As a photographer and writer/researcher of #photography, I love that this quest began with a childhood photograph. I look so forward to reading @peteralanross.bsky.social's book, Upon A White Horse. #Books

I very much enjoyed reading and reflecting on this recent free-to-read post from @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social on Upon a White Horse by @peteralanross.bsky.social For archaeologists context is everything and the book and the review provide many thought-provoking prompts. Looking forward to my copy.

I'll be at the National Museum of Scotland on Sunday, talking about Upon A White Horse. It will be my only Edinburgh date this year, I think, so if you'd like to buy a signed and dedicated book for yourself or perhaps as a Xmas gift for someone, please do come along. www.nms.ac.uk/events/in-co...

This looks really interesting... a connection to the spirits of the land in ways that will make sense in the 21st century. and then we can ask for guidance of how to move forward into a generative, heart-connected future. so much better than anything current systems offer.

I can’t overstate how important it was – and remains – that such a brilliant and important writer paid attention to something of mine and expressed a liking for it. How fitting that there is now a prize for emerging writers in Hilary Mantel's name.

Quite a shock when you come across this 10ft high guy lurking in the shadows at St Sampson #SouthHill #Cornwall #churches

"Upon A White Horse is a moving, compelling, heart-achingly beautiful book." I'm grateful to Dr Francis Young for that kind remark, of course, but even more so for his deep and insightful engagement with the themes and ideas of my book.

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

Anne Lister died on this day, 22nd September, in 1840. Today, 185 years later, we are carrying out repairs on the church where her partner, Ann Walker, is buried. 1/11 📷 The cupola of Old St Matthew's, Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire (before repairs)

Starmer finally said it: ‘We recognise Palestine.’ But Gaza desperately needs action – where is that? | Nesrine Malik

I've spent much of today reading Peter Ross's brilliant new book Upon a White Horse which is about ancient landscapes and monuments. It is, as always, full of poetry, not only in the sense of lyrical language, of which there is plenty, but in the way he conjures up images from tiny/

"The only thing that could've increased the humiliation would have been the holding up of a dog biscuit tho' a treat for rolling over was proffered in the form of a tech deal, which Starmer wolfed down with all the grateful tail-wagging the president demands." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column.

#standingstonesunday The Pipers and Hurlers in the mist. St. Cleer this time apparently turned the hurlers to stone for playing hurling on the sabbath as well as the pipers who played too much music. and of course Trethevy Quoit

Today's the feast of St Matthew, disciple and evangelist, author of the first gospel, sometimes described as the Jewish gospel for its presentation of Christ as the fulfillment of the Judaic tradition. On the screen at Cawston, Norfolk, studious with his book and spectacles. 1/3

The Roos Carr figures are dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. They were inadvertently unearthed by laborers during ditch maintenance at Roos Carr in 1836. Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Photos of a HUGE early medieval posthole, complete with stone packing and an IMMENSE piece of quartz, are emerging from the dig in Govan Old's 1,500-year-old churchyard. More when we get it... 📷 Bex - Grave Sight Photography

JD Twitch, esteemed Scottish DJ in duo Optimo, dies aged 57 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

“We didn’t take the bait” - a month after Elon Musk amplified anti-immigration misinformation about Lochee, I returned to Dundee to find out how locals have responded www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What a delight to get my hands on a copy of Upon A White Horse by @peteralanross.bsky.social, published last week. It is a very fine book indeed. Get it here: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHo... or at one of Peter's upcoming events!

Fortyish years since I last saw Half Man Half Biscuit at Rooftops in Glasgow, they were still epic but they had a few more songs in their repertoire.

I went to see Black Country, New Road, supported by The New Eves, and wrote about both bands for The Times. www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

Many thanks to David Robinson and @booksfromscotland.bsky.social for this review of Upon A White Horse. booksfromscotland.com/2025/09/davi...

