Roslyn Potter
@roslynpotter.bsky.social
Scottish Lit PhD (SGSAH) and Tutor at UofGlasgow // early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp 📚 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻
https://bio.site/roslynpotter
https://bio.site/roslynpotter
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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 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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...
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We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too
Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!
Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!
Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
The Scottish History Society
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October 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too
Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!
Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!
Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
I'll be on NTS radio on Saturday at 10am with a mix inspired by the folklore, the roots of activism 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 www.nts.live
October 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I'll be on NTS radio on Saturday at 10am with a mix inspired by the folklore, the roots of activism 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 www.nts.live
🎶 I wrote a piece on 'Songs and Fancies', Scotland's earliest printed music book. Many thanks to Jane Petteree over at Soundyngs blog for hosting!
Songs and Fancies: Aberdonian music-making in the 17th Century
Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions also exist from e.g. the NLS). This post welcomes guest-author Roslyn Potter, who is …
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September 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🎶 I wrote a piece on 'Songs and Fancies', Scotland's earliest printed music book. Many thanks to Jane Petteree over at Soundyngs blog for hosting!
Very cool opportunity from @thenightwith.bsky.social for aspiring and enthusiastic sound engineers 🎻🎶
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Trainee Sound Engineering 2025 | The Night With
Applications are now open for The Night With…’s pioneering one year scheme to train and nurture the next generation of sound engineers specialising in class ...
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August 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Very cool opportunity from @thenightwith.bsky.social for aspiring and enthusiastic sound engineers 🎻🎶
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“Whether buried in the blackhouses of Lewis or the shuttered shipyards of Glasgow, Scotland’s mysteries speak to specific legacies which have shaped the land- & cityscapes that house its crimes”
THE BOTTLE IMP goes on the trail of Scottish crime writing…
1/8
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/help...
THE BOTTLE IMP goes on the trail of Scottish crime writing…
1/8
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/help...
Help! Murder! Polis! - The Bottle Imp
Detective works were once seen as London’s domain – imperial in tone and centrally composed, unfolding in gentleman’s clubs and smoky drawing rooms. Yet long before fictional fact-finders patrolled Ba...
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June 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“Whether buried in the blackhouses of Lewis or the shuttered shipyards of Glasgow, Scotland’s mysteries speak to specific legacies which have shaped the land- & cityscapes that house its crimes”
THE BOTTLE IMP goes on the trail of Scottish crime writing…
1/8
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/help...
THE BOTTLE IMP goes on the trail of Scottish crime writing…
1/8
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/help...
I am happy with this gift ☕️🍴👻
June 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I am happy with this gift ☕️🍴👻
Hands down one of my favourite conferences ever! Congratulations to @misswalsingham.bsky.social and the FEATHERS team for such an excellent project and for showing us all such a good time in a beautiful place. I’m left feeling inspired and uplifted – thanks to all involved!
May 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Hands down one of my favourite conferences ever! Congratulations to @misswalsingham.bsky.social and the FEATHERS team for such an excellent project and for showing us all such a good time in a beautiful place. I’m left feeling inspired and uplifted – thanks to all involved!
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A braw post doc with the IASH and NMS in Edinburgh, examining the connections between Poland, Scandinavia or the Netherlands. Applications need to be in by the 25th April 2025.
#c18 #Skystorians #earlymodern
#17thc #JacobiteStudies #Scottishhistory
#c18 #Skystorians #earlymodern
#17thc #JacobiteStudies #Scottishhistory
Post Doc!
"Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture"
Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
#Skystorians 🗃
"Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture"
Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
#Skystorians 🗃
IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship | IASH
www.iash.ed.ac.uk
April 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A braw post doc with the IASH and NMS in Edinburgh, examining the connections between Poland, Scandinavia or the Netherlands. Applications need to be in by the 25th April 2025.
#c18 #Skystorians #earlymodern
#17thc #JacobiteStudies #Scottishhistory
#c18 #Skystorians #earlymodern
#17thc #JacobiteStudies #Scottishhistory
It's hard to believe that I completed my MPhil three years ago now. For reasons I can't remember, I opted to have it embargoed...but today, it's lifted! If anyone is interested in the literary legacy of the first secular song book printed in Scotland (1662) then this is your lucky day! 🎶
John Forbes’s Songs and Fancies and its literary legacy - Enlighten Theses
theses.gla.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
It's hard to believe that I completed my MPhil three years ago now. For reasons I can't remember, I opted to have it embargoed...but today, it's lifted! If anyone is interested in the literary legacy of the first secular song book printed in Scotland (1662) then this is your lucky day! 🎶
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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...
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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...
