With quotations from the novels, maps, photographs and historical illustrations, our new guide help readers imagine life in Niccolò’s time and perhaps even locate the Ca’ Niccolò.
Out on 24 April 2026. A5, 92 pages, printed two-colour (black and orange). 15 maps, 58 photographs, 21 illustrations
WG 170 is en route to members. 52 pp, 8 colour. Discusses the attachment between Jerott and Lymond; language and cultural exchange in Niccolò; Scottish maps and charts; the Venice Guide; trading links in the north-west Highlands; Henri II’s Entry into Rouen; and destiny and choice in Dolly books.
@dunnettcentral.bsky.social A century or so pre-Niccolo but fascinating!
We are stronger, and better historians, together.
Historical societies abound in the UK, and we've listed 150 with BlueSky accounts in this updated Starter Pack. go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Other societies appear on a new listing of subject societies on the RHS website bit.ly/4ebwP9r #Skystorians
✍️Short story writers!
There's just one month left to enter the HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition!
We're looking for unpublished short stories set all or mainly in the past.
More info and entry form at historicalwriters.org/awards/the-d...
#HWADDSS26
Proofs have arrived!
I'm both absolutely thrilled and gripped with typo-phobia. In any case, the book is almost real!
#NUNTASTIC
Excited for this event in Rome, co-presenting with @hlamers.bsky.social 'Condensing Demosthenes: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Sententiae Collections–The Case of Joannes Loinus (1551)' Join us!
#classicalreception #skystorians #classics #earlymodern
www.hf.uio.no/dnir/english...
My copy of Whispering Gallery 170 has just arrived.
May meeting dates for Zoom groups (DDS members only; see p. 3 of WG 169.
US Eastern/Central-A: 16 May 13:00 EDT
US Mountain/Pacific: 17 May 13:00 PDT
Whifflers: 22 May 16:00 BST
Australia–NZ: 23 May 17:00 AEST
Lymond Chronicles Reading Group: 23 May 15:00 BST
US Eastern/Central-B: 23 May 14:00 EDT
The DDS is pleased to announce two additional Zoom groups coming in June:
Niccolò Rising Reading Group: 5 June 16:00 BST
Craft and criticism discussion group: 10 June 18:00 BST – this group will look closely at the Lymond books; first meeting topic ‘Worldbuilding and the historical novel’.
