@AGroundw

C16/17 Scottish & British historian: Union of the Crowns (1603), #borders, objects, networks, maps, museums, James VI & I, & oh yes, #Maryqueenofscots

 Edinburgh, Scotland
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Joined November 2011
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It’s arrived! Connecting Scotland’s History! Updated renamed edition of my Scottish history timeline set alongside that of events in British and world histories. Happy to see it here and to be talking it at #edbookfest @edbookfest on 18 August 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎺 @LuathPress
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⁦@LNER⁩ excuse me, this hasn’t arrived it’s running 1.20 hours late. Is this your way of dodging refund!?
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@lner literally a joke. We are at Hartlepool
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Last minute stocking filler? Scottish history novice or enthusiast? Connecting Scotland’s History can be with you tomorrow 🎉🎄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿join all the other unicorns🦄🎅@LuathPress
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Anna Groundwater@AGroundw27 Jan 2023
In the world re-made, it will be mandatory to visit your local #museum once a year, & not just for coffee. Monitors will check you've spent 10 minutes looking at one object. Suggestions for new displays & collecting will be encouraged. Then you can consume🧁Thank you
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Are you in museums or galleries? Do you do Renaissance-era research? Apply NOW to @SRSRenSoc award to support such a research project upto £1,000. Deadline 1 December! It could get you to that crucial archive or museum! rensoc.org.uk/funding-prizes…
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Luath Press@LuathPress31 Oct 2025
✨BOOK EVENT✨ 👤 Anna Groundwater 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 📍Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway 📆 1 November ⏰ 10:30am 🎟 buff.ly/fekUapY #AllowayWhatsOn #History #HistoryBook #ScottishHistory #BookEvent
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Luath Press@LuathPress30 Oct 2025
✨BOOK EVENT✨ 👤Gerda Stevenson 📍Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway 📆 2 November ⏰ 2:30pm 🎟 buff.ly/8q79OJJ #AllowayWhatsOn #BookEvent
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Connecting Scotland's History is back in stock! Read more about it in this kind review of its previous edition (Scotland Connected) from Donald McCormick in the @Scottishleftrev scottishleftreview.scot/book… #Scotland #scottishhistory #history

Book Review

Donald McCormick on a 'crackin' book which provides a timeline for Scottish history in the wider world.

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Luath Press@LuathPress26 Sep 2025
✨BOOK EVENT✨ 👤 Anna Groundwater 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 📍Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway 📆 1 November ⏰ 10:30am 🎟 buff.ly/fekUapY #AllowayWhatsOn #History #HistoryBook #ScottishHistory #BookEvent
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Great event today - and of course #maryqueenofscots got a mention! @edbookfest
Anna Groundwater@AGroundw23 Jul 2025
It’s arrived! Connecting Scotland’s History! Updated renamed edition of my Scottish history timeline set alongside that of events in British and world histories. Happy to see it here and to be talking it at #edbookfest @edbookfest on 18 August 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎺 @LuathPress
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Another brilliant event, ‘The Captive Queen’ about #maryqueenofscots at the @edbookfest with illuminating questions from @AGroundw and insightful answers from Kate Anderson, Rosemary Goring and Jade Scott. Fab 🤩
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The rest of Anna’s talk was excellent, of course, and we wish her every success with her new publication: [annagroundwater.com/](annagroundwater.com/) 4/end
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and that encountering Anselm Adorne in HoN was a turning point for her. She talked about DD’s brilliance as a writer of historical fiction, urging the audience to read her – all under a huge screen projection of two book covers, “The Game of Kings” and “The Unicorn Hunt”. 3/
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Anna was talking about her book, “Scotland Connected”. Saying what had inspired her to write this book, she talked about how Dunnett had introduced her to the reality of renaissance Scotland as a country networked to the rest of Europe 2/
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Ronnie Barbour talks with Anna Groundwater about her book "Connecting Scotland's History: A Scottish History Timeline Linked into 2,000 Years of World History | Bylines Scotland Radio. Thanks for great questions Ronnie! @BylinesScotland bylines.scot/podcast/bylines…
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Check out The Maclean Brothers’s fundraising page, they’re doing great things! Go show your support! givestar.io/gs/record-row-to… ##MAKEITCOUNT ##givestar

The Maclean Brothers Pacific Row

Donate to The Maclean Brothers' Pacific Row fundraiser here... We're three brothers from Scotland and we're trying to raise £1,000,000 by rowing half way...

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Pretty thrilled to be doing this at #EdinburghBookFest celebrating new edition of 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 💃 📍EFI Venue T, EFI 📆 18 August 🎟 buff.ly/0KBUaja #EIBF #EdinburghWhatsOn #EdinburghBookFest #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival #EIBF25 #LuathPress
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Anna Groundwater retweeted
Luath Press@LuathPress25 Jun 2025
✨Edinburgh International Book Festival Event✨ 👤 @AGroundw 📚 Connecting Scotland's History 📍EFI Venue T, Edinburgh Futures Institute 📆 18 August ⏰ 11am 🎟 buff.ly/0KBUaja #EIBF #EdinburghWhatsOn #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival #EIBF25 @edbookfest
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See this Instagram post by @nationalmuseumsscotland instagram.com/reel/DKPO2b2Bu…

@nationalmuseumsscotland • Instagram reel

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