Mountquhanie Castle, Fife , Scotland
Text from the will of Jonet Beaton, lady Condland, including a debt to James Hunter, a glazier based in Edinburgh
When Jonet Beaton, lady Condland, lived at Mountquhanie in the 1570s she employed James Hunter, a glazier from Edinburgh to fix the windows (and called the place 'Balquhany')
There is a wikipedia article about 'Frognal House' aka Frog Pool
There's a monumental brass at Edensor to James Beaton (died 1570), which is a good example of the sort of thing Mary, Queen of Scots, imported from Paris, as well as being exceptionally informative. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Be...
Screen grab of a call for papers at Leeds IMC. The text reads: TIME FOR CHANGE: TEMPORALITIES & CASTLES Call for Papers - Leeds IMC 6-9 July 2026 - 'Temporalities' What is a castle in time? Is there a time of castles, for castles? Can castles be atemporal? What does a castle studies engaging with questions of temporality look like? Whose castle temporalities matter? Can we call time on the castle studies of yesterday, yesteryear? Can the lens of temporality challenge castle knowledges and interpretations? This panel welcomes proposals which examine temporalities and temporalities in castle studies as a field of inquiry at the intersection of (among others) medieval studies, architecture, archaeology, history, heritage and medievalism. Papers of between 15-20 minutes, by researchers at all career stages, discussing any aspects of castle studies research including but not limited to the following, are welcome: • Temporality in castle studies; • Remembering and memorializing in castle Obscured history, identities and heritages in spaces, communities, themes: past and castles past and present present; • Medieval temporalities and the heritage • Temporally situated antiquity, novelty and innovation in castles; • Planning, timing, scheduling, recording in • castle communities, lives, societies; • Ruined, lost and fictional castles in time Parallel and contradictory times; • Time and temporality in the reception of castles; Please send proposals (a title and abstract of no more than 200 words; short biography of 50 words or less), or any questions, to Dr William Wyeth (william.wyeth@english-heritage.org.uk) by 15 September 2025. This session is organised by Emma Fearon (Nottingham Trent University) and William Wyeth (English Heritage)
Please share: due to withdrawal I have a space on my castles panel for #LeedsIMC.
If you’ve an idea needs airing on time and temporalities in castles, give me a shout/submit via link! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... @imc-leeds.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social
Original CfP below ⬇️
Sign saying ‘our bartenders are so light fingered they could be concert pianists’ Why, are they going to rob me?
I feel they have misunderstood this expression:
Just a reminder... Tomorrow, 5 March, 5.30 pm ✨ Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social ,
and Michael Powell Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social speaking on "Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England" Sign-up in person & online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Are you a PG student or ECR interested in presenting at our conference ‘Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750’ in June?
Bursaries to help with expenses are generously funded by @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so please send us your abstract by 14 March!
clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
A grant to the gold prospector Cornelius de Vos to make salt at Newhaven, Edinburgh, 24 May 1567. description is painful: www.capitalcollections.org.uk/view-item?i=...
An exciting release from the IMEMS Press with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social! Many congratulation to its author, Dr Sara Ayres.
The second one may well be this 1561 title, Verae alchemiae artisqve metallicae: archive.org/details/vera...
Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.
How does he sleep at night?
New from @imems.bsky.social The Grand Tour of Prince George of Denmark in England, 1669 is an annotated diary describing the politics, cultural richness and practicalities of elite educational travel in England during the early reign of Charles II. Read more > buff.ly/jAXnZqB @saraayres.bsky.social
Our beautiful Turkish bath is 150 years old! In this illustrated talk, art historian Dr Ailsa Boyd @ailsaboyd.bsky.social will discuss 'The Arlington Baths, The Alhambra and Owen Jones: Islamic architecture and design in the 19th century’. Fri 13 Mar, 7pm, free!
📣 Still time to get your abstract in for 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', a two-day conference to be held at Oxford on 18/19 June 2026. Generously supported by Corpus Christi, @oxfordcems.bsky.social, and @srsrensoc.bsky.social.
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Chamberlain Letters, 2 vols, seems a bargain at £20
Features to note: painted floor at foot of main staircase, and en-suite to bedroom (pictured) is in the outshot entrance porch
Article in today’s Herald already posted by others but behind a paywall, so here’s an old school version. Apologies in advance to all those colleagues who never get credit in a feature like this.
New blog post on a somewhat neglected aspect of fashion at court in the 1550s and 1560s: vanishedcomforts.org/2026/02/18/j...
A scene of several persons preparing food for horses.
#AnimalHistory hive mind: what did city #horses eat in Early Modern Germany?
@jnisly-goretzki.bsky.social
This is a scene from late 17th century Hamburg. I’m interested in what grain was used and what the guy in the bottom left mixed together. Thanks.
Calvin's comment was that 'women will spare no cost to make themselves fine: yea they will pinch their bellies, and offer violence to nature itself, that they may have wherewith to attire themselves the more costly & sumptuously'
A panel with a similar figure was sold on eBay last week
We are excited to announce the publication of a new collection of essays by WSG members, Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange, 1550–1850, edited by @breerob-kirk.bsky.social and @louiseduckling.bsky.social
Congratulations to everyone involved! womensstudiesgroup.org/2026/02/19/p...
Make Ready! 🏰 On 3 March, Isobel Barnard from @kingshistory.bsky.social will present: ‘The Castle in 14th Century Scotland: A Sociological Study of Masculine Identity'.
🗓️ 03 March
⏰ 17:30 GMT
🏛️ IN PERSON @ihr.bsky.social & 💻 ONLINE
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Robert Pitcairn at his most radical on the arbitrary and despotic character of James VI, p. 349 archive.org/details/crim...
Well, if there was a handy raised platform to market items to the crowd. Robert Pitcairn thought it was all particularly unreasonable, and assumes that James VI was extra-pernickity about his kingliness in the years pre 1603
Well, there are some suggestions in the NMS Decoding the Jewels book at p. 75, which is free to read online: www.sidestone.com/books/decodi...
Garnets in 16th-century Edinburgh
vanishedcomforts.org/2026/02/16/a...
At 0 degrees Kelvin an ideal gas exerts no pressure, what could more intuitive
I suppose they are thinking Adam Smith's 'Theory of Moral Sentiments', just the title
Happy VD day! Hot off the press on this lovely Valentine’s Day- THE DREADED POX - a history of having and living with VD (venereal disease) in London hundreds of years ago. www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