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Now this big westerly’s
blown itself out,
let’s drive to the storm beach…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Beach”
Published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
blown itself out,
let’s drive to the storm beach…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Beach”
Published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
January 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Now this big westerly’s
blown itself out,
let’s drive to the storm beach…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Beach”
Published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
blown itself out,
let’s drive to the storm beach…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Beach”
Published in THE OVERHAUL, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2012
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
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🌟Discover and Follow Women’s History Scotland! 🌟
Since 1995, we've connected people passionate about women’s and gender history in Scotland. We host events, provide teaching resources, and offer prizes and bursaries to promote diverse voices.
womenshistoryscotland.org
#WomensHistory
Since 1995, we've connected people passionate about women’s and gender history in Scotland. We host events, provide teaching resources, and offer prizes and bursaries to promote diverse voices.
womenshistoryscotland.org
#WomensHistory
Women's History Scotland – Promoting study and research in women's and gender history in Scotland
womenshistoryscotland.org
January 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🌟Discover and Follow Women’s History Scotland! 🌟
Since 1995, we've connected people passionate about women’s and gender history in Scotland. We host events, provide teaching resources, and offer prizes and bursaries to promote diverse voices.
womenshistoryscotland.org
#WomensHistory
Since 1995, we've connected people passionate about women’s and gender history in Scotland. We host events, provide teaching resources, and offer prizes and bursaries to promote diverse voices.
womenshistoryscotland.org
#WomensHistory
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The Broons story for the Hogmanay of 1944 is a masterpiece of Scots art which surpasses anything by Raeburn, Naysmith or the Colourists. This is a hill that I will die upon.
December 30, 2024 at 9:42 PM
The Broons story for the Hogmanay of 1944 is a masterpiece of Scots art which surpasses anything by Raeburn, Naysmith or the Colourists. This is a hill that I will die upon.
Tune in this evening to www.nts.live at 9pm to spice up your Daft Days with a neoclassicism/strum and drang/baroque mix 🎻🎶
December 28, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Tune in this evening to www.nts.live at 9pm to spice up your Daft Days with a neoclassicism/strum and drang/baroque mix 🎻🎶
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If you ever thought that searching a library catalogue is complicated, be reminded: this is how a book (in manuscript or print) in octavo with five pages or more and less than ten was categorized in a sixteenth-century European collection (from Hernando Colón).
A 🧵 for #earlymodern #bookhistory
A 🧵 for #earlymodern #bookhistory
December 12, 2024 at 8:16 AM
If you ever thought that searching a library catalogue is complicated, be reminded: this is how a book (in manuscript or print) in octavo with five pages or more and less than ten was categorized in a sixteenth-century European collection (from Hernando Colón).
A 🧵 for #earlymodern #bookhistory
A 🧵 for #earlymodern #bookhistory
It was such a privilege to present a paper at ‘Scotland’s Manuscripts: Making and Finding’ in Edinburgh last week. Many thanks so much to the team for their hard work in organising and delivering such a brilliant conference! 📜
We did it! So pleased with how 'Scotland's Manuscripts: Making and Finding' went. A lot of hard work and so grateful to my co-organisers, but it reminded me of the great great value in just getting MS scholars in the same room with some MSS to discuss. So important & doesn't always happen enough...
December 9, 2024 at 11:26 AM
It was such a privilege to present a paper at ‘Scotland’s Manuscripts: Making and Finding’ in Edinburgh last week. Many thanks so much to the team for their hard work in organising and delivering such a brilliant conference! 📜
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100+ archives & library special collections accounts have now joined Bluesky!
Welcome to
@britrecs.bsky.social
@guildhalllibrary.bsky.social
@theulspeccoll.bsky.social
@hartleyspecialc.bsky.social
@archives76.bsky.social
& catch up with more new arrivals in our starter pack at go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2
Welcome to
@britrecs.bsky.social
@guildhalllibrary.bsky.social
@theulspeccoll.bsky.social
@hartleyspecialc.bsky.social
@archives76.bsky.social
& catch up with more new arrivals in our starter pack at go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2
December 4, 2024 at 10:56 AM
100+ archives & library special collections accounts have now joined Bluesky!
Welcome to
@britrecs.bsky.social
@guildhalllibrary.bsky.social
@theulspeccoll.bsky.social
@hartleyspecialc.bsky.social
@archives76.bsky.social
& catch up with more new arrivals in our starter pack at go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2
Welcome to
@britrecs.bsky.social
@guildhalllibrary.bsky.social
@theulspeccoll.bsky.social
@hartleyspecialc.bsky.social
@archives76.bsky.social
& catch up with more new arrivals in our starter pack at go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2
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CONFERENCE: SRS 11th Biennial Conference | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents
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CONFERENCE: SRS 11th Biennial Conference | MEMOs
The University of Bristol is delighted to welcome the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference back to Bristol in July 2025.
