Roslyn Potter
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Scottish Lit PhD and GTA @UofGlasgow // @sgsah 🏴 early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 🎶 @century_17th 📚 she/her
Glasgow
Joined March 2020
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
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The year is 1649 and Lady Jean Wemyss has a headache. Since paracetamol won’t be invented for another several hundred years, Jean reaches for the next best thing: a handwritten recipe book. The cur…
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🎶 Songs and Fancies was first published in 1662 making it Scotland's oldest known printed music book. I wrote this piece celebrating it. Thanks to @soundyngs blog for hosting! https://t.co/E8T6N5z4Dy
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Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions also exist from e.g. the NLS). This post welcomes guest-author Roslyn Potter, who is …
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📢 Call for Blog Contributors in 2025! Women’s History Scotland is seeking blog posts on women’s and gender history in Scotland. Share your research, projects, or thoughts on exhibitions, talks, books, or films! For more details ➡️ https://t.co/RyxIxr3kwI
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New from @AmsterdamUPress - Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, & Material Culture Ed. @SarahABendall & @Serena_Dyer
https://t.co/Fn1V78AHCp Read the intro (no paywall!) here: https://t.co/k91qQagGaA
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Tune in this evening to https://t.co/r47RES9ewC at 9pm to spice up your Daft Days with a neoclassicism/strum and drang/baroque mix 🎻🎶
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CFP special issue, 'Cultures of Care in Scottish Women's Writing' 💜. Please share widely! 🙏
🌿CFP for a special journal issue of Scottish Literary Review @scotlit, entitled 'Cultures of Care in Scottish Women's Writing', edited by @SarahDunnigan1 and me. Please send abstracts for consideration by 30 January 2025. Full details below.🌿
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Invitation from the Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 Join us for a special roundtable, hosted by Valerie Schutte, to discuss her new collection of essays (co-edited with William Robison, forthcoming Palgrave). Participants are all contributors to the book.
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Call for Abstracts: Special Issue 'Scottish Futurities' in Anglistik (open access, Winter Verlag, Summer 2026). Deadline: 29 November 2024. 🏴 ✍️ Eds. Julia Boll (U of Konstanz) & Nina Engelhardt (U of Stuttgart) https://t.co/TtXuT6d8Fa
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I’m on the hunt for garments in museum collections that are stained with (known or conjectured) menstrual blood (from any time/place) 🩸 Do you know of any?
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Come work with us -- we're #hiring a Lecturer in Text/Image Studies (grade 7 or 8). Research, teaching, develop postgraduate programme... See 👉 https://t.co/fUufwXheMl details. In memmoriam Peter Davis, and ever grateful for his legacy ( https://t.co/x6PL8tUen7).
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Our bursary scheme is now open for applications! £750 available to early career researchers, independent scholars, or PhD students working on women's studies in our period (1558-1837). Deadline: 15 Dec 2024. Please spread the word! #funding #ECR #PhD
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Applications for 2025-2026 open on 1 November 2025 WSG is offering a bursary of £750 to an early career researcher*, independent scholar or PhD student who is a member of the WSG. The bursary is in…
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Calling all women's studies scholars: please spread the word about the @WSGUK bursary. £750 available to fund research in the field. #funding #ECR #PhD #AcademicWriting
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Calling all postdocs and early-career researchers! If you wish to apply for an IASH Fellowship for 2025-26, please join our webinar on Monday 9 Dec at 13:00 UK time. The event will be recorded. https://t.co/j94CGxvYgv
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Interested in studying 17th-19thC material culture, dec arts or histories of collecting/art market?! Come do a PhD with me! PhD scholarships now available at @EdiArtHistory @edinburghcollegeofart
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I urge you to explore more of Jacob's work. I can't get through 'The Wild Geese' without tears: https://t.co/83pccRCvFx
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Violet Jacob, known for her novels of Scottish history and her poetry written in the rich dialect of Angus, was born into an aristocratic family, and lived her adult life as an officer’s wife in...
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Jacob wrote this poem after the death of her son who was one of the many killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The way Jacob weaves Scottish folklore, tradition, and loss makes this tribute particularly heartbreaking.
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For those who don't know, I'm originally from Angus and Violet Jacob's work has always meant a lot to me. I'm nervous about sharing my version of this but here we go: ‘Halloween’ by Violet Jacob (1921), tune by Jim Reid.
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This is a marvelous introduction to Inglis and a great teaching tool. Two people have told me today that they passed it along to their students.
Heritage Collections at @CRC_EdUni are delighted to launch “Rewriting the Script”! This new online exhibition and research resource celebrates the life and works of Esther Inglis (c.1570-1624), curated by Anna-Nadine Pike. Explore the exhibition: https://t.co/Jlv1sTraJG (1/3)
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After more than 4 years of work, the @ScotCouncil online database is officially live! Providing a searchable edition of the Privy Council record for 1692-1708, it is a major milestone in Scottish historical scholarship. Check it out here: https://t.co/bNyBlikzxd
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