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Sign up for our hybrid day-conference on Thomas Pennant's 'Travels at Home' in eighteenth-century Wales and Scotland
In Aberystwyth on Friday 20 September, follow the link for full programme and registration details!
https://t.co/7e74N6VSnG
Are you interested in a career in archives?
If so have a look at our handy webpage that has useful advice, guides and tips on getting a career in the archives and record management sector: https://t.co/hJXbGeeubT
Its #LighthouseDay and you can view historic plans and profile of lighthouses in our Stevenson collection https://t.co/qTv8em2JE6
Including this 1816 plan of Corsewall Lighthouse, Wigtownshire. https://t.co/MEpMK78vno https://t.co/0FHfZtcMFZ
#Lighthouse#Wigtownshire
Today is the day! 🏰✨
‘Renaissance: Scotland and Europe 1480 to 1630’, now open at the National Library of Scotland.
🖼️ Renaissance: Scotland and Europe 1480–1630
📌 George IV Bridge
️🎟️ Free entry
Plan your visit > https://t.co/R9gfpnget6
20 June 1620 Esther Inglis sends a remarkable and heartfelt letter to #KingJames, asking for a fellowship recommendation for her son Samuel. It's the only letter we have from her. Read about it at: https://t.co/e30eYyD8iw @nlsarchives@EstherInglis24
We are looking to appoint two Consultant Archivists for our Community Stories - Community Archives project which is funded by @HeritageFundUK
Find out more and apply here: https://t.co/SCaOKzHaX2
Mountaineer Harry MacRobert captures his fellow climbers on Buachaille Etive Mor. Taken on 9th June 1912, this comes from the climbing albums of MacRobert. (Acc.14275) #EYAOutside 🏔️🚶🏔️
This Pride Month we are spotlighting some of Scotland's LGBTQ+ archives. Throughout the month we will showcase each of them and tell you a bit about their collection and what they do.
Today we want to highlight the (Un)seen (Un)heard project.
https://t.co/6bhC2GQhae
We are turning 100 in 2025, and we want YOU to be part of the celebration! 🎉
From novels to knitting patterns, children's books to cookbooks, we want to hear about the books that mean something special to you.
📖 Share your stories > https://t.co/PhXhRhJ2ec
Do you have a nurse or midwife in your family history? 🩺📜
Trace their legacy with expert talks and research tips in a one-day event at the Library with @EdinburghNapier and @RCNLibraries.
🗓️ 10am-4pm, 5 June
📍 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
Learn more > https://t.co/HizZk7rP8u
Introducing the new Place and Poetry website https://t.co/hnyyB8XKYC
This website is dedicated to how places were presented, imagined, and described, in the poetry of premodern Scotland (medieval and early modern periods, c. 1400-1700). @SebMacV @BristolUni
We can't wait to receive your proposals for "Esther Inglis in contexts and culture", 19th-20th October 2024!
All the details can be found in this blog post
https://t.co/yXT5gReegO
... and in the call for papers below.
Please do share with all who may be interested!
During a visit to Scotland, @PresidentISL, @elizajreid and Icelandic Minister for Culture @liljaalfreds visited @natlibscot to view some of the cultural items from Iceland held in its collection.
"The books and writers I was already reading now make up the contents of the archives it’s my job to care for."
Read about how Colin McIlroy became our Curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts >
https://t.co/uTr9w9R6hj
Following on from our exciting @HeritageFundUK and @HeritageFundSco news, it means we are now recruiting for an archivist PM - find out all about this exciting role below:
https://t.co/q1SHGyYjVb
Last week we ran our symposium, The Sociability of Scottish Women Writers. Thank you so much to all our speakers for their rich & insightful papers & to attendees for their enthusiasm. Thank you too to the @natlibscot for providing such a wonderful manuscript display (1/2)
I wrote this blog on the fascinating Elcho-Wemyss reciept book (NLS MS 3031) for @WomensHistNet. Thank you to @nlsarchives for letting me use this photo and for carefully preserving these unique items for us to enjoy, ponder, and mine for information! 📚
https://t.co/umi0DlnaIS
Now live on website "Books & Borrowing: Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers, 1750-1830" there's a fabulous new database now able to be readily accessed (https://t.co/NWDImWPNXT) - & link on Leighton Library website https://t.co/n8bxbbd1zn. It's in trial & test phase.../🧵👇