History Scotland magazine, Strange Sickness on Mac, and more

A few quick highlights to draw attention to this summer from the burgh records project!

In June Strange Sickness was released for MacOS, to join the version already available on PC. Find out more at strangesickness.com

Jackson Armstrong wrote a short piece on the voices of medieval people in History Scotland’s special issue on the middle ages (Sep/Oct 2022 issue). This article explores how the written words and spoken words can be recovered from the Aberdeen council registers. The special issue also features articles on towns, women, plague, and more, by great contributors.

On 3 August City Archivist Phil Astley gave a Lunchtime talk at the Maritime Museum on Aberdeen’s Medieval Archives.

More activities, news and posts are to follow in the coming months. Look out for Songs from Medieval Aberdeen at the Lunchbreak Concert on 10 September!