🌳 Does Gaelic really have a “Tree Alphabet”? 🌲 theaddersden.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/%... #SeachdainNaGàidhlig #Gàidhlig #scottishgaelic #GaelicWeek #GaelicCulture #SeachdainNaGàidhlig2026 #WorldGaelicWeek2026 #cleachdi #Gaelic #bòrdnagàidhlig #scotland #history #archaeology #linguistics

Love #Wikipedia editors 🥰 We created Ellen's page this morning and already another editor has improved it by adding a photo. This is Ellen Moxley and her partner Helen Steven receiving the Gandhi International Peace Prize in 2004 📷Gandhi Foundation on Wikimedia Commons

📑 It’s World Gaelic week, so why not read about the history of Gaelic in Scotland: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/20... #worldgaelicweek #SeachdainnaGàidhlig 1/3

Kate Forbes is being lauded for creating Gàidhlig preservation funding, but she's also a raging queerphobe, so do forgive me if I'm struggling to join in with her enthusiasm.

I now understand how the idea of a kelpie arose conceptually

Happy pancake day to all who shrive

theaddersden.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/%... #scotland #history #folklore #scottishfolklore #banshee #folkhorror #horror #massacre #betrayal #death #harbinger 🗃️

A threshold mosaic at the entrance to the Corona Bar on Pollokshaws Road on the Southside of Glasgow. The symbol in the middle is a play on the local place name Crossmyloof. Cont./ #glasgow #crossmyloof #scottishhistory #architecture #maryqueenofscots

#OtD 6 Feb 1974 with the prospect of a UK-wide coalminers strike Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath called a snap election under the slogan "Who governs Britain?" - meaning the government, or the unions? He lost, and miners won 35% pay increase workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e81-...

And at some places, we can feel closer to the rhythms of the world... Cairn Holy 1 chambered cairn is a remarkable monument which has been visibly revisted and reused for nearly six thousand years. #prehistory #TombTuesday @archscot.bsky.social @the.stone.club @megalithic.bsky.social

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🌱 Happy St Bride’s Day/Là Fhèill Brighde or Imbolc/Imbolg to those celebrating 🔥 There are so many Gaelic folk traditions associated with this day. For example, the tradition of reciting St Bride’s genealogy 3 times in a row. Read more here: theaddersden.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/%... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗃️🏺🇮🇪🇮🇲

Documentary about Kenmure Street protest wins Sundance Film Festival award

🪨♥️ Well worth a look at the article, images & 3D models 👀⬇️ Article: insitu.org.uk/2025/10/30/a... Example 3D model: skfb.ly/pFTpY #scotland #aberdeenshire #archaeology #history #stonecircle #religion #christianity #prechristian #pagan #3Dmodel 🏺🗃️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Our brand new podcast, Folklore Matters, launches today. David Clarke, Sophie Parkes-Nield, and Diane Rodgers speak to people working with or researching folklore to find out more about their work, how they discovered folklore, and to get their thoughts on the findings of the Survey.

Watch yourself out there folks! There’s a lot of bammery about! #BylinesScotlandAdvice

“Of all the beings with which fear or fancy peopled the supernatural, the Fairies were the most intimately associated with men’s daily life.” - Campbell, 'The Gaelic Otherworld' 1900

theaddersden.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/%... #scotland #shetland #norse #scots #folklore #history #yule #christmas #folkmagic

Nice to see a Corn Bunting in my garden today. The first time since the Winter of 1982/83 when I had 100+ regularly sitting in the trees here. The farmer had planted the field in front of the house with neeps and they were feeding in there. The same has happened this year. #birdingscotland

Read the full story here: www.thenational.scot/news/2576135...

#OtD 10 Jan 1979 during the Winter of Discontent the number of lorry drivers across Scotland and northern England on wildcat strike against government-union pay restraint reached 50,000. Drivers picketed ports and warehouses to stop trucks moving goods stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8197...

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🗓️ While most in Scotland would consider the Christmas period to be over by now, there’s a wee island up in Shetland that celebrates their Christmas Day today. There’s a nice article in the Press and Journal that details Christmas traditions in Foula: www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/6318... 🗃️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Due to popular demand, 'Traversing the Inner Seas' is available in print again, in case you missed it the first time around!

