 🪶
Reposted by Jade Scott
In #CaptiveQueen, historian and expert on Mary’s correspondence @huntingrebels.bsky.social draws on hundreds of Mary’s letters and those sent to her, to paint a vivid portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures.
Out now in hardback 🎁
#HistoryBooks #WomenInHistory #BookRecs
Out now in hardback 🎁
#HistoryBooks #WomenInHistory #BookRecs
January 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
In #CaptiveQueen, historian and expert on Mary’s correspondence @huntingrebels.bsky.social draws on hundreds of Mary’s letters and those sent to her, to paint a vivid portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures.
Out now in hardback 🎁
#HistoryBooks #WomenInHistory #BookRecs
Out now in hardback 🎁
#HistoryBooks #WomenInHistory #BookRecs
'refreshing the debate on Mary Stuart; for weaving a thrilling real-life tale of spying; and for giving us all access to the woman and politician behind the myth'
Huge thanks to Steven Veerapen for this review of Captive Queen in the latest Aspects of History
Huge thanks to Steven Veerapen for this review of Captive Queen in the latest Aspects of History
January 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
'refreshing the debate on Mary Stuart; for weaving a thrilling real-life tale of spying; and for giving us all access to the woman and politician behind the myth'
Huge thanks to Steven Veerapen for this review of Captive Queen in the latest Aspects of History
Huge thanks to Steven Veerapen for this review of Captive Queen in the latest Aspects of History
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year'
Final poem for this year's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Sir Walter Scott, from 'Old Christmastide']
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year'
Final poem for this year's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Sir Walter Scott, from 'Old Christmastide']
December 24, 2024 at 10:35 AM
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year'
Final poem for this year's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Sir Walter Scott, from 'Old Christmastide']
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year'
Final poem for this year's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Sir Walter Scott, from 'Old Christmastide']