Hen Galan • Old New Year 🎉 Although we celebrate the New Year on the 1st of January, there is a part of Wales that celebrates it on the 13th of January ✨️ www.peoplescollection.wales/content/old-... #Wales #History

Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.

#OtD 12 Jan 1971 the revolutionary urban guerrilla group, the Angry Brigade, bombed the home of Tory Secretary of State for Employment, Robert Carr. Learn more about the group in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e83-...

BBC 2 Scotland aired ‘My Kind of Town’ in Stromness again today, with Ian Hamilton and his guide dog Major. Our Curator introduced Ian to our “treasure trove of objects from across the centuries” and our most friend-shaped object, the Skara Brae Buddo. Rewatch it here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

My mum got me this art print card for my birthday and I feel very seen. 🛌 😴 Sydney William Carline (1888-1929) - The Eiderdown - 1929.40 - Manchester Art Gallery.

Lovely archaeology & heritage opportunities on South Ronaldsay. Two seasonal rangers and a site manager. 🏺

Later, Edna was forced to sell her Brussels sprout house.

Snowy Stromness, including a cheeky robin eyeing up the chickens’ dinner! ❄️ 🐓

Tracking down Doctor Who, kicking in the doors of the Tardis & demanding to be chauffeured back through time to the 8th Great Puffin Exhibition at once

Happy new year!

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Sunset sea swimming for Boxing Day 🌊

As I’m still in bed, this does not bode well for me 😬

‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research

Merry Christmas 🎄 🌟

Christmas morning 🎄

This is thought to be the earliest photograph of a snowman in the world ⛄ ❄ It was taken at Penllergare by Mary Dillwyn in c.1853 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mary is thought to be one of the earliest female photographers in the world 📷 museum.wales/articles/972... #Wales #History

"Happy #NationalRobinDay" Robin (Erithacus rubecula) at Grimbister, #Orkney. #OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #UKBirds #UKBirding #Birds #Wildlife #UKWildlife #Nature #Photography #birdsoftheworld #ornithology #Robin #Redbreast 🪶

There is no reason why I should be quite THIS excited about our Christmassified Jingle. And yet I am. (Sound on, obviously.) A x

Es ist perfekt.

Watching 1883 and up pops a Hudson’s Bay Company point blanket on the screen to comfort Elsa when she most needs it! 📺

Far right protesters in Aberdeen today had their hateful, megaphoned rants drowned out by counter protestors blasting Christmas songs on loudspeakers 🎄 😂 it’s what Jesus would’ve wanted.

Apparently this stuff was ‘a mix of alcohol, opiates, and herbs…’ I’ll take 3 bottles, please. museumofhealthcare.blog/the-story-of...

the brexit referendum remains one of the craziest fucking things a country has ever done

Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

This gorgeous cheery chubby brightened up my working day yesterday 🦭

Because too many people let him get away with using the Cass Review to take away puberty blockers.

Nerd humor coming your way 😂

Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

Rowan came home with a new friend today 🦖

This painting by Charles Bell is an amalgam of 3 soldiers he had treated with gunshot fractures of the skull which led to them developing opisthotonos. You can read more about the history of the painting in this blog from our Humans Remains Conservator: bit.ly/3vDWO5D

Book fairy has paid us a visit…

Selena S. Kuzman’s film ‘As Old as the Hills’, described as ‘a groundbreaking visualisation of the vastness of geological time’ set in Orkney and Caithness, is now available to view in full online on the oisf.org YouTube channel: youtu.be/CG--FFMO1UE 🍿

We want your views, memories, stories and photos! Stromness Museum are considering taking on the Flaws Pier and Yole Building next door to keep it in community ownership, but would love to hear your thoughts first. Please reply or email [email protected]

Today I learned that David not only had the power of God on his side when he set off to face Goliath, but also the strength of ten cheeses. 🧀

“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.” It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

An interesting presentation...

Loved learning about the Museum of Toronto's The T.O. You Don’t Know project to help people 'Discover the Weird and Wonderful Layers of the City': museumoftoronto.com/projects/the... Inc. rioting clowns... 🤡 youtu.be/xWO--OfP9-8?... AMA Digital Marketing Day / @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk

Blast from the past! Top tip from the first session: check out Chris Unity’s work at @onefurther.bsky.social ⌛️

THE WORLD'S LARGEST CHEESE DIRECTORY

Almost prostrate and sobbing with relief at the appearance of Buddo today. Proper Railway Children “Buddo, my Buddo” levels of grateful to see them

Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them. What the fuck are we?

Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain

Of course he’s delighted , who wouldn’t be?! #tombones 🦣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very jealous of the dog this morning. 💤

Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.

If you’re investing in an expensive phone sock… 🧦 📱

Steps

Brilliant 👏

🚩 Pub landlord who goes straight for the whiskey upon hearing bad news 🥃 🚩 Brooding poet with dark, despairing, Freudian depths ✍️ 🚩 Matricide suspect 💀 DI Ruth Calder: 😍😍😍 #shetland