On 14 March Jackson Armstrong gave a paper entitled “All thingis covntit”: Government and Accounting in Fifteenth-Century Burghs.

This was for a joint meeting of the Scottish History Seminar and Medieval History Research Seminar at the University of Edinburgh, coordinated by Dr Alasdair Raffe and Dr Emily Ward.

The presentation explored different types of accounts created in medieval burghs, and what those involved in governing towns thought they were doing when they drew them up and subjected them to audit. The paper represents work underway arising from the FLAG project, and there was a rich discussion afterwards about the nature of account-keeping in medieval and early modern Scotland. It was a valuable opportunity to examine these topics, and also for Jackson to catch up with colleagues and some former students!