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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle
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#Glasgow
Don't forget your tickets for Christopher Caldwell and Elaine Gallagher on Thursday! An Evening of Scottish Speculative Fiction also features Lorraine Wilson and Angie Spoto. Link below.
@theelaineg.bsky.social
@seraph76.bsky.social
@rainewilson.bsky.social
@waterstonesargyle.bsky.social
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Gail Higginbottom
about 17 hours ago
I am thrilled to announce this upcoming volume from The European Megalithic Studies Group. Megalithic Societies: Old Questions, New Narratives Edited by Gail M. Higginbottom, Jadranka Verdonkschot, Chris Scarre, A. César González-García, Felipe Criado-Boado I shall announce when it is published!
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Calton Hill Conservation Trust
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Thank you, Liam Eunsom of MIDLOTHIAN VIEW for covering the drone survey at the beginning of the CALTON HILL ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT. The Trust are working with HEADLAND ARCHAEOLOGY who are using photogrammetry to map the hill. 1/
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Search for hidden archaeological history on Calton Hill begins - Midlothian View
A new project has begun in Edinburgh between the Calton Hill Conservation Trust and Headland Archaeology. Reporter Liam Eunson joined the first stage of the project, creating a video on the photogramm...
https://www.midlothianview.com/news/search-for-hidden-archaeological-history-on-calton-hill-begins
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There is something particularly special about stones placed on top of monuments, like at Tumulus de Kercado. I also love the contrast with the funnel shaped water tower which overlooks the monument.
#StandingStoneSunday
#Archaeology
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Dr Icy Sedgwick
3 days ago
I'm collecting children's folklore for a forthcoming podcast theme - what do you remember believing as a kid, or what games did you play? And what do YOUR kids do for rites, games, and stories they pass on? Let me know!
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Caught by the River
4 days ago
Love Caught by the River? Wish you could undertake a paid membership to read our delicious bonus content, but just can’t afford it at the moment? We’re making a year’s worth of paywall access available to 15 people free of charge. More info:
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/01/stea...
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Claire Boardman
4 days ago
Next online seminar from
@livingmaps.bsky.social
"The Waterways Collective is a Scotland-based art-science collaboration, currently following Atlantic salmon and their migrations into local landscapes, distant seascapes, multi-species histories, and possible futures."
tinyurl.com/mry8zw7u
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The Waterways Collective: Multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon
Join us to explore multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon migration and ideas of interconnectedness
https://tinyurl.com/mry8zw7u
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Stuart Jeffrey
4 days ago
Brand new from
@sit-gsa.bsky.social
, a longer format in-depth video exploring our MSc in Heritage Visualisation. It covers a lot of ground, research, experience and destinations. Applications are open for a Sept 26 start.
#digitalheritage
#heritage
#visualisation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaZ...
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In Depth: MSc Heritage Visualisation
YouTube video by GSA School of Innovation and Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaZUQV35P8
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Claire Boardman
5 days ago
Project update
@archscot.bsky.social
: "A journey through the Real Wild West. Our Project Assistant Dr Eleanor Harrison continues her exploration of Audrey Henshall’s work in the latest blog: Return to the Real Wild West and Goodbye to Ardnamurchan.”
www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/return-to-th...
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Historic Environment Forum (HEF)
5 days ago
Happy 50th Anniversary year to AHF 🎉 2026 marks a major milestone for HEF member the AHF, celebrating half a century of championing community‑led regeneration. As part of the celebrations, a touring exhibition will showcase five decades of impact across the UK - which will you visit? 👇
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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures
5 days ago
Join us for our first podcast! We talk with the amazing Alexandra Cotofana about landscape sentience in the Romanian Carpathians and the concept of xenophobic mountains.
shorturl.at/DfOrj
@graemewarren.bsky.social
@mcornelissen.bsky.social
@subfossilguy.bsky.social
@farsouthhistory.bsky.social
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Joana Valdez-Tullett
6 days ago
When I finished my undergrad I did an internship in archaeology but based at a contemporary art museum in the town of Amarante, the birth place of the amazing Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. I spent a bit of time looking at his work. He accomplished so much and was only 30 when he died of influenza.
