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Jade Scott
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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
The lovely Dr Claire McNulty will be joining us in January not this Friday as originally scheduled folks!
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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
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 👇🏼
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...
Records from a Noble Household: The Accounts, Inventories, and Diet Books of Annas Keith, Countess of Moray and Argyll
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November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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!

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Editing the Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489 – 1541) with Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler
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October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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!
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.

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SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
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October 10, 2025 at 5:18 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 🐴😍
October 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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
August 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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
August 4, 2025 at 5:02 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
July 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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
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
June 27, 2025 at 8:47 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 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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
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 🥂🎊
May 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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
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May 7, 2025 at 12:51 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.
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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
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?
February 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Had a great time chatting with Johanna about challenging traditional portrayals of queens and of course the value of letters!

🪶👑📖
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 👑 📖

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February 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Today is US publication day for Captive Queen! 🎉

With another lovely cover too 👑

Thanks to the team at Pegasus
February 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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
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
January 19, 2025 at 10:00 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
January 7, 2025 at 11:05 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']
December 24, 2024 at 10:35 AM
'Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin' through the strife,
Hoo the luntin' lowe o' beauty
Lichts the grey o' life.'

[Helen Cruickshank, 'Sea Buckthorn']

#ScottishPoetryAdvent
December 23, 2024 at 11:57 AM
'if it weren't for this persistent sense
of something -'

[Kate Clanchy, 'Teams']

For today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
December 22, 2024 at 10:10 AM
'A mountain shut within itself, yet a world'

Delayed #ScottishPoetryAdvent for 21 December

[Nan Shepherd, 'Summit of Corrie Etchachan']
December 22, 2024 at 10:09 AM