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Interesting piece, published by @glasgowbell.bsky.social, on "Glasgow's Secret Geometry" and Harry Bell's leyline theory. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-sacr...

Look I know there's a lot of *waves hand* going on right now, but it's come to my attention that William "Worst Poet Ever" McGonagall composed in 1899 an elegy to "The Ancient Town of Leith" in his own, inimitable style. So if you care to gather round, I shall now retell it for the whole class 🧵🗣️🪑

We are enjoying the #WinterOlympics #curling but can't help feeling the players could work on their attire after seeing this painting by John Levack It shows a curling match near #Airdrie in 1857. Spot the coal mines that partly funded the players' wealth www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...

A photograph courtesy of of Leeds Museums and Galleries of the city's Steel Works in the Hunslet area dating to March 1921 when a strike was taking place. The site opened in 1889 and was at one time Britain's largest producer of steel tram tracks. 1/3

Explore the career of 19th-century engineer George Harrap with @scientistsoph.bsky.social. Learn how to reconstruct a Victorian engineer’s life using professional registers, patents & industrial records. 📅 12 Feb 2026 | 13:30–14:30 | Online via Zoom Book your place: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...

North Lanarkshire Council Museums are looking for a full-time Site Supervisor The post is based at Summerlee Museum in Coatbridge, closing date is 17 February

New on our museum collections website is a 1st hand account of the operation to rescue 135 miners trapped underground following the 1950 Knockshinnoch Colliery Disaster It was written by James Lillie of the Coatbridge Mines Rescue Brigade www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/rescue...

4 weeks today we will be celebrating #InternationalWomen’sDay with our 2026 online Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March. Join 72 speakers over 24 hours travelling across the world beginning with photography of Antarctica. Registration is open and free. womenofphoto.com

A few days ago in the Ramshorn Kirkyard, the sun was picking out an unexpected piece of Glasgow industrial history at the base of a mortsafe.

We are recruiting for a Site Supervisor for North Lanarkshire Council Museums. Closing date: 17 February 2026 myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/nor...

If you like old trams and trains - and seriously, who doesn’t - then you need to have a wander through Summerlee. #museums #museumfromhome #Scotland mainlymuseums.com/post/916/sum...

Still time to register for our next online talk ... 'Exchanging Stereoscopic Views' on Tuesday 10th February 2026 (1900 GMT) with Rebecca Sharpe (Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy) and Julie Gibb (National Museums of Scotland). Register via the link ... events.rps.org/en/historica...

Some good heritage news - the restoration of Maritime Hull's Scotch Derrick crane. There are many things to go and see in Hull - a rather underrated city well worth a visit. @c20society.bsky.social @simonhickman.bsky.social youtu.be/qQbm7qLyRKY?...

Exciting job opening @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Library and Archives Manager. Details here careers.nms.ac.uk/job/827960 #museumjobs #libraryjobs 📜

Is there a physical reason the British Museum can’t build an underground entrance in the forecourt like the Louvre, Mauritshuis, National Galleries of Scotland, etc? apple.news/AzZCuRRWyQP-...

#History My book is now out. All about the women merchant navy seafarers who died due to enemy action in the two world wars. www.lulu.com/shop/nina-ba... If any museums or other shops are interested in selling this, DM me for wholesale price.

ICYMI: are we going far enough on the Potteries heritage emergency? open.substack.com/pub/thefootb...

Utterly delighted to share our new look Shipbuilding Archive pages - the last of our archives to get the 2026 treatment 🥳 Interactive and intuitive with the full database. I'm so bloody proud of it, and the stepping stone to more features in the future. Link below.

A zine documenting the National Park Service’s “Life Under Slavery at George Washington House” exhibit—removed by the government January 22, 2026 in an act of censorship (zinebakery.com/bakeshop/cen...)

Absolutely loved the Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain. It has a tighter focus than the Edinburgh show 25 years ago & emphasises her collaboration with Man Ray rather than a muse. Here is Miller’s war correspondent’s uniform & Rolleiflex (a c1937 Automat 1) #Photography

It’s a new #UrbanPrehistory blog post for Sunday evening. ‘For the delectation of posterity’ explores some materials from my personal Ludovic Mann collection pertaining to the Druid Temple, Clydebank. theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/f...

The new V&A East (which opens later this year) has more than a touch of Libeskind’s Spiral about it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...

