Aspects of Norfolk Flint Circle, Richard Long, 1990 @tate.bsky.social Bankside

“A circle outdoors is part of the place it is in, sometimes as far as the eyes can see, while indoors the circle and materials demand more attention” Norfolk Flint Circle, Richard Long, 1990 @tate.bsky.social Bankside

Gavrinis is the most amazing megalithic site I have been privileged to visit. Taking a boat to reach, you encounter a remarkable concentration of #Neolithic rock art at a single megalithic monument. A deeply powerful & inspiring place. @megalithic.bsky.social #rockart #archaeology #TombTuesday

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅

Interesting article from @uk.theconversation.com on the digital physicality of data - re-use of #heritage structures and literal #digitalarchaeology of the future theconversation.com/underground-...

​Help us turn £10,000 into £2,000,000! ​We're raising funds for a 2-year project to showcase the 1,500-year-old Govan Old graveyard. ​Hitting our £10k goal unlocks over £2M in pledged funding for our building's future. Your donation has a massive impact. ​ tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

Stephen Mullen's excellent book on this topic, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 is available to read for free from our website: uolpress.co.uk/book/the-gla... #OpenAccess #History #Slavery #Scotland

GWL is commissioning new works for our #WeMakeMuseums project to be exhibited at Glasgow International 2026. We’re seeking women artists with socially engaged, intersectional practices informed by environmental, class-aware, & anti-racist approaches. womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/24/a...

SR Crockett (1859–1914) was born #OTD, 24 Sep. A bestselling author of 60+ novels, he fell from fashion, his books dismissed as “kailyard”. But Tolkien cites Crockett as an inspiration, & in VIDA, or THE IRON LORD (1907) he possibly wrote the first car chase in fiction… #C19th 1890s.ca/crockett_bio/

I would be endlessly grateful if you were to support this crucial fundraising effort for Govan Old's 1,500-year-old graveyard and the @govanstones.bsky.social museum! 💲❤️ tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

NETTLES: A Launch & Showcase 16 Oct, @byleaveswelive.bsky.social, Edinburgh – free Launching NETTLES, @nazaretranea.bsky.social’s debut poetry collection, plus readings from four of the young poets taking part in Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makars scheme www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nettles-a-...

Reduce the environmental impact of your museum's learning, outreach and public programmes with this handy toolkit www.artfund.org/professional... @artfund.bsky.social @designmuseum.bsky.social @icomuk.bsky.social

There’s still time to book your spot for the next This is Archaeology lecture! Discover how the ARC, volunteers, communities, and partners are bringing collections to life through research, public engagement, and wellbeing projects. 2nd October | 7 - 8 pm | Free & online 👉

Catherine has spent the last couple of Saturday afternoons hiding from the rain in the wonderful #WestWemyss Mining Museum #Fife working with Tam on completing the West to #EastWemyss walk. For more about the museum follow the thread…. #MiningHeritage #MiningHistory

Snorkelling to the #ShooglyHolm underwater sea-life hotel! 🤿 ℹ️: tinyurl.com/3kzbrpjp 📷 by Karen Boswarva & Katy Firth (@creativescots.bsky.social, @jpopstudios.bsky.social & @artecology-iw.bsky.social )

Are YOU interested in writing a book review & receiving a FREE book??! 🧡❤️💜 If you have want to write a review of my book 'Reframing Women Printmakers', live in the UK, and have a popular blog, magazine or are part of sites like GoodReads please email me [email protected]

Good morning. Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern. 40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith. You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

So fantastic to see that @preservinglegacies.bsky.social is in the running for this @gcadaptation.bsky.social award. The team is doing incredible work. #climateheritage #resilience #climatejustice 🌏 HT @andrewspotts.bsky.social

This weekend I will be here, for a conference dedicated to Atlantic Rock Art - isn't it appropriate? 🤩 My dear friend and mentor told me a while back "Now you are the guardian of this knowledge". Thank you for everything you taught me, and I wish you were still here 🤍

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Excited to be at @museumid.bsky.social conference with our director Giulia Gregnanin presenting Timespan vision of becoming an Institution of the Commons. A brilliant panel with representatives from @beamishmuseum.bsky.social Glasgow Museums, Museo Egizio and chaired by @profdanhicks.bsky.social

and fourth up a storming talk by Guilia Gregnanin, Director of @timespanhelmsdale.bsky.social , about “redefining the museum as a shared resource“ #museumideas

💥 #museumideas 2025 kicking off with Helen Barker and Geraldine Straker from @beamishmuseum.bsky.social talking about “Collecting Together: Shaping stories with communities at Beamish Museum”

If you, like me, would love to see the first broch built in Scotland in over two thousand years, please help out by making a donation. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/buy-the-br... Learn more about the Caithness Broch Project at www.thebrochproject.co.uk/the-big-broc...

