schneckenhaus6h ago
Stiftsgården ist eines der größten Holzgebäude Skandinaviens und wurde im 18. Jhd als repräsentatives Stadthaus errichtet. Heute dient es als offizielle Residenz der norwegischen Königsfamilie in Trondheim.
24.05.2026, #travel #Scandinavia #Norway #Trøndelag #Trondheim #Stiftsgården #architecture #18thcentury #royal #heritage #woodenbuilding #history [2]
The Vulgar Tongue2d ago

Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.

[18th-century-content warning: possible racism, animal cruelty, homophobia, sexism, slut-shaming. Let me know of any problems.]

#FollowFriday #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang #18thCentury

Mick Garratt3d ago

Drawing the Blood String: An 18th-Century Ritual

I had to negotiate this suckler herd grazing quietly under Easby Moor today. That stare. Intense, almost hostile. Yet these were docile animals, and generally always have been — which is precisely why farmers could do things to them that would make a surgeon wince.

Yorkshire has a ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/06/17/drawing-the-blood-string-an-18th-century-ritual/

#LittleAyton #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #agricultural #history

Mick Garratt4d ago

Ticksey How

The Smeathorns Road across the moor to Castleton. I have ridden it more times than I can count, and today I nearly missed it again.

A boundary stone. Right there, behind the stock fence.

Weathered sandstone, inscribed “S Ticksey how” — marking the old boundary between the parishes of Stanghow and Moorsholm. The wire mesh and barbed wire arrived a c ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/06/16/ticksey-how/

#MoorsholmMoor #NorthYorkMoors #StanghowMoor #18thcentury #history

Show threadAssoc for Scottish Literature4d ago

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the publick expence, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion”

—Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, vol. III (1776)

Adam Smith ſays tax the rich

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#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #economics #AdamSmith #tax #taxation #tax_the_rich

Show threadAssoc for Scottish Literature4d ago

“All writers have ideas for books they will never write. Mine is ADAM SMITH’S GUIDE TO PARENTING, an attempt to de-throne mummy & re-anoint society as the prime mover in child development”

—As we confront how time spent in digital spaces impacts socialisation & child development, Allyson Stack looks at Adam Smith’s THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS for inspiration

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https://www.imaginedspaces.org/new-writing/adam-smith-guide-to-parenting

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #AdamSmith #parenting #socialmediaban

Adam Smith’s Guide to Parenting — IMAGINED SPACES

As we confront how time spent in digital spaces impacts socialization and child development, we could do worse than look to Adam Smith and Jane Austen. Both writers, in their own ways, dig deeply into questions such as how do individuals acquire a moral compass? What does this process look like? Wha

IMAGINED SPACES
Assoc for Scottish Literature4d ago

“not only is there no invocation of the free market […] Smith does not believe in a capitalist marketplace wholly free from restriction or regulation”

—Adam Smith (1723–1790) was baptised #OTD, 16 June (NS). Evan Gottlieb examines Smith’s “Invisible Hand”. Evan Gottlieb examines Smith’s “Invisible Hand”

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/invisible-hand-over-fist-on-the-development-and-legacy-of-adam-smiths-famous-phrase/

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #economics #AdamSmith

(Invisible) Hand Over Fist: On the Development and Legacy of Adam Smith's Famous Phrase - The Bottle Imp

‘The invisible hand’ is probably the most recognizable catchphrase of economic talk today. Invoked by supporters of capitalism, it insists upon the essential wisdom and naturalness of allowing financial decisions to be made by unfettered market forces rather than by individual or institutional actors; as U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney liked to tell his supporters […]

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Assoc for Scottish Literature5d ago

“A Jacobite By Name?”: Jacobitism in the Life & Work of Robert Burns
5 July, Ellisland – £4

Patrick Jamieson explores how ideas of identity, naming & political memory shaped Burns’s engagement with Jacobitism throughout his life & writing

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-jacobite-by-name-jacobitism-in-the-life-and-work-of-robert-burns-tickets-1990504417295

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #18thcentury #Jacobites #romanticism #poetry

'A Jacobite By Name?': Jacobitism in the Life and Work of Robert Burns

Explore Jacobitism, identity and naming in Burns’s life and poetry with Patrick Jamieson, University of Glasgow PhD scholar.

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Show threadAssoc for Scottish Literature6d ago

James Hutton that true son of fire who said
to Burns “Aye, man, the rocks melt wi the sun”…

—Edwin Morgan thought so, & was inspired – by Burns & Hutton – to write “Theory of the Earth”: one of his SONNETS FROM SCOTLAND, first published in New Writing Scotland 2, 1984

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#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #20thcentury #RobertBurns #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime #science #geology #sonnet

Show threadAssoc for Scottish Literature6d ago

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun…

James Hutton met Robert Burns in 1787. Later that year, Burns chose to visit some of the sites discussed in Hutton’s THEORY OF THE EARTH. Is there an echo of Hutton’s “deep time” – oceans evaporating, rocks melting – to be heard in Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” (pub. 1794)?

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https://sunnydunny.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/robert-burns-and-geology/

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #romanticism #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime #science #geology

Robert Burns and geology

I was invited to give a talk on Robert Burns and geology to a meeting of the Geological Society in its day-long celebration of poetry and geology on 10th October.  Several friends have asked me for…

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