A major collaborative research project between the Universities of Stirling and Dundee. With support from the Leverhulme Trust.
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Announcing the official launch of the Scottish Privy Council Records website! Join us at Stirling on 24 October.
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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/governmen…
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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, @ClareTLoughlin, on her appointment at Aberdeen! They are very, very lucky to have you!
Delighted to see that Clare Loughlin has been appointed to @aberdeenuni Lectureship in the Jacobite World with support from outside organisations including ourselves @ Jacobite Studies Trust-jacobitestudiestrust.org @FunkyPlaid @JacobiteWars @JacobiteTruth @HistoryScotland
“Margaret Kay, a Horsewoman”
Named among 30 horsemen and footmen cited as witnesses before Privy Council in 1701.
How usual was this?
Our second project workshop takes place today in Dundee! It’s a hybrid event with people being beamed in from four continents… 👋🏻 🌍
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We are excited to share details of our second project workshop!
3 November 2022. Attend either in person or online.
Full programme available on our website: privycouncil.stir.ac.uk/file…
The whole Privy Council team is here in Paris, ready to give our papers to the ICHRPI conference in the magnificent surroundings of the Assemblée Nationale. We hope France is ready for the Scots!
Our whole project team is in #Paris this week to participate in the @ichrpi conference! #ScottishHistory #politics #history
Well if they’re anything like our council meetings we’d have to disagree 😜
The Registers may be polished but lots of registered disagreement in the minutes! Also the odd escaped prisoner and fisticuffs outside the door in Parliament close… wish that was televised!
Are all Privy Council meetings going to be televised from now on? It would make for its own very boring channel, BBC Privy Council (which I am volunteering to present, of course)
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11 April 1705: a Privy Council meeting is disrupted by a 'most insolent Convocation and Tumult'. The mob also attacked the Lord Chancellor's coach, breaking the windows and forcing the chancellor and other PC members to 'quyte the Coach and retire for their Safety'.
Our project team had a great meeting yesterday discussing all the exciting ways we’re going to share our research!
Stay tuned!
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An excellent programme has just been confirmed for the @ichrpi meeting in Paris, three weeks from today.
Can't wait to see you all there!!!
#HistParl @ScotCouncil
Summer 1692: Privy Councillors call for an inventory of the late Bishop of Dunblane’s “bibliothecary” (library) and “consider what may be the most effectually methods necessary to be taken for the preservation and safe custody of these books”
PC2/24, f.91v
#otd 1692
A council proclamation offers £100 reward after “a persone mounted on horseback with a sword about him And another persone on foot with a pistoll in his hand Did invaid and fall upon the post boy upon the Highway from Haddington to Edinburgh… and violently robbed him”
Taking place near Jock’s Lodge, the thieves got away with all the mail headed north from England - including letters address to the Scottish Privy Council
Image: @Scranlife
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Thanks Kit! We loved your paper on those Scottish readers travelling abroad too!
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Members of our project team are speaking at @EighteenthCSSS’ Annual Conference this week. @robbiethetree will place the Scottish Privy Council in European Context whilst @Sus_Weston will discuss penal transportation & royal mercy liverpool.ac.uk/eighteenth-c…
Research fellow @lauraidoak will talk on foreign conflict and forced impressment. And @ClareTLoughlin will deliver two papers: the Council and international Protestantism; and 18th-century anti-Catholicism
Military costs for Scotland’s garrisons and standing forces, 1693.
£54418 and 8s per annum.
The risks of internal disorder and the Jacobite threat were clearly expensive problems! Image: NRS PC1/48, p.583
In case you missed it last week - check out the #cfp for our second workshop, to take place @Dundee_Scots this autumn 👇🏼
🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS! 🚨
Our second workshop on the Scottish #PrivyCouncil will take place this autumn at @dundeeuni. Proposals warmly invited for 20-minute papers on any and all aspects of the Council's role in pre-1708 Scotland!
