Reposted by Victor Arthur Brown
What can PhD researchers learn from a ceilidh? 🕺📚
From Gay Gordons to Strip the Willow, guest blogger Joshua MacRae dances through history, academia, and Burns Night reflections.
Take the floor—read the full blog: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/27/d...
From Gay Gordons to Strip the Willow, guest blogger Joshua MacRae dances through history, academia, and Burns Night reflections.
Take the floor—read the full blog: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/27/d...
Take the Floor: A PhD Researcher’s Guide to the Ceilidh
Following the SGSAH Year 1 Residential in Stirling—and Burns Night—guest blogger Joshua MacRae leaps through the history of cèilidh dancing, his personal favourite dances, and what academics can le…
sgsahblog.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM
What can PhD researchers learn from a ceilidh? 🕺📚
From Gay Gordons to Strip the Willow, guest blogger Joshua MacRae dances through history, academia, and Burns Night reflections.
Take the floor—read the full blog: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/27/d...
From Gay Gordons to Strip the Willow, guest blogger Joshua MacRae dances through history, academia, and Burns Night reflections.
Take the floor—read the full blog: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/27/d...
Reposted by Victor Arthur Brown
To celebrate Burns Night on Sunday, I wrote an article for @theconversation.com about the role that Robert Burns played in the afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Have a read below!
Have a read below!
Robert Burns and Mary, Queen of Scots: how the poet shaped the enduring cultural legacy of the executed monarch
The queen was the source of much debate among 18th-century thinkers.
theconversation.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:42 PM
To celebrate Burns Night on Sunday, I wrote an article for @theconversation.com about the role that Robert Burns played in the afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Have a read below!
Have a read below!
Glasgow Green.
January 18, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Glasgow Green.
Reposted by Victor Arthur Brown
Famous for his war correspondence and popularising of the term ‘First World War’, Repington is one of a number of unlikely 20thc figures fascinated by Mary.
His ‘faithful’ fictional portrayal of Mary is introduced as an antidote to biographies of the Queen insufficient in ‘historical truth’.
His ‘faithful’ fictional portrayal of Mary is introduced as an antidote to biographies of the Queen insufficient in ‘historical truth’.
January 7, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Famous for his war correspondence and popularising of the term ‘First World War’, Repington is one of a number of unlikely 20thc figures fascinated by Mary.
His ‘faithful’ fictional portrayal of Mary is introduced as an antidote to biographies of the Queen insufficient in ‘historical truth’.
His ‘faithful’ fictional portrayal of Mary is introduced as an antidote to biographies of the Queen insufficient in ‘historical truth’.
Reposted by Victor Arthur Brown
A striking image of Mary, Queen of Scots in Etonian Charles à Court Repington’s blank-verse play ‘The Life and Death of Marie Stuart’ (1923).
Very little information is available about the text or its Scottish illustrator R.E. Balfour (Ronald Egerton Balfour, 1896-1941).
Would love to know more!
Very little information is available about the text or its Scottish illustrator R.E. Balfour (Ronald Egerton Balfour, 1896-1941).
Would love to know more!
January 7, 2026 at 1:39 PM
A striking image of Mary, Queen of Scots in Etonian Charles à Court Repington’s blank-verse play ‘The Life and Death of Marie Stuart’ (1923).
Very little information is available about the text or its Scottish illustrator R.E. Balfour (Ronald Egerton Balfour, 1896-1941).
Would love to know more!
Very little information is available about the text or its Scottish illustrator R.E. Balfour (Ronald Egerton Balfour, 1896-1941).
Would love to know more!
Reposted by Victor Arthur Brown
A quick Vinted search reveals some of the weird and wonderful world of 20th-century Mary Queen of Scots memorabilia…
January 16, 2026 at 4:04 PM
A quick Vinted search reveals some of the weird and wonderful world of 20th-century Mary Queen of Scots memorabilia…