Scottish Book Trust has published a preliminary findings report on Scotland's public libraries. These findings, based on a survey of public librarians, showcase the pressures faced by the library sector. Read our press release: scottishbooktrust.com/about/press-re… pic.x.com/umaljkapgs

Nobody born since October 1939 has undertaken National Service in the UK. Those people are now aged at least 85. This policy is aimed at winning the votes of people who never did National Service themselves but who want to force others to do it.

'‘Nowhere else in modern life, whether urban or rural, is there a public space where anyone can enter and remain without the expectation of payment or labour' Catch up on our latest research on the impact of Scotland's libraries. 📚 scottishbooktrust.com/our-research/t…

What do SCROLL editors envisage for the future of the series at its 20th anniversary? Sarah Dunnigan 🌿 stresses the importance of encouraging further research into historical traditions of women's writing. brill.com/SCRL De Gruyter Brill Literature & Culture

The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present. Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies: rensoc.org.uk/statement-on-t…

Do I like book festivals? Yes. Do I think they’re more deserving of saving than the planet & oppressed peoples (in this case, Palestinians)? No. The vilification of Fossil Free Books in this statement is unnecessary & very defensive of an extremely harmful political status quo

You don’t have to go to uni to succeed. But there’s a difference between “you don’t have to” & “we’re going to make it functionally impossible unless you were born into astonishing privilege.” Not everyone needs or wants to pursue a degree. But everyone should be ABLE to.

Glesga Review o Buiks launches a dedicatit Scots strand. Hae a deek at oor submission guidelines - and gie us a shout gin ye'd like tae contribute a review, an interview, or an essay! glasgowreviewofbooks.com/scots-aboot/

It's time to call out these comments. When I started my career, the BBC called a programme I went on, about debt crisis "Hey Big Spender" - I objected. The biggest cause of debt crisis was change of circumstance. Since we've had a pandemic, cost of living crisis, mental health

“I wanted to show that nature can still beat the machine and that there is still merit in real work from real creatives."

"Archives are not inert historical collections. They always stand in an active, dialogic, relation to the questions which the presents puts to the past; and the present always puts its questions differently from one generation to another." Stuart Hall, "Constituting an archive"

love always wins 🩷🏳️‍🌈

We thoroughly enjoyed listening to Caitlin Flynn, Joanna Martin, and Emily Hay at yesterday's panel on communicating early modern Scotland #WCSL24

Had a fab time with IASSL at the 4th World Congress of Scottish Literature last week, which featured friends, sun, presentations and (a surprising amount of?) geese! Many thanks to Nottingham English for hosting and to all who attended for their kind words and thoughts💡

Thrilled to be in Switzerland for the rest of this summer thanks to the SGSAH engagement fund 🇨🇭Kicking it off by taking a French language course Lettres UNIL for the next 4 weeks ☀️On y va!

#medievaltwitter collectively whoops for Christine de Pizan! Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis #OpeningCeremony

Wid ye look at that! 🏆 A host ae fantastic nominees fur oor Scots Language Awards! We'll be sharing info on aw the nominees o'er the next while. We git stairted wi these talented writers n braw books for adults an bairns - who's git your vote? 📚 scotslanguageawards.com

I'm so pissing sick of this bad faith reporting. It's absolutely the job of historians to deconstruct pervasive narratives about the past. There are no "safe" narratives or perfect truths that should be considered sacrosanct. This is not erasure, this is exposure and expansion

While the bureaucracy of French archives continues to confound me (seriously, why is it like this) you do have to admit they know how to choose their settings 🇫🇷📚