Kelsey Jackson Williams

Printing, researching, and teaching fae benorth the Forth

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  • Future of Early Modern Scottish Studies Conference Registration is OPEN

    I’m very pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Future of Early Modern Scottish Studies conference and can be accessed via the University of St Andrews’s online shop.  At only £20 for two days, a wine reception, and the conference dinner – thanks to the School of History and the Institute for Scottish…

    kelseyjacksonwilliams

    December 14, 2016
    Conferences
  • Lightning Talk on Carved Stones

    It’s always nice to discover recordings of talks you forgot had ever been recorded.  Point yourself in this direction for a four-minute lightning talk from last year answering the question, “why am I spending so much time wandering the countryside looking for carved stones”? http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/catch/staff/dr-kelsey-jackson-williams/ Copyright © 2016 Kelsey Jackson Williams

    kelseyjacksonwilliams

    December 8, 2016
    Carved Stones
  • 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…

    kelseyjacksonwilliams

    December 6, 2016
    Book History, Provenance
  • 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…

    kelseyjacksonwilliams

    December 1, 2016
    Uncategorized
  • 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…

    kelseyjacksonwilliams

    November 7, 2016
    Articles
  • 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,…

    kelseyjacksonwilliams

    November 4, 2016
    Carved Stones
  • 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 –…

    kelseyjacksonwilliams

    October 14, 2016
    Manuscripts, Poetry, Scottish Catholicism
  • 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…

    kelseyjacksonwilliams

    October 10, 2016
    Book History, Libraries
  • Future of Early Modern Scottish Studies

    It’s now only a few months until the Future of Early Modern Scottish Studies conference.

    kelseyjacksonwilliams

    September 23, 2016
    Conferences
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