What a working member of the Royal family looks like.

Did you know that babies will respond to songs and rhymes even before birth? And that they promote brain development, language acquisition and bonding? Join us on 4 Nov to explore the importance of singing and sharing books with little ones. shop.scottishbooktrust.com/products/onl...

Thrilled to say I'm a judge for the first ever Inspiring History Teaching Awards, in association with Historic Royal Palaces. Do you know a great history teacher in the UK who deserves to go down in history? Nominate them here bit.ly/42yhGZP

The same part of St Andrews appears in Geddy's map of 1580 (courtesy of @natlibscot.bsky.social ) The cathedral and St Rule's tower sits above the busy harbour. #maps #LocalHistory maps.nls.uk/view/1427

#Aberfan museum.wales/news/1298/Ab...

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)

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Apparently university finances have already been stabilised. So speedily some of us must have missed it. 2/x

Seems like an opportune moment to re-up our paper about AWS seeking infrastructural dominance in education through a range of operations that include platforming the edtech industry on its cloud services codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/h...

Ah! Good old bbc Researchers believe that the honking noise is used as a means to keep track of the skein, and co-ordinate their V-shaped formation whilst flying.

Here we go…. You MUST come & see me on tour!! This is an important book. It’s tackling something that matters, not just in terms of our relationship with the past, but also where we are in the present. On your marks. Get set. Go! linktr.ee/JaninaRamirez

“Make some new content” they said. “You’ve been off socials on this secret project. You need to reconnect,” they said. “But how?” said I. I’m old & rubbish with technology. Then it hit me. I have invested 16 years in bringing up teenagers who have ALL the skills. They made this…

Sorry to have to share this but this evidence that the leader of the free world has gone insane is apparently not newsworthy to the BBC, the Times etc

A terrific thread by CNN's media analyst - a gallery of newspaper front pages reporting #news 📰🗞️ #NoKings

#museums 🗃️📚 #architecture

University of East Anglia launches contest to rethink Lasdun’s ziggurats

Female architects still face barriers, including “long hours being glorified, an imbalance of power between employers and employees, lack of clear policies and proactive action, and stark displays of sexism within practices”. #RIBA #architecture #women www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The Liberal Club at 2 Nelson Mandela Place (formerly St George's Place), pictured just after it was built in 1910. Designed by A.N. Paterson, it was built on the site of the Bedford Hotel and from the 1930s was home to the Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. 📷 HES

Last night’s amazing northern lights in Assynt, Scotland.

@herdyshepherd.bsky.social on the Lake poets. "I am a product of this Romantic culture. Not just as a scribbler of words, but biologically. When my mum left home as a teenager, she came to work for the Outward Bound Trust in the Lakes, and then met my dad." observer.co.uk/style/featur...

"The title track of People Watching is a searing opener about the parlous state of palliative care homes (“The place was falling to bits, understaffed and overruled by callous hands”). It was written for Annie Orwin..." #Newcastle observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Every day he commits a new outrage that would have the branch manager of a retail chain sacked on the spot and much of the media shrugs and moves on…

Printmaking has not only been integral to the creativity of women in art but to the course of art itself, influencing and inspiring artists over the ages, including the fantastic talent of Louise Bourgeois - Spirals, 2005 woodcuts #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

David Lloyd George’s coalition government was brought down after Tory MPs voted to withdraw on this day 1922. (Painting of his birthplace in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, by L.S. Lowry 1958).

"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a

Epic. Well done Jess and Miriam! Just a quick row across the Pacific from Brazil to Australia. Unsupported. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Councillors will debate a petition calling for all food at Edinburgh Council events to be fully plant-based.

19th October 2025 07.42

Heron is patient.

Across Loch Tay

The best academic retorts to AI I know include an excellent law piece led by @michae.lv share.google/gsMCZ6gD7WYq... And this @aaup.org working group on AI and academic work www.aaup.org/reports-publ... This, and not Grammarly marketing, is what education needs more of right now.

Let's go back to getting our news in the traditional way: by waiting until a privateer anchors at Port Glasgow with a bunch of intercepted letters and a renegade priest. [Aberdeen Press & Journal, 25 Sep 1780]

The History Podcast from Radio 4 uncovers a family’s secret past and stolen legacy #FamilyHistory www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Lindisfarne, Holy Island, Northumberland, photo by Sarah Howard, landscape photographer.

Honk honk! A wee jaunt east today, and looked up to see a skein of geese flying in formation, just outside of Linlithgow. #Scotland

Which reminds me of the #Edinburgh St. Trinnean’s - a progressive, liberal school founded by headmistress Catherine Fraser Lee in 1922. @threadinburgh.scot reveals all. threadinburgh.scot/2022/09/27/t...

McVitie's Club biscuits and Penguin bars are now merely 'chocolate flavoured'. High cocoa prices due to climate change. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

These magnificent mushrooms were spotted on our Bawsinch and Duddingston Loch reserve in Edinburgh. 🍄 📸 Huge thanks to @davidst999.bsky.social for sending these brilliant photos in. 1&2 - Bleeding fairy caps 3 - Glistening ink caps

The Olympia in Bridgeton, Glasgow. Designed by George Arthur and Son and first opened in 1911, this building has gone through a fairly typical cycle for a Glasgow entertainment venue. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #bridgeton #architecturephotography

#31DaysofGraves #Day18 #Mistake Visiting the graves of relatives in Kinclaven Parish churchyard, Perthshire, I noticed someone else had not been quite so fortunate with their stonemason's spelling - or maybe they just went with what the family provided.

18th October 2025 07.42

So glad I switched from a gas cooker and wood burning stove over to electric (induction and an air-to-air heat pump) several years back. And not just for climate reasons. share.google/e6mbJFgsx5Yv...

Shipping emissions levy abandoned as countries bow to US pressure. Trump threatened countries, and individual officials, with tariffs, penalties, visa revocations if they supported the pricing mechanism to curb emissions Fossil fuels lobby wins again. Presidents can be replaced, planet earth can't

It's Friday afternoon and I have a little time between meetings, so let's do a little mini-thread on early medieval seals in the Firth of Forth and why I think it's useful to us to study them. Join me as I bounce through a tiny bit of my dissertation! (1/11)

Strike goes on: National Coal Mining Museum workers reject latest pay offer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As nights draw in and temperatures drop it's time to light the fire! 'The History of A Scuttle of Coals in Rhymes and Pictures' tells us about the journey of this once common fuel from ground to fireplace. Read on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll... Ref. RB821.8-SIX

Oh… ‘build lower numbers of affordable homes and claim higher subsidies to build them’. Shareholders will love it!

I'm very pleased to have received my copy of Ned Newitt's thoroughly researched and finely illustrated history of social housing in Leicester. I recommend it not just to locals but to anyone interested in our housing history. waterstones.com/book/housing...

Looking at Calton Hill from Princes Street, Edinburgh.

@ianmurraymp.bsky.social I hope you are paying attention. ⬇️