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Interview with Historically Thinking
I was tremendously pleased recently to be interviewed by Al Zambone at Historically Thinking about The First Scottish Enlightenment. You can listen to us chat about Enlightenment, intellectual culture, and the challenges of doing history here.
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The Origins of Scottish Copperplate Engraving (Musical and Otherwise)
Originally posted on Karen McAulay, Musicologist: It is with great pleasure that we share our second guest blogpost, this time by Dr Kelsey Jackson Williams, Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Stirling, and Printer, The Pathfoot Press. If you’ve ever wondered what the process of music engraving actually entails, then your questions are…
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The Pathfoot Press: Six Months In
When I came to my job interview at Stirling, I was full of big ideas, not all of them very practical. One particularly far-fetched scheme I had was to propose developing a bibliography course at postgraduate level and equipping a print room for use by the students. I laid this out in my job talk,…
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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…