Very much looking forward to the Durkan Lecture tomorrow evening, delivered by (friend the project!) Dr John McCallum. The lecture is entitled 'Emotion in Religious Controversy in Jacobean Scotland'. Book your place here: https://t.co/QQW4XQP33j
Come & look at our laboratory! We're using @WikibaseCloud to test some new approaches to managing our data.
Stay tuned as we add more of our data to this new tool.
https://t.co/hfETmkKeja
@Wolf_Q4 We're still a work in progress, for sure! We're looking to cover all of Scotland in the coming years.
In the meantime, if you could DM us with the names you're looking for, we'd be happy to try to help.
@Wolf_Q4 Hi Lorraine, not a silly question at all! Those boxes are there because several parishes in Lothian & Tweeddale were once a part of those other presbyteries. They were moved when new presbyteries were erected.
@restalrig And, of course, the eventful ending to the career of John Book (or Boig) in the 1640s & the petitioning of Marion Inglis in the 1650s & '60s!
These insights stem from our dataset of over 1,300 ministers & over 2,000 clerical appointments. Our data collection for areas outside of the Central Belt is at the v early stages so stay tuned as we add more precise detail.
Always check your data entry: out of over 2,000 entries, there's always one outlier!
Spare a thought for William Home, a seventeenth-century minister based in the Scottish Borders. Somehow, we doubt his time at Ayton ended in 664AD.
*ahem*
For those of you who couldn't attend our presentation at @NatRecordsScot, why not watch it on YouTube?
Find out more on how technology can help us understand a critical period of Scotland's past.
https://t.co/P0dKypaThu