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Walter Scott country
Currently on BBC Sounds: Martha Kearney looks at how Walter Scott’s writing explored Scotland’s environmental history, & how he incorporated ecological themes in his novels, using landscapes as active components of storytelling.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00325d6
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #ecology #environment #environmentalism #Scotland
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National Gallery in London adds to its collection of women artists with Angelica Kauffman donation – The Art Newspaper
The National Gallery in London has acquired a key work by the Swiss 18th-century artist Angelica Kauffman, bringing…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #ThingstoDo #18thcentury #Acquisitions #AngelicaKauffman #artgallery #Londonartgallery #NationalGallery #womenartists
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/35518/ National Gallery in London adds to its collection of women artists with Angelica Kauffman donation – The Art Newspaper #18thCentury #Acquisitions #AngelicaKauffman #ArtGallery #London #LondonArtGallery #NationalGallery #WomenArtists
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Joanna Baillie’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥 (1810): A Virtual Public Reading
21 November, online. Free
The Baillie Working Group presents a virtual public reading & discussion of Baillie’s “Highland play”, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥 – an early example of the Scottish “National Drama”, exploring themes of identity, vengeance, & the politics of peace.
Zoom link: https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/93091876464
#Scottish #literature #theatre #theatrestudies #theatrehistory #drama #18thcentury #womenwriters #JoannaBaillie
From University of Basel, and machine-translated from German: 140 million pages of knowledge history accessible online: Four Swiss libraries launch the platform «Books as Data». “The platform ‘Books as Data’ makes the holdings of four academic libraries from the years 1700 to 1900 fully accessible and searchable. In addition to scholarly literature, the collection includes journals and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/27/university-of-basel-140-million-pages-of-knowledge-history-accessible-online-four-swiss-libraries-launch-the-platform-books-as-data/
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“Scottish authors Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton […] were popular and widely read in their own historical moment. As their names suggest, these were works concerned with propriety and expectation, but they were also experimental in their own ways.”
Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman on two Scottish female novelists who outsold & inspired Jane Austen
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #Regency #womenwriters #SusanFerrier #MaryBrunton #JaneAusten
The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders playing “Johnnie Cope”
3/3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIbaQOj4T60
#Scottish #literature #bagpipes #music #song #18thcentury #Jacobite #battle
“Now, ‘Johnnie Cope’ is one of the most magnificent sounds ever to issue from musical instruments. It is the Highlanders’ war clarion, the tune that is played before battle, the wild music that is supposed to quicken the blood of the mountain man and freeze the foe in his tracks…”
—George MacDonald Fraser, “Johnnie Cope in the morning”, from McAUSLAN IN THE ROUGH (1974)
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#Scottish #literature #bagpipes #music #song #18thcentury #Jacobite #battle
The Battle of Prestonpans was fought #OTD, 21 September 1745. The first major engagement in the Jacobite rebellion, Prestonpans was a stunning victory for the (mostly Highland) troops under Charles Edward Stuart. The song “Johnnie Cope”, composed very shortly afterwards, probably by Adam Skirving, exists in numerous versions & arrangements – including one by Beethoven – but it is originally a pipe tune.
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#Scottish #literature #bagpipes #music #song #18thcentury #Jacobite #battle
“Dazzling” – early modern historian of religion, emotions, and monsters Jenny Spinks reviews HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY ( @[email protected] ) in the American Historical Review!
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💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
Surekha Davies. Humans: A Mons...
“Dazzling” – early modern historian of religion, emotions, and monsters Jenny Spinks reviews HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY ( @[email protected] ) in the American Historical Review!
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💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
Surekha Davies. Humans: A Mons...
TEXTILIA LINNAEANA Global 18th Century Textile Traditions & Trade
QUOTES from the world within #Textiles #Art #Fashion #18thcentury #Clothes #Fibre #Ethnography #Travel #Naturalhistory #Geography #Dyes #Textilehistory #Weaving #Trade #Historyofscience #Books @itextilis.eurosky.social
520 pages, richly illustrated, incl. two genuine handmade Tapa cloth samples from Tonga.
EXPLORE > https://www.ikfoundation.org/books-and-art/textilia-linnaeana/
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⚓💥 THE TEN GIANTS THAT DIED AT THE ROCK
September 13
On the morning of September 13, 1782, a Franco-Spanish armada of ten colossal floating batteries — old warships rebuilt as rolling fortresses bristling with 138 heavy guns — surged toward the sheer cliffs of Gibraltar. But the Rock's defenders, armed with a new secret weapon of quick-firing carronades, tore the wooden giants apart: all ten batteries were destroyed, over 1,400 attackers were killed or wounded, and the Great Siege collapsed into a hopeless stalemate. It was the largest naval battle ever fought in the Mediterranean, and it ended in a single brutal morning.