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Dr Coralie Mills
8 days ago
A massive multi-stem oak which
#Dendrochronology
revealed has an early 19th C stem origin date. It looks much older. This is in the wood pasture ‘Dairy Wood’ at Borders Forest Trust’s Corehead estate near Moffat.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#treeclub
#trees
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Dr Aisling Tierney
8 days ago
👋 Archaeology community, we have some fun news! Archaeologists Engage is pleased to welcome leading social media expert Annelise Baer for our inaugural public talk covering the benefits and pitfalls of public engagement on social media. Free tickets:
www.eventbrite.com/e/archaeolog...
#archaeology
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Stormy weather inspired mark making, remembering all those standing stones over looking Atlantic seascapes
#ArtArchaeology
#ArchaeologyLife
#StandingStoneSunday
#archaeology
#art
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Dr Laura Hodsdon
6 months ago
You can now read all of Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage for free via Open Access
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
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Tim Thomas
9 days ago
Mull / Cornwall Artist Exchange: We are inviting applications from artists based in Cornwall (incl. Isles of Scilly) & on the Isle of Mull, Iona, & Ulva to take part in a new cross-regional artist exchange exploring creative practice in rural places.
associates.creativekernow.org.uk/mull-cornwal...
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An Tobar | An Fenten (The Well): Mull/Cornwall Artist Exchange - Creative Kernow Associates
Organised by CAMP, Creative Kernow Associates (CKA), and An Tobar and Mull Theatre
https://associates.creativekernow.org.uk/mull-cornwall-artist-exchange-an-tobar-an-fenten-the-well/
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Paul Chamberlain
10 days ago
Callanish , no drama , recent snow
#StandingStoneSunday
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Bill Grueskin
11 days ago
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
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11 days ago
Women's work in embroidery globally can act as a powerful form of preserving culture, heritage and identity. Examples include Hausa (Northern Nigeria) left, Palestinian tatreez (top right), Kantha (Bangladesh, West Bengal) and Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
#Womensart
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Kate Sheehan-Finn
12 days ago
1/ Necklace and bracelet from the Balgay Cist burial discovered in 1870s. Reconstructed with some replica beads, the jet jewellery dates to the Bronze Age (4000 years old), belonged to a high status woman.
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
📸 my own, McManus Museum, Dundee.
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The Centre for Robert Burns Studies
11 days ago
Just over 1 week til our
#BurnsSupper225
conference. We’re thrilled that Derek Alexander (
@n-t-s.bsky.social
) will deliver the 2026 Burns Scotland lecture: ‘“That curst restriction”: The Archaeology and History of Illicit and Legal Whisky-Making in Scotland’ 🥃 🎟️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...
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Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
A conference exploring the life, work, and legacy of Robert Burns, this year celebrating the 225th anniversary of the Burns Supper
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-robert-burns-studies-conference-tickets-1851549627779?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Tim Waterman
12 days ago
Book Launch: Katrina Navickas, "Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England." Housman's Books, London, 21 Jan
housmans.com/events/
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Events from Wednesday May 22, 2019 – Wednesday June 12, 2019 – Housmans Bookshop
https://housmans.com/events/
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UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures
12 days ago
🆕Foresight in heritage: fostering future consciousness to proactively face change”, by Hana Morel, Gustav Wollentz, Sarah Forgesson, Amy Iwasaki and Alison Heritage. 👉https://blogg.lnu.se/unesco/?p=4457
#heritagefutures
#futuresliteracy
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New publication: Foresight in Heritage - UNESCO
A new publication focusing on the value of Foresight in heritage was just published with Gustav Wollentz from the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures as a co-author. The article is named “Foresight in h...
https://blogg.lnu.se/unesco/?p=4457
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Kenny Brophy
12 days ago
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...
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Close to home
I grew up in a town called Larkhall in South Lanarkshire, not far from Glasgow. It would be fair to say that this is a place that has a negative reputation at least in west central Scotland, and I …
https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/close-to-home/
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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones
12 days ago
Greenland seems to be in the news. Inuit people have lived there since around 2400 BCE and continue to do do. Our contributor Drew visited and has also posted photos of artefacts in Ilulissat Museum as well as other sites. 1/
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Antiquity Journal
13 days ago
📕
#BookReview
🏺 Brent K.S. Woodfill & Lucia R. Henderson (ed.)'s 'Archaeology in a living landscape' explores the non-human persons, such as landscape features endowed with vitality and veneration, that populate the Indigenous Americas 1/2 🆓
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Tom Cox
about 1 month ago
I think Kit Boyd is one of the most underrated artists in the universe right now. I truly don't understand why people aren't yelling about his prolific psychedelic brilliance from the rooftops.
www.greenwichprintmakers.co.uk/kit-boyd
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Fiona Campbell-Howes
15 days ago
Really looking forward to this one - there's still time to join the
@pictishartssociety.bsky.social
if you'd like to attend this and the other lectures coming up in the series.