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December 4, 2024 at 3:24 PM
CONFERENCE: SRS 11th Biennial Conference | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents
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Hi all, I've made a starter park of historians of the body - please shout if you'd like to be added/removed. I was in a rush so haven't added everyone yet! go.bsky.app/T5KnJ51 🗃️
December 3, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Hi all, I've made a starter park of historians of the body - please shout if you'd like to be added/removed. I was in a rush so haven't added everyone yet! go.bsky.app/T5KnJ51 🗃️
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🚨 #Skystorians: @cambridgeup.bsky.social, publisher of 'Renaissance Quarterly', has "temporarily enabled free access to all articles published since the 1st of January 2023; this will continue for all new articles published through the 31st of December this year" 🗃️ #EarlyModern
shorturl.at/BOw6L
shorturl.at/BOw6L
Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Renaissance Quarterly - Barbara Fuchs, Carina L. Johnson, Brian J. Maxson, John R. Decker
www.cambridge.org
December 2, 2024 at 6:16 PM
🚨 #Skystorians: @cambridgeup.bsky.social, publisher of 'Renaissance Quarterly', has "temporarily enabled free access to all articles published since the 1st of January 2023; this will continue for all new articles published through the 31st of December this year" 🗃️ #EarlyModern
shorturl.at/BOw6L
shorturl.at/BOw6L
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Recent updates, new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, prizes, and much much more... It's December's EMoDiR Newsletter!
Compiled by @martinamampieri.bsky.social and Francesco Quatrini, you can find it here:
www.academia.edu/125940588/EM...
#EarlyModern #skystorians
Compiled by @martinamampieri.bsky.social and Francesco Quatrini, you can find it here:
www.academia.edu/125940588/EM...
#EarlyModern #skystorians
November 29, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Recent updates, new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, prizes, and much much more... It's December's EMoDiR Newsletter!
Compiled by @martinamampieri.bsky.social and Francesco Quatrini, you can find it here:
www.academia.edu/125940588/EM...
#EarlyModern #skystorians
Compiled by @martinamampieri.bsky.social and Francesco Quatrini, you can find it here:
www.academia.edu/125940588/EM...
#EarlyModern #skystorians
Chuffed to have a piece (🥪) amongst great company in the latest issue of The Bottle Imp. Give it a read if you’re *hungry* for food and poetry in medieval and early modern Scotland 🍓🍰🍎🥕🍯 (apologies, food puns are too tempting)
LAND O CAKES
The new issue of THE BOTTLE IMP invites you to an all-you-can-eat literary feast of Scottish literature – from medieval health food to vegetarianism in contemporary fiction, via gender, folklore, oysters, cocktails & more!
May contain nuts.
1/7
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/cook...
The new issue of THE BOTTLE IMP invites you to an all-you-can-eat literary feast of Scottish literature – from medieval health food to vegetarianism in contemporary fiction, via gender, folklore, oysters, cocktails & more!
May contain nuts.
1/7
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/cook...
Cooking the Books - The Bottle Imp
From oats and barley grew the Land o Cakes, a deceptively sweet and fluffy moniker for a place of rough terrain and lashing rain. A thrifty lot, the early Pictish settlers mastered the art of making h...
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November 29, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Chuffed to have a piece (🥪) amongst great company in the latest issue of The Bottle Imp. Give it a read if you’re *hungry* for food and poetry in medieval and early modern Scotland 🍓🍰🍎🥕🍯 (apologies, food puns are too tempting)
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Call for submissions!
*Embodied Knowledge & Making Texts: A Handbook*
Please spread the word to academics & practitioners - @georginaemw.bsky.social and I have been overwhelmed and delighted by the response so far. It's going to be great!
www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...
*Embodied Knowledge & Making Texts: A Handbook*
Please spread the word to academics & practitioners - @georginaemw.bsky.social and I have been overwhelmed and delighted by the response so far. It's going to be great!
www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...
Call for submissions — Thin Ice Press
Call for contributors! We’re looking for craftspeople and academics to be part of an exciting volume on embodied knowledge and making texts.
www.thinicepress.org
November 24, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Call for submissions!
*Embodied Knowledge & Making Texts: A Handbook*
Please spread the word to academics & practitioners - @georginaemw.bsky.social and I have been overwhelmed and delighted by the response so far. It's going to be great!
www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...
*Embodied Knowledge & Making Texts: A Handbook*
Please spread the word to academics & practitioners - @georginaemw.bsky.social and I have been overwhelmed and delighted by the response so far. It's going to be great!
www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...
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Find out more about our new research network that hopes to bring together people who work with letters in all their various guises - from across all disciplines - at our website here:
epistolaryculture.wordpress.com
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Epistolary Culture in Early Modern Scotland
Epistolary Culture in Early Modern Scotland
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November 25, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Find out more about our new research network that hopes to bring together people who work with letters in all their various guises - from across all disciplines - at our website here:
epistolaryculture.wordpress.com
Feel free to repost!
epistolaryculture.wordpress.com
Feel free to repost!