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#OnThisDay #History #AIart #GenerativeAI #CinematicRealism #Gibraltar #18thCentury
An excerpt on AI & robots from the “Machines” chapter of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, 1st published by @[email protected], now out from @[email protected] in a South Asian edition, is out in Newslaundry!
🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
If the only value lies in what...
An excerpt on AI & robots from the “Machines” chapter of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, 1st published by @[email protected], now out from @[email protected] in a South Asian edition, is out in Newslaundry!
🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
If the only value lies in what...
📚 I just finished reading De Geschiedenis Van De VOC
by Femme S. Gaastra
The standard work on the VOC. I wish someone else would take a shot at writing about it, this is incredibly dry and more focussed on the financial and business side than on the political. But it does give a sobering picture and makes one wonder how a company being so mismanaged could last for 200 years.
My rating: ⭐⭐ (2/5 stars)
https://hayobethlehem.nl/library/book/de-geschiedenis-van-de-voc
#BookReview #Books #Reading #Nonfiction #History #EconomicHistory #TheNetherlands #17thCentury #18thCentury
A staged reading of Joanna Baillie’s 1798 comedy THE TRYAL. The text has been modified for the stage: it has been shortened but there is also a scene added to clarify the plot. This reading brings to life a text Baillie was unable to produce in her own day.
5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ksanlDElU
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #romanticism #drama #playwright #theatre #stage #romanticism
Joanna Baillie: Gothic Plays & Psychological Horror
Dr Helen Dallas explores the intersections of the Gothic, powerful emotions, psychology, & stage performance, & makes the case for what was innovative about Baillie’s work, & why she’s overdue a comeback
4/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgJGoCMk85A
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #romanticism #drama #playwright #theatre #stage #romanticism #gothic #horror
“the particular configuration of A Collection of Poems – a gathering of poems from various authors strictly to benefit a needy family, a family whose name was unknown to almost all of the subscribers – was certainly unusual & possibly unique in the Romantic era”
3/5
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #romanticism #drama #playwright #theatre #stage #romanticism
Joanna Baillie supported working-class poets & female writers. She inspired Byron & was considered by Harriet Martineau “second only to Shakespeare”. The Royal College of Surgeons of England has volumes of her work in their Research Room
2/5
https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/library-and-publications/library/blog/joanna-baillie/
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #romanticism #drama #playwright #theatre #stage #romanticism #workingclasswriters
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) was born #OTD, 11 Sep. Plays on the Passions, a series of female-led comedies & tragedies, brought Baillie fame during a period when serious drama was in decline. Her 256th birthday was commemorated by a Google doodle in 2018
A 🎂🧵
1/5
https://doodles.google/doodle/joanna-baillies-256th-birthday/
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #romanticism #drama #playwright #theatre #stage #romanticism
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I spoke with @[email protected] CEO Patrick Spero on the Useful Knowledge podcast! We discussed monster-thinking and first contact in #VastEarlyAmerica and in outer space.
🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵
I spoke with @[email protected] CEO Patrick Spero on the Useful Knowledge podcast! We discussed monster-thinking and first contact in #VastEarlyAmerica and in outer space.
🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵
The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @[email protected]! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making.
🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵
The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @[email protected]! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making.
🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵
iTextilis
From the Archive – Essay: Manufacturing & Home Weaving – A Study of Woollen Textiles from 1700 to 1750. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/manufacturing-home-weaving.html
From 2024: Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman examines the representation of English & Scottish national stereotypes in the novels of Scottish authors Susan Ferrier, Mary Brunton, & Elizabeth Hamilton
From the Reading Scotland project at the University of Mainz
10/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_OKYRVugZs
#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #MaryBrunton #ElizabethHamilton
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 is, then, a novel concerned with questions of morality & education, but also national identity, the differences between Scottish & English cultures…It is also very funny”
—Books & Borrowing, 1750–1830 on Susan Ferrier’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦
9/10
https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/forgotten-best-sellers-susan-ferriers-the-inheritance-1824/
#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #nationalidentity #Scottishidentity #Britishidentity #humour
“Miss Ferrier avowedly made thumb-nail sketches,—as is proved in one of the few surviving letters to or from her,—out of which grew the merciless caricatures that created her fame”
—an 1893 article in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 contrasting Sussan Ferrier & Jane Austen
8/10
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1893/06/miss-austen-and-miss-ferrier/529989/
#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #JaneAusten
“…the foibles of the Scottish characters are usually much less detestable than those of the English…”
Untrammelled by Theory: Susan Ferrier’s Polyphonic Vision of Scotland & the Union in 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦
—Benjamine Toussaint, SLR 8/1, 2016
Available via Open Access on Project MUSE
7/10
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/619276
#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #NationalTale
A 1996 BBC radio adaptation of 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 by Patricia Hannah was repeated in 2025 on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Sadly it’s not currently available but it might come back again…
6/10
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nn0f
#Scottish #literature #Regency #18thcentury #19thCentury #romanticism #WomenWriters #SusanFerrier #adaptation #radiodrama