Great visit & chat with writer & broadcaster James Crawford.

We have signed copies of his new Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland, just out from excellent Scottish Indy publisher Birlinn Books.

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My article 'Married Women, Testaments and Property in Sixteenth-Century Scotland' is finally out; based on a project I started with Cathryn Spence in 2014. It enters the debate about married women’s legal position, particularly their ability to own property, in pre-modern Scotland and how it compared with neighbouring countries, using testaments as a key source. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/shr.2023.0587
@histodons @histodon #Scotland #WomensHistory #Law #Medieval #earlymodern #LegalHistory #ScottishHistory

Happy #TartanDay!

This tartan is for the #Scottish #Clan "Cameron of Lochiel."

Among its most notable Clan Chiefs is Donald Cameron, the 22nd Chief of the Camerons, known as "The Gentle Cameron." (Born 1695, died 1748.)

During the #JacobiteRebellion of 1745, he fought for the cause of #BonniePrinceCharlie, but showed great mercy to the defeated city of Glasgow, which the city still recognizes today.

The Chief earned the name "Gentle Lochiel" for having spared #Glasgow when the #Stuart army retreated north, and in gratitude the citizenry decreed that the bells of the #TolboothKirk should forever be rung whenever his descendants passed through the city.

#Scotland #ScottishHistory #History #Tartan #Tartans #Cameron #Clans #ClanCameron #Jacobite #Jacobites #ScotsHistory #Genealogy #Geneadons #Histodons

The poem ends a bit sadly though. One day a group of carrion birds (ravens, kestrels, kites) get jealous and chase the phoenix back to her homeland, where she burns itself. In real life, Esmé and James VI were forcibly separated and Esmé was exiled back to France, where he died. Esmé also apparently sent his embalmed heart back to James which is pretty dark!

(lovely writeup here https://thehistoricalnovel.com/2022/02/09/queer-kings-queens-was-james-i-vi-gay/)

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Can anyone shed light on who "Lord Umpex Sinclair" was in 1644? Crossed the Tyne with the Scots army.

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Talking of cultural lines that disappeared. My Scottish family lines stuck fairly closely to the old naming tradition: First son after the father's father; second son after the mother's father; first daughter after the mother's mother; second daughter after the father's mother.

My grandparents (and Grandpa was English) were the first generation who didn't follow it. It took me a while to work out that Granny and her siblings WERE named that way, because her youngest brother was called Ian and the corresponding grandfather was John. Then it clicked: that's the same name. Since then I've discovered that Great-Uncle Ian (who I never knew, as he was killed in action in 1940) was 'officially' named John, which makes me think: My g-g-grandfather (great-uncle's namesake) appears on all the records as John Fraser, but surely his Gaelic-speaking family knew him as Ian.

A bit of a ramble, but worth untangling for the historical context. It says a lot about the status of Gaelic in the 19th and 20th Centuries, and feels important in connecting to that generation who migrated from the Higlands.

#Genealogy #Geneadons #ScottishHistory #FamilyHistory #ScottishAncestry #Ancestry

#Genealogy hat on this morning as the #1921ScotlandCensus has been released.

My favourite find has been the little 'G+E' in the 'Gaelic or English' column for my 76-year-old 2x great-grandmother. Not new information, as I already knew she was a Gaelic speaker, but lovely to see the evidence for that little connection to history.

Always sad that social conditions meant she and her husband (both native Gaelic speakers from the Highlands) didn't teach it to their children in Edinburgh. My granny (their granddaughter) tried to teach herself at one point, but never got very far. A cultural line broken.

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Zombie #academic, #histodon, #historian.

Recently back in academia after a break working in Texas state policy.

Currently studying forced migrations & deportations in the #SovietUnion under #Stalin regime, doing an area studies MA at the University of Texas at Austin

Previous PhD / postdoc work in
#BritishHistory #IrishHistory #ScottishHistory.

#NewHere :mastowink: I abandoned the bird place years ago, except to lurk, but since I study #migration, may as well join this one.

'For, as long as a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be subjected to the lordship of the English.'

Tja, die Declaration of Arbroath von 1320 einfach 1707 schon schlecht gealtert.

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Und dann liest man plötzlich so was hier über die Schlacht von Falkirk 1298:
'Meanwhile the main body of the army faced starvation and many Welsh were already dying. Edward ordered wine to be given to them to cheer their spirits, an unwise move. The wretched Welshmen got very drunk and in a serious brawl with the English several priests were slain.'
(Barrow, Robert Bruce and the community of the realm of Scotland, p. 131)
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