Aaron Allen
@mchapelproject.bsky.social
Christian; Historian of work and trade; Bonnetmakers; Surgeons; Kirkwall Tailors Project; Palaeography; author of Building Early Modern Edinburgh; Trying to learn Latin...
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Merry Christmas all!
December 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Merry Christmas all!
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New publications for 2025-2026! This year we have two (!) volumes, focussed on different islands: Arran (Arran Rentals, 1576-1780: accounts & testaments) and Australia (Life & Adventures of G. R. Nicoll, 1824-1901: travel journal of a Scottish shipwright/blockmaker) www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
New publications for 2025-2026! This year we have two (!) volumes, focussed on different islands: Arran (Arran Rentals, 1576-1780: accounts & testaments) and Australia (Life & Adventures of G. R. Nicoll, 1824-1901: travel journal of a Scottish shipwright/blockmaker) www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk
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And two more clues (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) – can you guess the theme of this year’s SRS volume(s) now? {_ _ _ _ _ _ _}They range from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, and will, of course, be sent out to members, so why not join the Society? www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/
September 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
And two more clues (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) – can you guess the theme of this year’s SRS volume(s) now? {_ _ _ _ _ _ _}They range from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, and will, of course, be sent out to members, so why not join the Society? www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/membership/
Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
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Today. Talks start again at 3pm UK time.
#genealogy #conference #Scotland 📚🗃️ #archives
#records #churches #medicine #Buccleuch Q and A session
#genealogy #conference #Scotland 📚🗃️ #archives
#records #churches #medicine #Buccleuch Q and A session
Scottish Indexes Conference - Saturday 22 Nov 2025.
Interested in tracing your Scottish genealogy? Expert advice. Time-zone friendly. Each presentation is shown twice. Free to attend. @scottishindexes.bsky.social #genealogy #FamilyHistory #Scotland
www.scottishindexes.com/conference.a...
Interested in tracing your Scottish genealogy? Expert advice. Time-zone friendly. Each presentation is shown twice. Free to attend. @scottishindexes.bsky.social #genealogy #FamilyHistory #Scotland
www.scottishindexes.com/conference.a...
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Today. Talks start again at 3pm UK time.
#genealogy #conference #Scotland 📚🗃️ #archives
#records #churches #medicine #Buccleuch Q and A session
#genealogy #conference #Scotland 📚🗃️ #archives
#records #churches #medicine #Buccleuch Q and A session
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Book launch for Love & Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance on Tuesday 25 November, 5.30pm @iashedinburgh.bsky.social - please share & consider coming along! I'll be chatting to @kateai.bsky.social & Carol M Richardson.
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: "Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance"
New book: "Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by Hope Doherty-Harrison
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November 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Book launch for Love & Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance on Tuesday 25 November, 5.30pm @iashedinburgh.bsky.social - please share & consider coming along! I'll be chatting to @kateai.bsky.social & Carol M Richardson.
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
FAO @michaelpearce.bsky.social @estaitis.bsky.social @kiritekatawa.bsky.social - any thoughts on this one?
Help please with #palaeography - what is Andro's surname? Or what word follows?
November 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
FAO @michaelpearce.bsky.social @estaitis.bsky.social @kiritekatawa.bsky.social - any thoughts on this one?
Just found John Mclean being booked as a Surgeon's apprentice in 1672, and I'm desperately resisting the urge to drop in a footnote saying 'Welcome to the party pal.'
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just found John Mclean being booked as a Surgeon's apprentice in 1672, and I'm desperately resisting the urge to drop in a footnote saying 'Welcome to the party pal.'
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Help please with #palaeography - what is Andro's surname? Or what word follows?
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Help please with #palaeography - what is Andro's surname? Or what word follows?
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#Museum30 theme 15 is #kindness. Thanks are accorded to all those who kindly gifted items over years to Dunblane Museum for its collection, many permanently on display, or in temporary exhibitions, or for access for research. Those who kindly donate when visiting the museum…/👇
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Very much looking forward to welcoming @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social as our speaker for the #Crewe & #Nantwich meeting of @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social on Tuesday via Zoom
The topic - Salt-making In Cheshire and Staffordshire
Still time to register 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/events/crewe...
The topic - Salt-making In Cheshire and Staffordshire
Still time to register 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/events/crewe...
Salt-making In Cheshire and Staffordshire, hosted by the Crewe & Nantwich Group via Zoom
'In Georgian and Victorian Cheshire, salt was one of the county’s most important exports. In the early 1790s, over 80 Mersey flats were kept busy transporting 58,000 tons of salt yearly to...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Looking forward to talking to East Lothian Embroiders and Textile Artists about Women's clothing in late medieval Scotland on Saturday 22nd at the Bleaching Field Centre, Dunbar at 2pm.
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Looking forward to talking to East Lothian Embroiders and Textile Artists about Women's clothing in late medieval Scotland on Saturday 22nd at the Bleaching Field Centre, Dunbar at 2pm.
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Wonderful workshop today on the materiality of manuscripts with @bryonycoombs.bsky.social at Edinburgh University’s Centre for Research Collections.
