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New Article – Antiquarianism: A Reassessment
I’m very pleased to write that a paper I’ve been working on for quite some time now, “Antiquarianism: A Reassessment”, will be forthcoming in the first 2017 issue of Erudition and the Republic of Letters. ERL is a relatively new journal – the brainchild of the immensely learned and collegial Mordechai Feingold – and well worth […]
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Stravaigin: Innis Bhuidhe, Killin
The highland village of Killin is bisected by the River Dochart which splits just below the old bridge there to form an island: Innis Bhuidhe (“yellow island” in Gaelic). Last week the Historian and I were in Killin. Having obtained the gate keys from the local librarian, we made our way onto the island itself, […]
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Cardinal Richelieu’s Scottish Poet
Amongst the many remarkable things preserved in the Scottish Catholic Archives is a small, richly-bound manuscript book: This is the album amicorum or friendship book of George Strachan, a young Scot from the Mearns, who travelled to the continent for his education at the end of the sixteenth century. Strachan’s story is a remarkable one – […]
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Perthshire Libraries: Leighton and Innerpeffray
Perthshire is unique in Scotland – perhaps unique in Britain – for containing two seventeenth-century public libraries, both still housed in purpose-built early modern buildings: the Leighton Library in Dunblane and the Innerpeffray Library in Innerpeffray. The Leighton Library was established in 1684 under the terms of the will of Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow […]
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Future of Early Modern Scottish Studies
It’s now only a few months until the Future of Early Modern Scottish Studies conference.
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Kelsey Jackson Williams 