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🎺🎺🎺2 years and 7,000+ pages of records later, we are delighted to announce the programme for our final project conference!

Thursday 26 October. Sign up to attend (in person or online) via Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/government-a…

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We are hosting a major conference to mark the end of the Scottish Privy Council Project. Paper proposals welcome on any aspect of early modern government and governance in Scotland, including international comparisons, but with special focus on c.1688-c.1707. Please share!

HUGE congratulations to our Research Fellow, Clare Loughlin, on her appointment at Aberdeen! They are very, very lucky to have you!

Excited to speak on behalf of the The Scottish Privy Council, 1692-1708 team and share some of my research into the often mysterious mess that lurks beneath the neat and tidy Privy Council Registers…

Don’t forget to RSVP via the Eventbrite link! #ScottishHistory #twitterstorians

Interesting (I hope) for fellow fans of James Stewart of Goodtrees (1635-1713): many of #PrivyCouncil 's endmost C18th meetings were held in his lodgings rather than Holyroodhouse. Imo, this speaks to the increasing volume of govt business dumped @ Lord Advocate's door after 1692.

Have said it before, but work I've being doing today has reminded me: the blasphemy trial of Thomas Aikenhead (1696-7) was one of the weirdest Scottish criminal trials in the whole of the early modern period. Bizarre and unprecedented from start to finish.

A great looking paper from Susanne 📚☕️🧶☮️ on the schedule here! The Scottish Privy Council, 1692-1708

Scottish 5 Shillings coin of Queen Anne. Dated 1705 and minted in Edinburgh, it’s one of the last Scottish coins ever struck. The final Scottish coins would be issued in 1706. From the Hunter Collection The Hunterian #Numismatics #ScottishHistory #Royal #Stuarts #History #Museums

Sort of have a love-hate thing for these volumes now… but I definitely love them more when I get to work them in person!

“Margaret Kay, a Horsewoman”

Named among 30 horsemen and footmen cited as witnesses before Privy Council in 1701.

How usual was this?

Thanks to all the speakers for the papers The Scottish Privy Council, 1692-1708 workshop.

The roundtable discussion was thoroughly enjoyable, thanks for putting up with my military history interjections. This is such an important project which is always fascinating to hear about!
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Our second project workshop takes place today in Dundee! It’s a hybrid event with people being beamed in from four continents… 👋🏻 🌍

Lots of decreets of deprivation of parish ministers by the The Scottish Privy Council, 1692-1708 in autumn 1689. Was something going on?

Don’t forget to register for our second workshop! Attend online or in person!

News of a hybrid event on 3 November from The Scottish Privy Council, 1692-1708 - including a paper from our consultant editor Allan Kennedy #history privycouncil.stir.ac.uk/workshops-and-…

Exciting stuff! Come along and find out how our research is getting on!