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Examining the “Edinburgh University Coterie”: Networks of Cultural Influence in the 1790s and 1800s
11 Feb, Edinburgh & online. Free

Dr Amy Wilcockson’s ongoing IASH project explores a remarkable circle of Edinburgh University classmates who brought Scottish ideas, ideals & stories to the heart of British culture

@litstudies

https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-amy-wilcockson-examining-‘edinburgh-university-coterie’-networks-cultural-influence-1790s

#Scottish #literature #history #culture #18thcentury #19thcentury #Edinburgh

Assoc for Scottish Literature

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Examining the “Edinburgh University Coterie”: Networks of Cultural Influence in the 1790s and 1800s
11 Feb, Edinburgh & online. Free

Dr Amy Wilcockson’s ongoing IASH project explores a remarkable circle of Edinburgh University classmates who brought Scottish ideas, ideals & stories to the heart of British culture

@litstudies

https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-amy-wilcockson-examining-‘edinburgh-university-coterie’-networks-cultural-influence-1790s

#Scottish #literature #history #culture #18thcentury #19thcentury #Edinburgh

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Robert Burns & the How-to of Barrel Gauging

“Alongside the expansion of the state in this period, scientific advances greatly enhanced methods for measuring and taxing goods, and in turn required officials proficient in these complex practices.”

James Fox looks at Robert Burns’s own copy of The Excise Officer’s Pocket Companion

https://howtobook.hypotheses.org/5697

#Scottish #literature #history #RobertBurns #18thcentury #BookHistory #HistoryofScience #HistoryofMathematics