The Scottish Record Society

So delighted to receive copies of our new book! Coming in at almost 380 pages, it has ten super chapters, contains transcriptions & translations of key 15th C documents & has some v. useful maps courtesy of my co-editor, Giovanna Guidicini. Thank you @jillharrison1.bsky.social & all involved! ✨📖

Fisherrow?

Thank you!

#genealogy #LocalHistory #emigration #migration
#Arran #Australia #Scotland

New publications for 2025-2026! This year we have two (!) volumes, focussed on different islands: Arran (Arran Rentals, 1576-1780: accounts & testaments) and Australia (Life & Adventures of G. R. Nicoll, 1824-1901: travel journal of a Scottish shipwright/blockmaker) www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

East Jersey Bound: From Scotland to America in the 1680s

SHS and @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social are thrilled to announce a free, online event with Derrick Johnstone on Wednesday 11 Feb from 17:30 (UK)

Register here: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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[HBP#22] - Coralie Mills - Discovering Scotland's Past with Dendrochronology Podcast Episode · Heritage Buildings Podcast · 18/11/2025 · 1h 18m

As always, a fascinating podcast episode with Dendrochronoligist Dr. Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social on her work with Scottish woodlands and historic timber buildings podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

A selection of our past volumes! Each year the latest volume is sent out to members. To join, to buy back volumes, or to find details of submitting your own manuscript for consideration, go to: www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

Dr Pearce, you are a gentleman and a scholar! Thank you very much!

Perhaps 'sorows' then?

Here's the full page for context

Teardrops? Would that be embroidery work? Is there a name for them? Thank you Michael!

Help with #medieval #palaeography please! A 1497 purchase of a mort cloth by the Edinburgh Hammermen included three score ‘so[ri]nis’? Soriws? Note the ‘ri’ carrot glyph as in ‘w[ri]ttin’ several lines above.

I see! Wrong kind of host! Thank you Dr Pearce!

#medieval #palaeography help please! The Edinburgh Hammermen (1497) no ‘gathering’ of dues one week, due to the distribution (scalyne) of the communion Host (ost - Eucharist). It appears to say ‘from [something?]’. Any ideas? Perhaps a vessel, or maybe a time of the week? Apologies: poor photos!

Merry Christmas!

Rare public display for Mary Queen of Scots' final letter The letter was written in the cell where Mary had been imprisoned for 19 years, just hours before she was executed.

'Mary tells her brother-in-law, King Henri III of France, that she is "to be executed like a criminal at eight in the morning". The manuscript will be on show at Perth Museum for three months.'
On loan from @natlibscot.bsky.social
#skystorians 🗃️ 📚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #herstory
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New publications for 2025-2026! This year we have two (!) volumes, focussed on different islands: Arran (Arran Rentals, 1576-1780: accounts & testaments) and Australia (Life & Adventures of G. R. Nicoll, 1824-1901: travel journal of a Scottish shipwright/blockmaker) www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

Yes!

Thank you!

Thank you - that one seems to be the consensus! The superscript glyph looks like an ‘r’, so that must be it? Thank you!

Thank you - good to know you’re seeing a superscript ‘r’ as well… Merraman is a possibility!

It does look like an ‘m’ with a superscript ‘r’, doesn’t it?

#Museum30 theme 15 is #kindness. Thanks are accorded to all those who kindly gifted items over years to Dunblane Museum for its collection, many permanently on display, or in temporary exhibitions, or for access for research. Those who kindly donate when visiting the museum…/👇

Help please with #palaeography - what is Andro's surname? Or what word follows?

h/t @threadinburgh.scot for flagging up this new release about the medieval coal mine beneath the Forth. One day during some volunteer work at Culross Palace garden, we trudged out at low tide to see what we could see. It's still there, after all these hundreds of years.

'Scotland's oldest bakery' Alexander Taylor up for sale after 200 years Barry and Claire Taylor are the sixth generation to run Scotland's oldest bakery in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire.

'Scotland's oldest bakery' up for sale after 200 years www.bbc.com/news/article...

Villagers lose fight to stop ‘Sunset Song church’ being sold Arbuthnott church in Aberdeenshire that inspired the setting of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel is on the market for £45,000 after community attempts to save it fell through

Villagers lose fight to stop ‘Sunset Song church’ being sold

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2025 Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History!

Catriona M.M. Macdonald, The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History. Edinburgh: John Donald, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., 2024. ISBN: 9780859767200.

Congratulations, Dr. Macdonald! 🏆🎉

Read the jury's citation: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/scottis...

Find out more about @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social's lecture on Wednesday 22 October 2025. We're thrilled to have her kick off our new Winter Lecture Series with 'Editing the Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)'

Register below!

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