Image du 3 janvier : The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, better known as The Skating Minister (1790s), by Henry Raeburn. #wikimedia #cpod #fr

theaddersden.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/%... #scotland #hogmanay #newyear #tradition #folklore #history 🗃️

While witch hunts in Scotland are a thing of the past, they’re still going on in other parts of the world - please help if you can ⬇️ gofund.me/7232aacaf 🗃️🏺 #witch #witchcraft #justice #humanitarian #women

youtu.be/nEYB6sGxNew #scots #scotland #hogmanay #newyear #christmas #scotslanguage

Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations are to feature on a global stage this New Year’s Eve, as the capital hosts CNN who will broadcast live from the city 👇

🎄Merry Christmas/Blythe Yule/Nollaig Chridheil to everyone celebrating 🎶 👻 This time of year is yet another time when supernatural beings are thought to be more active than usual, so why not read a wee ghost story involving clan feuds & spooky mirrors: www.heraldscotland.com/news/1579187... 🪞

🎄 Wee seasonal reshare on some of the history of Scotland’s complicated relationship with Christmas, from it being banned in the late 1500s to finally becoming an official Bank Holiday in the early 1970s: theaddersden.wordpress.com/2021/12/19/s... 📰 #christmas #yule #christianity #presbyterian 🗃️

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"En bock som jag bor förstås i Gävle! 🐐✨ Men ni då vänner, var i världen håller ni hus? 🌍 A goat like me lives in Gävle, of course! 🐐✨ What about you friends, where in the world do you live? 🌍"

🎄Christmas is fast approaching, & since many will have their trees up by now I thought I’d share these photos from the St Conan’s Kirk Christmas Tree Festival. I loved the creativity of the shell tree, & of course the Halloween tree over the entrance to the crypt lol 👻 🧵 1/3

A poem by Edwin Morgan inscribed into a flagstone on Candleriggs in Glasgow, just outside the City Halls. Born in 1920, Morgan became the city's first poet laureate in 1999. Cont./ #glasgow #streetart #poetry #edwinmorgan #glasgowcoatofarms #streetpoetry

R B K STEVENSON AWARD: ‘Revisiting Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney’ by Hazel Moore FSAScot and Graeme Wilson FSAScot (with contributions by Seren Griffiths) Delve into some of the most complete Neolithic stone houses in Northwest Europe in this open access paper: doi.org/10.9750/PSAS...

Empowering Young People Through Archaeology Please contribute to our fundraising appeal, every pound you give will be matched by the Big Give and your help greatly appreciated donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... #archaeology #scotland #learning

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CFP: “Our three-voiced country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing 26–28 Jun 2026 @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social, Skye Proposals invited exploring literary interactions between #Gaelic, Scots & English in the 20th century #litstudies www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-...

The Harbour and Pier, #Kinlochleven  [source: HLH Libraries]

📣 New Podcast! "17 November 1915: Glasgow rent strike women protest" on @Spreaker #glasgow #history #womens

A full and fulsome obituary for 'our' Elspeth, from Sorcha Dallas Gray at the @agrayarchive.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🎲📖 “TTRPG Setting Guide • Visual Encyclopaedia • Academic Digest” - looks amazing & has won high praise from experts for what we know about the Picts. Definitely worth looking into for anyone interested in that culture. 🎨 It comes as either just a PDF or a book & PDF set: carvedinstone.scot 🧵1/2 🏺

Very much looking forward to this! 🎄

🗓️🧵“Auld Halloween” would likely have been about this time. So, I thought I’d share some associated folklore about some “Carlin” - a Scots term meaning “old woman”- characters that you’d want to avoid meeting: theaddersden.wordpress.com/2024/10/29/%... 🍻🧈 #scotland #folklore 🗃️ 📸 Photo from Pexel

Fog shroud and clouds (when the clock chimed late in the heavy November night- time) lifting the mystery for a greater… —Edwin Morgan, “Guy Fawkes Moon” published in COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997 #poem #poetry #GuyFawkes #BonfireNight www.carcanet.co.uk/978184777965...

🌌 Wee reshare: mare stanes & their use against nightmares & a surprising addition one woman had made to hers - human teeth! ⬇️ 🐍 theaddersden.wordpress.com/2022/09/19/m... ⬅️ 📸 Lovely photo very kindly provided by fabulous artist Jane Brideson - search for Wisdom of The Cailleach for more 🏺 🗃️