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

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I’ve really enjoyed the audiobook of @peteralanross.bsky.social new book on my commute this week. Gentle warmth combined with a deep sense of connection to times long past. Highly recommend 👍

I'll be speaking about Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain & Ireland @stoneclub.bsky.social in London on Oct 20. I'm really looking forward to this, especially as Stone Club founders Lally MacBeth & Matthew Shaw appear in the book. Please come if you can. stoneclub.rocks/events/stone...

Really chuffed to be shortlisted for the Wigtown Book Festival's Anne Brown prize again. I love non-fiction essays, reading them & writing them, & the award provides a rare opportunity to have a go. Good luck to everyone.

It feels like the sky is falling in, but on Tuesday I went to see @jamesyorkston.bsky.social & Nina Persson sing in Edinburgh & last night I was in Dollar to hear @peteralanross.bsky.social talk eloquently about his new book Upon a White Horse & it reminded me that good things are happening too

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

My participation in the 2nd half of this programme from BBCRadioScot stopped me from hearing the interview with the great @peteralanross.bsky.social. Nor have I got to the content of his new book, Upon a White Horse. But I love how he brings the past into the present www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

No one needs a 4000-word essay on why Neko Case’s album The Worse Things Get, The More I Fight, The More I Fight, The More I Love You (2013) is a passionate declaration of the rights of the artist to do what the fuck they want, which is EXACTLY why I’ve written one. 9am. @backlisted.bsky.social

A much-needed slow day of soft sunshine, excellent bird-spotting (did somebody say grey phalarope?!), and the singular joy of a new @peteralanross.bsky.social to read. Early-autumn at its finest.

New and forthcoming books on travel and place: @peteralanross.bsky.social journeys through Ancient Britain & Ireland; Miles Morland goes round the world -- twice -- on a motorcycle; and @bfox.bsky.social spends the Covid pandemic with curanderos in Peru. deskboundtraveller.com/new-books-on...

I love @peteralanross.bsky.social's description of Basil Brown as ‘A person in whom passion manifested as caution, and love as patience.’

Why is is so hard for people to say these words?: Lough Neagh, the UK's biggest lake, is being killed by *livestock farms*.

"Welcome to Barga, the most Scottish town in Italy." Excellent piece, by @danigaravelli.bsky.social, on a joyful cultural exchange.

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If anyone in Glasgow or Edinburgh would like a signed copy of Upon A White Horse, there are copies in Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street, Argyle Street, Princes Street and at the Braehead shopping centre. Blackwell’s on South Bridge and Topping on Blenheim Place also have a few.

The stunning Georgian interior of St Deiniol’s, Worthenbury has a complete set of original 18th-century box pews, an elegant triple-decker pulpit, and a grand west gallery. 1/7

I am amazed and delighted to announce that my book 'The Road to Mons Graupius' has been longlisted for the Saltires, Scotland's National Book Awards! www.thesaltires.org.uk #RomanSiteSaturday

Thank you to everyone for their good wishes on the publication of Upon A White Horse. It was heartening to hear from so many of you. I hope that you will enjoy the book.

The real achievement of Alien: Earth is to finally make Dan O’Bannon’s Dark Star beach ball alien properly scary, by making it much smaller and live in your face.

For #FindsFriday I offer this gorgeous 15,000 year old engraving of a reindeer calf, nervously standing next to its mum. Found in the Madeleine rock shelter in the Dordogne, France. Part of the excellent Ice Age Art exhibition at the Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley, Bradford. 🏺

Evening light, Liverpool Cathedral.

Many thanks to the good people @stoneclub.bsky.social for making Upon A White Horse their book of the month. I’m honoured to have been asked to take part in their London event in October. Details of that soon!

One of my oldest pals, the Argyle Street Ash is up for Tree of the Year. You can vote here: woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...

Nearly every year, this is the record I listen to the most times. I start when the weather turns in the fall and have it on repeat until spring.

The longlists for the Saltires – Scotland’s national book awards for non-fiction, fiction, poetry, & research – have been announced. www.thesaltires.org.uk

Why is it always a children's book? When do we get a celebrity who decides to edit a Festschrift or prepare an annotated edition of a primary source text?