Mapping the Scottish Reformation

Very much looking forward to the Durkan Lecture tomorrow evening, delivered by (friend the project!) Dr John McCallum. The lecture is entitled 'Emotion in Religious Controversy in Jacobean Scotland'. Book your place here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/durkan-lectu…

Find out more about our early experiences of using @WikibaseCloud on our project blog: mappingthescottishreformation.org/uncategorized/…

Come & look at our laboratory! We're using @WikibaseCloud to test some new approaches to managing our data. Stay tuned as we add more of our data to this new tool. msrtest.wikibase.cloud

Refresh yourselves on how to use our demo website with none other than Dr Jamie Reid-Baxter! youtu.be/2x7TPBWXDPc?si…

@Wolf_Q4 We're still a work in progress, for sure! We're looking to cover all of Scotland in the coming years. In the meantime, if you could DM us with the names you're looking for, we'd be happy to try to help.

@Wolf_Q4 Hi Lorraine, not a silly question at all! Those boxes are there because several parishes in Lothian & Tweeddale were once a part of those other presbyteries. They were moved when new presbyteries were erected.

Sorry if this is a silly question @MappingScotsRef but when I link to your website, Ayr, Glasgow, Lanark, Irvine &Hamilton are automatically unchecked. I ticked them and did my search but no results for the names I'm looking for. Is the database still a work in progress? TIA 😊

@restalrig And, of course, the eventful ending to the career of John Book (or Boig) in the 1640s & the petitioning of Marion Inglis in the 1650s & '60s!

Kirkliston, scene of much shaking of hands and friendly embracings in July 1543, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Bo…

Visualisations produced with csvplot.com

These insights stem from our dataset of over 1,300 ministers & over 2,000 clerical appointments. Our data collection for areas outside of the Central Belt is at the v early stages so stay tuned as we add more precise detail.

803 clerics with educational data & counting! Over double the size of our previous dataset! Some initial observations...🧵

Always check your data entry: out of over 2,000 entries, there's always one outlier! Spare a thought for William Home, a seventeenth-century minister based in the Scottish Borders. Somehow, we doubt his time at Ayton ended in 664AD. *ahem*

Very complex clerical migration patterns!

We can't wait to share our expanded dataset with you. Over 2,000 clerical appointments!

For those of you who couldn't attend our presentation at @NatRecordsScot, why not watch it on YouTube? Find out more on how technology can help us understand a critical period of Scotland's past. youtu.be/kKkFvyc0qFQ