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Peeling Back the Layers of an Eighteenth-Century Book
Amongst my weaknesses may be counted a taste for collecting the books I study. This led me, a few days ago, to be in the happy condition of owning a copy of Alexander Nisbet’s System of Heraldry, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1722-42), one of the heftier sets of antiquarian folios to be published by the eighteenth-century Scottish book […]
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Future of Early Modern Scottish Studies Programme Announced
It’s a real pleasure to finally be able to announce the fantastic line-up we have in store for us at January’s conference on the Future of Early Modern Scottish Studies. You can find the full programme here, but suffice it to say that there will be everything from globalisation studies to book history and from […]
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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 