Here’s a round up of today at the #WildSummitUK coordinated by @wclnews.bsky.social - thought provoking & great conversations. I’ve come away feeling we have more common agendas that we can explore. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19660...

I’ve supported three courses, and a fourth one is coming up in October. This will consist of creative workshops where we test some of the activities for engaging public audiences. I’m running an introduction session on 26th September. It will be lovely to see you if you are curious.

BEFS calls for greater heritage recognition in culture funding conversations. Our pre-budget scrutiny response highlights maintenance, reuse & repair of existing buildings as preventative spend supporting culture, carbon targets, tourism & housing emergency: www.befs.org.uk/wp-c... #CultureFunding

Congratulations to Dr Penny Johnson, Eva Kourela and other contributors to the upcoming "Beneath Our Feet: Art & Archaeology Exhibition" 20 Sept–8 Oct, St Peters, Cork. It will feature the work of a range of archaeologist and artists and promises to be a great event. www.corkcity.ie/en/council-s...

Glasgow's radical history! Check out this @gbptrust.bsky.social event next week on 'how ordinary Glaswegians took on an arrogant landowner and successfully defended the "liberties of the banks of the Clyde"' Just one of many events for Glasgow Doors Open Days www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/harvies-dy...

Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Can you spot the Viking-Age processional way? Note also the intriguing, massive, building foundations, all of which are being investigated throughout this week (inc. SATURDAY and SUNDAY) on the University of Glasgow Archaeology Field School being held with Clyde Archaeology, led by Prof. Driscoll!

Our collection 'Alternative Economies of Heritage' is now published! Easily available for those who have library subscriptions to Routledge! Proud of this collaboration with my University of Canberra colleagues Denise and Bethaney www.routledge.com/Alternative-...

Ever wondered what life was like at the end of the Ice Age? What did people eat? How did they make tools? Come and meet the PALaEoScot team at Explorathon on Sept 14th 11am-4pm at UoA’s King’s College in Old Aberdeen and meet our living prehistorians at their camp! Link below ⬇️

Help! My Minecraft's gone early medieval! No, seriously, I'm gonna be building early medieval Scotland block by block, using our new book, Carved in Stone, as a guide! Do you think the Picts made charcoal out of lava? No? Are you sure? 🏺 #archaeology #ArchaeologySky youtu.be/iAyh4PJYXQ0

A deeper challenge: First nations underwater cultural heritage in #Australia. The possibility of underwater archaeology from Australia's deep past. share.google/kCcIOzt1k28H... #IndigenousPeoples #underwaterculturalheritage #heritagelaws #fishtraps

What a treat to have won the McLellan #Poetry Prize. Thanks to judge Jim Carruth, Arran Theatre & Arts Trust & the whole ecology of poets - encouragers; editors; mentors, dearest peers. My grateful poem is here www.arrantheatreandarts.co.uk/_files/ugd/a... @asls.org.uk @byleaveswelive.bsky.social

Join us for our Annual Conference: SUFFICIENCY, as we explore the radical idea that knowing what is enough could transform our world. 📌 Edinburgh & ONLINE 📆 Friday 3rd - Sunday 5th October 🎟 seda.scot/seda-conference-2025

As I am writing about the art inspired by the challenge of remembering nuclear waste, I wanted to share a unique award-winning design that exemplifies how people who aren’t convinced you can just disappear waste think about this task. On a runway so this may be short… 1/

"The concept of wildness in Scotland is both politically and culturally contentious with a long history for the term ‘wild’ being..." WANT TO KNOW THE NEXT PART? I know you do. Guess you'll have to read Edward Stewart's article here for FREE: www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to have co-authored this piece with Tatiana Ivlena on Women in Romano British Archaeology #womeninarchaeology #Roman #Archaeology the-past.com/feature/expa...

30/8/25 - nocturn

“The die-offs we are witnessing in our forests this year may be nature’s final alarm bell – a desperate call for action, cooperation and adaptation in how we live and operate, at the local, regional and global levels." www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/127...

Not much posting today as we were so busy with visitors on site today. But the team have done an awesome job exposing several sections of the concrete runs & bowls at #KelvinWheelies!

This is a truly beautiful section! It’s cut through the Cobra slalom run at #KelvinWheelies. Hats off to @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social for overseeing a cracking piece of archaeology in this trench!

I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others. doi.org/10.1017/S095...

You can follow our excavations at the KG \ Kelvin Wheelies 1970s skatepark in Glasgow all week by following #KelvinWheelies! Thanks in advance to our funders @socantscot.bsky.social & partners @archscot.bsky.social + Archaeology at @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Digging test pits in front of chambered cairn in Crarae Gardens. #TombTuesday @n-t-s.bsky.social

I’ve set up a blog for the Practises Make Places project. This will form part of my creative practice and will be regularly updated from October 🙂 www.practisesmakeplaces.wordpress.com

And we are off! Test pitting in front of the chambered cairn at Crarae Gardens @n-t-s.bsky.social this week.