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  1. Everything is horrible, but CHALLENGING HISTORIES, a new #podcast from @[email protected], hosted by @[email protected], drops on 14 September!

    Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. It's never been more important to understand the past and its legacies.

    🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #medieval

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4zf2vfijfc2pfzz6nr3whfqx/post/3muwc5c77ik2o

  2. Douglas Kay & Martin Philip – AKA the folk duo The Sorries – recorded a podcast about “Killiecrankie”, discussing the publication of the song, the figures & events which inspired it, & how it played a pivotal role in bringing the pair of them together

    scottishsongguide.com/2015/09/

    #Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury #battle #Jacobite #song #folksong

  3. Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad?
    Whare hae ye been sae brankie, O?
    Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad?
    Came ye by Killiecrankie, O?

    —“Killicrankie”, from James Hogg’s JACOBITE RELICS OF SCOTLAND (1819).

    The Battle of Killiecrankie ⚔️ was fought #OTD, 27 July, 1689. A Jacobite force led by Ewan Cameron of Lochiel & Viscount Dundee defeated a Scottish government army commanded by Hugh Mackay

    #Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury #battle #Jacobite #song #folksong

  4. More musical angels.
    These ones come from the roof of the Santuario della Beata Vergine dei Miracoli in Saronno, and were painted by Gaudenzio Ferrari who died in Milan on this day in 1546.
    Some lovely details of instruments and music books.

    #otd #OnThisDay #OnThisDayInHistory #OnThisDayInHistory #iconography #earlymusic #gaudenzioferrari #saronno #renaissance #earlymodern #musicaliconography #histodon #histodons #lute #violin #vielle #viol #violadabraccio #harp #psaltery #bagpipe #bagpipes #musicalangel #angelmusician #angelmusicians