Love to see the new illuminated 'Corporation Transport' lettering on 1930s Glasgow tramcar 1245 which is being restored by our amazing volunteers at Summerlee Museum 1245 was the last Glasgow tram to run before the power was turned off. See the Glasgow's Last Tram Group website glasgowslasttram.net

🛠️ Most people today encounter Dunston Staiths as a quiet heritage site. In the 1970s, it was a dangerous place of work. A new film by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Peter Roberts brings that history back into view → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/coal-staiths-of-the-river-tyne Commissioned by Tyne Derwent Way

Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

WE ARE RECRUITING: fancy joining the #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum team p/t (60 days) for 6 months across the summer supporting delivery of a series of intergenerational events suit a student/recent graduate. For info and application nip to www.mining-landscapes.org/news/fancy-j... #MiningHeritage

Great news about the Keelmen’s Hospital in Newcastle. It’s been empty for too long

Our friends @earlyengines.bsky.social are holding the 4th International Early Engines Conference in Bristol from 22 to 24 March See their website for the latest news www.earlyengines.org

A new story on our website explores the legacy of the Aitchison's of Rochsolloch and their links to slavery on the island of Grenada. The Aitchison's accrued this tainted wealth and reinvested it at home, leaving behind a troubling legacy which we can still see and feel today. tinyurl.com/vjdu9t3r

I don’t want to worry anyone but Digging for Britain has just said that the largest UK archaeological dig is currently taking place a stone’s throw from where MR James set A Warning to the Curious.

It’s #HeritageTreasures day our Catherine’s choice is 10 mins from campus the #BridgeofAllan Well House and 120’ stone lined shaft that features on our curated tour ‘Airthrey Copper Mine Surface Walk’ www.mining-landscapes.org/route/40 @heritagefunduk.bsky.social #MiningHistory

Something I didn’t expect to find in @perthmuseum.bsky.social today: Christopher Lee’s prop sarcophagus from the 1959 Hammer film The Mummy @hookland.bsky.social @generalwitch.bsky.social @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk

It’s Heritage Treasures Day. My #HeritageTreasure is CR Stanley’s spectacular 1850s painting of Gartsherrie Iron Works in Coatbridge It’s part of the @mininglandscapes.bsky.social Summerlee West Circular tour www.mining-landscapes.org/route/117 @heritagefunduk.bsky.social @nlheritage.bsky.social

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This #MapMonday we're taking you back in time ⌛ We've just added over 9,000 out of copyright Ordnance Survey maps published in 1975 to our Map Images website. What did your neighbourhood look like fifty years ago? 🗺️ 🔗: maps.nls.uk/additions/#191 #MoreMaps

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Details of the first stage of plans to re-open a historic railway tunnel to pedestrians and cyclists have been revealed

A new #UrbanPrehistory blog post, Close to home, considering the impact of development-led archaeology on the story of the Lanarkshire town I grew up in, Larkhall. 'This deep time dive took on something of an investigation into my own prehistory' theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/c...

Robert Smillie Memorial Park gate, Larkhall, named for an activist miner & trade unionist from the town. Framing the view of the location of a Neolithic pit cluster found in advance of development a decade or so ago. #UrbanPrehistory

My top five #filmphotography cameras of 2025: 1. Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 531 2. Rolleiflex 2.8D 3. Olympus OM2n 4. Voigtländer Vitessa L 5. Pentax MX

May's walk is on Wearside! If you want a fully rounded gateway into the history of Wearside, consider our trek from Fulwell to the city centre. Coal, shipbuilding, limekilns, shipping churches, football and burial grounds cover every inch of this route. Tickets soon!

Interesting discussion over on Threads on why young people are turning to digital cameras over their phones www.threads.com/@kittenbreat... Lots of sneery replies as you’d expect but also a big variety of responses. Is ‘AI’ driving this trend, if it is a trend? #photography

Had an adventure finding the Machar Stones near Fintry today. Was glad of @megalithic.bsky.social for directions as they’re off the beaten path in a forestry plantation. It’s very boggy! Northern Antiquarian has a good write-up on the stones megalithix.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/m...

Working together on restoration projects creates what they call “camaraderie”, a form of friendship that is grounded in doing things together, rather than in the reflection on interior feelings that has become an increasing expectation of modern intimacy. theconversation.com/heritage-rai...

Behold the First Underwater Portrait in the History of Photography (Circa 1899)

@mininglandscapes.bsky.social check out this Scottish brick goodness on Anglesey

Glasgow history nerds! The Trades House Library have scanned the previously missing volumes of the Extracts from the Burgh Records, covering 1759-1809. Now available at www.tradeshouselibrary.org/glasgow.html and as far as I know nowhere else online.

One of the most iconic early discoveries of human origins is the skull from Kabwe, now thought to be around 300,000 years old. The human story behind the site, with its legacy of industrial lead contamination, is not often told with the paleoanthropological one. www.johnhawks.net/p/kabwe-famo...

The courage of the Black students who led school integration in America remains unfathomable to me. What honor Jo Ann Allen Boyce brought upon us, and what a remarkable life she led. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...