“Traist cousing, we greit ȝow well” The @innerpeffray.bsky.social on deciphering a #C16th Middle Scots letter signed by Mary, Queen of Scots, & written in Scottish Secretary Hand – a difficult shorthand script used as a form of anti-forgery #palaeography innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/deciphering-...

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Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland: Tales and Traditions Collected Entirely from Oral Sources, by John Gregorson Campbell (Glasgow, 1902) is available as a free ebook via @gutenberg.org www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58894

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Heart of Darkness (book) and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (film) are 2 texts utterly ruined for me after being forced to study them too many times in school. At least 4 classes each. 🤮

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Not really a surprise that I've read 8 of these. I'll get to Clarissa someday, but sorry, Ivanhoe, life is too short for me to spend any more of it being bored by Sir Walter Scott.

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Read at least half of them (several courtesy of PG). They still have value. I like to think our reactions to the aspects we now find abhorrent are signs of humanity's progress.

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