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Wonderful workshop today on the materiality of manuscripts with @bryonycoombs.bsky.social at Edinburgh University’s Centre for Research Collections.
'Scotland's oldest bakery' up for sale after 200 years www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Scotland's oldest bakery' Alexander Taylor up for sale after 200 years
Barry and Claire Taylor are the sixth generation to run Scotland's oldest bakery in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
'Scotland's oldest bakery' up for sale after 200 years www.bbc.com/news/article...
First scientific evidence of Black Death in Edinburgh found on skeleton
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
First scientific evidence of Black Death in Edinburgh found on skeleton
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November #Museum30 month of celebrating museums & heritage, first day theme “introduction.” Dunblane Museum is in building of 1624 (so over 400 years old), & shares story of Dunblane through ages from child's 4000-year-old necklace to mementos of Dunblane's tennis…/👇
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
November #Museum30 month of celebrating museums & heritage, first day theme “introduction.” Dunblane Museum is in building of 1624 (so over 400 years old), & shares story of Dunblane through ages from child's 4000-year-old necklace to mementos of Dunblane's tennis…/👇
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If you have a hard copy of the 3-vol (2018) "Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources" and are looking to pass it on to someone (such as a medievalist trying to produce critical editions of 13th-century texts), then please contact me!
November 27, 2024 at 7:53 PM
If you have a hard copy of the 3-vol (2018) "Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources" and are looking to pass it on to someone (such as a medievalist trying to produce critical editions of 13th-century texts), then please contact me!
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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
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October 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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-...
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Interested in men's clothing in late Medieval Scotland ?
Come and hear me talk on Monday 3 November at Augustine United Church, Edinburgh
Come and hear me talk on Monday 3 November at Augustine United Church, Edinburgh
October 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Interested in men's clothing in late Medieval Scotland ?
Come and hear me talk on Monday 3 November at Augustine United Church, Edinburgh
Come and hear me talk on Monday 3 November at Augustine United Church, Edinburgh
The Salt and Power project is reconstructing and operating an Iron Age salt kiln 2-8 November 2025. The experiments will be streamed live. Link provided in the poster.
October 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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The amazing Isle of Arran Heritage Museum needs a new roof on one of its fantastic buildings! It’s a worthy cause! #Arran Please repost!
October 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The amazing Isle of Arran Heritage Museum needs a new roof on one of its fantastic buildings! It’s a worthy cause! #Arran Please repost!
Help with #Latin #Palaeography please! What is this word beginning with d and ending in le?
'In dei nominie Amen per hoc praesens publicum Instrumentum Curatis pateat Evidentum quod anno Incarnationis d[inumerabi]le?? millesimo quingentesimo trigesimonono mensis vero Decembris die decimo sexto'??
'In dei nominie Amen per hoc praesens publicum Instrumentum Curatis pateat Evidentum quod anno Incarnationis d[inumerabi]le?? millesimo quingentesimo trigesimonono mensis vero Decembris die decimo sexto'??
October 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Help with #Latin #Palaeography please! What is this word beginning with d and ending in le?
'In dei nominie Amen per hoc praesens publicum Instrumentum Curatis pateat Evidentum quod anno Incarnationis d[inumerabi]le?? millesimo quingentesimo trigesimonono mensis vero Decembris die decimo sexto'??
'In dei nominie Amen per hoc praesens publicum Instrumentum Curatis pateat Evidentum quod anno Incarnationis d[inumerabi]le?? millesimo quingentesimo trigesimonono mensis vero Decembris die decimo sexto'??
Help with #palaeography please! Is this Schir Richert Avrle or Cwrle? Is it Aurle or Curle? It’s from Edinburgh in 1536. Note the ws (us) in the line above.
October 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Help with #palaeography please! Is this Schir Richert Avrle or Cwrle? Is it Aurle or Curle? It’s from Edinburgh in 1536. Note the ws (us) in the line above.
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We are now inviting teams and individuals to sign up as volunteers for our Caring Christmas Trees collection points across Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lothians and Fife!
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Pick your location and sign up at https://www.caringchristmastrees.com/volunteer
Thank you!! 🎄
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Pick your location and sign up at https://www.caringchristmastrees.com/volunteer
Thank you!! 🎄
Volunteer | Caring Christmas Trees
Volunteer with Caring Christmas Trees at one of our collection sites.
www.caringchristmastrees.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We are now inviting teams and individuals to sign up as volunteers for our Caring Christmas Trees collection points across Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lothians and Fife!
💚❤️
Pick your location and sign up at https://www.caringchristmastrees.com/volunteer
Thank you!! 🎄
💚❤️
Pick your location and sign up at https://www.caringchristmastrees.com/volunteer
Thank you!! 🎄
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#OTD (9th Oct) 1538 - John Mathesoun, Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of Caithness (#Dornoch) asked that the Pope would grant him indult to use the divine office and canonical hours published by Francis, ‘cardinal priest of Sta Croce in Gerusalemme’. www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 5:57 AM
#OTD (9th Oct) 1538 - John Mathesoun, Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of Caithness (#Dornoch) asked that the Pope would grant him indult to use the divine office and canonical hours published by Francis, ‘cardinal priest of Sta Croce in Gerusalemme’. www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk