Dr Patrick Watt

Love #materialculture? Ever wondered about the Highland Society of London? Or the origins of the Scottish military tradition? Look no further!! My article on that very subject is out now in Historical Research from @ihr_history academic.oup.com/histres/advanc…

@XiangFrancisWei Hi, there seems to be a John Campbell of Limefield who had a testament proven at Edinburgh Commissary Court in 1768. It has been digitized and can be downloaded (for a few) on ScotlandsPeople. Might have some clues?

#twitterhistorians could someone please help me identify this figure: Captain John Campbell of Lymefield [Limefield]? He sat repeatedly in the General Assembly as ruling elder for the Burgh of Inveraray 1730-1751. But I’ve not been able to find his military (or naval) commission.

@ProfTonyPollard @UofGlasgow @UofGWarstudies @UofGHistory And it should be Robieson not Robinson. Stupid autocorrect

@ProfTonyPollard @UofGlasgow @UofGWarstudies @UofGHistory Dunkeld, that should be

Returned to this by Francis J MacCuun (pub. 1914). Bought for a fiver & found it signed. Assist. lecturer in History @UofGlasgow, joined Camerons & killed at Loos Sept 1915. Strikingly, he notes that "Great War" then referred to war against Napoleon. @UofGWarstudies @UofGHistory

The History of Art Research Seminar of this semester is on Thursday 16 November at 5:15 pm (Hunter Lecture Theatre @eca_edinburgh @EdinburghUni Dr Sarah Laurenson, who will be speaking about Crafting colour worlds: the making of Scottish jewellery in the long nineteenth century.

@burnsjilly @HistEnvScot Congratulations!!! What a fantastic job!!

I’m pleased to share that I’ve started a new position this week as National Strategy Programme Manager at @HistEnvScot and I get the privilege to manage the roll out of this beauty of a National Strategy for Scotland’s Historic Environment ❤️ historicenvironment.scot/our-past-our-f…

@RMB_History There were two recorded with the 92nd Highlanders too, in 1815

So the 1800 Lochaber Fencibles recorded both a Captain and a Lieutenant Ronald McDonald...

@Julieh80 Same here!

Octonauts has a lot of (positive) things to answer for in our house

Currently watching Nightflyers on Netflix, which has led me down a rabbit hole of googling genetically engineered humans who can survive high levels of radiation. It seems it is something that is being investigated... My biology loving son will love that tardigrades are involved

@mesutuyar10 It is real and in the collections of the National War Museum in Edinburgh. It was awarded for services in Egypt in 1801

@emirpatrickwatt If the Order of Crescent is genuine it will get top money in Turkey.

Since the earlier #Waterloo tweets were so successful let’s see what the 92nd Highlanders were up to on the day itself. They retired from Quatre Bras on 17 June, probably with no more than 300 men and 12 officers. Few were present when they buried Fassfern. Here he is + medals

Thomas Harper spent the night of 18 June among the dead and wounded on the old French front line. Robertson remembered “No one could speak so awestruck were we with the horrid spectacle”. From there, the 92nd began their advance to Paris, and the long journey home

Sergeant David Robertson, in temporary command of No2 and No3 companies said “all was now destruction and confusion”. A French unit tried to stand and fight but “we rushed upon it like a legion of demons”. French resistance soon ended and the Allies were victorious