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Dr Susan Greaney
16 days ago
Online talk by
@amandachadburn.bsky.social
coming soon! 100 years of Woodhenge - 14 Jan, 7.30pm. Hosted by
@wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social
and tickets available here:
www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...
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Michael Haslam
15 days ago
Want a heritage job? In beautiful usually-there’s-not-this-much-snow
#Orkney
? As part of our community project to reopen the Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles to visitors, we now have three paid positions advertised for 2026. For more info follow the link. Applications close 5pm, 18 January. 🏺
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Work with us
We are happy to announce that we are now advertising three (3) paid positions at the Tomb of the Eagles for 2026. The positions are a Heritage Manager who will oversee day-to-day running of the site…
https://tomboftheeagles.co.uk/work-with-us/
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Jen Baird
15 days ago
The first Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies Seminar series, on Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts, kicks off next week with Hiba Alkhalaf. All welcome! Sign up via the link:
www.bbk.ac.uk/events?tag=1...
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Adam Markham
20 days ago
#climateheritage
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In Chad's Prehistoric Wall Drawings, Lessons in Climate Upheaval
The Ennedi rock art of Chad should not be read as decoration alone, but as a visual narrative of environmental change.
https://undark.org/2025/12/31/ennedi-rock-art-climate/
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Paul Watson
21 days ago
A quick reminder to you all that my online shop is open again, and is stocked with prints of my photography, original drawings, books of my artwork, and the last few copies of Rituals & Declarations:
shop.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/products
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Products
Browse all products from The Lazarus Corporation.
https://shop.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/products
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And rock and water, flows with time...
#TombTuesday
#archaeology
#prehistory
#ArtArchaeology
#art
22 days ago
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Tori Herridge
22 days ago
As a terminus ante quem, a twix wrapper isn’t perfect but it can give OSL a run for its money…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How a chocolate bar wrapper solved an archaeological mystery - BBC News
A team from the University of Glasgow team worked with volunteers and students to excavate the former Kelvin Wheelies park.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg17x9537xo.amp
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And rock and water, flows with time...
#TombTuesday
#archaeology
#prehistory
#ArtArchaeology
#art
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James Wright
25 days ago
Thanks so much to the 5 of you that booked places over the holiday season for the Christmas Lecture... See you on Tuesday! If anyone else wants to join us, you can sign up here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
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25 days ago
Linda Connor / Untitled, 1976
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3 months ago
Let's celebrate women's historic, contemporary & global creativity & achievements in the Arts! ❣️ The Womensart book series tells their fanrastic, often untold, stories in textile arts, paint and print!! 🧡💛❤️
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SCAPE
28 days ago
#4 of our
#Top5
2025 - A new date for Newark, Sanday. Fish, whale & dolphin bone, recorded here over many years, suggested a specialised fish processing site. In early 2025 Storm Éowyn exposed stone buildings buried in sand. We sampled fish bone for radiocarbon dating. The result? ...
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Bill Caraher
28 days ago
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Dr Aisling Tierney
29 days ago
New print drop: prehistoric symbols & figures 🛍️
tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4429...
#prehistory
#archaeology
#archeology
#rockart
#caveart
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Dr Tess Machling
29 days ago
Pre-Christmas present... 🤪 The APPAG Inquiry into Detecting report is out.
#Archaeology
#Detecting
#Treasure
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Wishing you a wonderful
#wintersolstice
A time of rest, reflection and renewal, today was spent playing with images of standing stones and cycles of time.
#StandingStoneSunday
#Art
#ArtArchaeology
#Archaeology
#prehistory
about 1 month ago
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Discover Nature Award
30 days ago
Something new is taking root in Scotland 🌱 Over the past six months, the Discover Nature Award (DNA) has been taking shape. Co-designed by young adults, it is a two-day journey for 18 to 28 year olds to reconnect with the Scottish landscape and find their place in tackling the climate crisis 🌍💪
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