Alan MacDonald
@estaitis.bsky.social
Early modern Scotland, environment, agriculture, government, cider-making, green/left pessimist
Excellent first day at @braghs.bsky.social conference in Bury Guildhall yesterday. Looking forward to the second day at the @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social Stowmarket.
April 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Excellent first day at @braghs.bsky.social conference in Bury Guildhall yesterday. Looking forward to the second day at the @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social Stowmarket.
Do Routledge ever employ copy editors? Currently reading this and almost every chapter reads like it went straight from first draft to print.
February 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Do Routledge ever employ copy editors? Currently reading this and almost every chapter reads like it went straight from first draft to print.
Beautiful, chilly lunchtime walk with Magnus. Pondering 1690s famine and fasting. Thinking's often so much easier outside.
November 19, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Beautiful, chilly lunchtime walk with Magnus. Pondering 1690s famine and fasting. Thinking's often so much easier outside.
A list of the harvest work done by Bessie Gray on the Dundas Estate, West Lothian, in August 1621. Many thraves, stooks and sheaves of wheat, bere and oats were shorn.
November 17, 2024 at 7:38 PM
A list of the harvest work done by Bessie Gray on the Dundas Estate, West Lothian, in August 1621. Many thraves, stooks and sheaves of wheat, bere and oats were shorn.