Peter Ross
@peteralanross.bsky.social
Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards.
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I'm thrilled that Upon A White Horse is going to be Radio 4's Book Of The Week. The first episode, which is on Stonehenge, will be on December 8 at 11.45am – and then there will be a reading from a different part of the book every day up to and including December 12. I hope you'll enjoy listening.
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Such a great column by Kenny Farquharson. "Scottish culture is unsmashed. Scottish culture is alive and kicking and all the better for the children of Maxwell Park." www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
A picture that smashes Nigel Farage’s fear-mongering
The Reform leader portrays Glasgow as swamped by foreigners but his monomania is in contrast to Scotland’s vibrant culture
www.thetimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Such a great column by Kenny Farquharson. "Scottish culture is unsmashed. Scottish culture is alive and kicking and all the better for the children of Maxwell Park." www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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Beneath the #Wiltshire Medieval hilltop town of Malmesbury lies a 9ha Iron Age hillfort
Here looking east:
Now (© Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard) and then (© Athelstan Museum)
A wee thread for #HillfortsWednesday 🧵👇
Here looking east:
Now (© Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard) and then (© Athelstan Museum)
A wee thread for #HillfortsWednesday 🧵👇
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Beneath the #Wiltshire Medieval hilltop town of Malmesbury lies a 9ha Iron Age hillfort
Here looking east:
Now (© Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard) and then (© Athelstan Museum)
A wee thread for #HillfortsWednesday 🧵👇
Here looking east:
Now (© Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard) and then (© Athelstan Museum)
A wee thread for #HillfortsWednesday 🧵👇
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Another niche request here, but does anyone with Italian heritage have any good stories/memories around the tradition of La Befana on the epiphany. I'm not clear how much the tradition was exported to the UK?
December 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Another niche request here, but does anyone with Italian heritage have any good stories/memories around the tradition of La Befana on the epiphany. I'm not clear how much the tradition was exported to the UK?
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Wonderful preview of photography exhibition, Still Glasgow, at GOMA. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘The Red Road flats were spectacular – and terrifying’: striking photographs of Glasgow in flux
From Franz Ferdinand fusing a basement pub’s lights to high-rise flats just days before their demolition, a new show captures the changing city. Its photographers talk us through their shots
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Wonderful preview of photography exhibition, Still Glasgow, at GOMA. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Have you ever seen something like this before?
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Have you ever seen something like this before?
The mighty @stereolabgroop.bsky.social in Glasgow. Melodie Is A Wound, the centrepiece of a wonderful show, has to be up there with their greatest songs.
December 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The mighty @stereolabgroop.bsky.social in Glasgow. Melodie Is A Wound, the centrepiece of a wonderful show, has to be up there with their greatest songs.
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I am absolutely delighted that @peteralanross.bsky.social Upon a White Horse is BBCRadio4 Book of the Week. For it is another of my own Books of the Year. Adventurous, ruminative, watchful encounters with place & time
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross, Ring
Journalist Peter Ross joins a festival of hope and renewal at Stonehenge.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I am absolutely delighted that @peteralanross.bsky.social Upon a White Horse is BBCRadio4 Book of the Week. For it is another of my own Books of the Year. Adventurous, ruminative, watchful encounters with place & time
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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New Video: Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social - Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland book - current Radio 4 book of the week! Watch Peter’s full talk here: youtu.be/3UDRtYjLOFo 1/
Peter Ross - Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland book talk from Stone Club
Peter is author of Upon A White Horse and several other highly rated books on experiencing the British and Irish landscape: https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1035414066/megalithicmyst0a
Video by Andy B. Recorded at Stone Club at the Social, 20th October 2025
https://stoneclub.rocks/events/
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December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
New Video: Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social - Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland book - current Radio 4 book of the week! Watch Peter’s full talk here: youtu.be/3UDRtYjLOFo 1/
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If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
One of the special things about Idlewild playing the Barrowlands is that, every time they do so, Edwin Morgan's voice fills that hallowed room. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bueW...
Idlewild - The Remote Part/Scottish Fiction - Barrowlands - Glasgow - 08/12/2025
YouTube video by emmockladdie
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December 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
One of the special things about Idlewild playing the Barrowlands is that, every time they do so, Edwin Morgan's voice fills that hallowed room. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bueW...
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This is such a great idea, making tiny, remote, usually closed, churches, rich in art, accessible via a QR code, although I do quite like the challenge of hunting down the key.
‘When the church door opens, it’s like a miracle’: the phone app that’s a key to Italy’s religious art
‘When the church door opens, it’s like a miracle’: the phone app that’s a key to Italy’s religious art
A cultural initiative in Piedmont is unlocking a trove of priceless medieval frescoes in rural churches
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This is such a great idea, making tiny, remote, usually closed, churches, rich in art, accessible via a QR code, although I do quite like the challenge of hunting down the key.
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Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Just a quick reminder, for those interested in listening, that Upon A White Horse is Radio 4's Book of the Week – and the first part will be broadcast at 11.45am today.
I'm thrilled that Upon A White Horse is going to be Radio 4's Book Of The Week. The first episode, which is on Stonehenge, will be on December 8 at 11.45am – and then there will be a reading from a different part of the book every day up to and including December 12. I hope you'll enjoy listening.
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Just a quick reminder, for those interested in listening, that Upon A White Horse is Radio 4's Book of the Week – and the first part will be broadcast at 11.45am today.
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It was a pleasure to see David Boulter perform his work, including pieces from recent @claypipemusic.bsky.social album "Whitby", at Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre. A special place to experience live music. They host gigs every month. Photos by Robin Mitchell.
December 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It was a pleasure to see David Boulter perform his work, including pieces from recent @claypipemusic.bsky.social album "Whitby", at Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre. A special place to experience live music. They host gigs every month. Photos by Robin Mitchell.
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This is such brilliant archaeology. There's a bit of a persistent story that Britain was somehow culturally separate from europe in the Roman empire when it was so intertwined and connected by people and goods travelling.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rare mosaic in Rutland reveals forgotten Trojan War tale - BBC News
A paper by experts at the University of Leicester has been described as a "fascinating development".
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is such brilliant archaeology. There's a bit of a persistent story that Britain was somehow culturally separate from europe in the Roman empire when it was so intertwined and connected by people and goods travelling.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Parr said his brightly coloured, closely observed pictures of British life were ‘disguised as entertainment’ but they became hugely popular
Martin Parr, the British documentary photographer who captured the peculiarities of the nation with clarity and hilarity, has died aged 73. He had been diagnosed with cancer in May 2021.
Known for his acute observations of the English class system, Parr’s images covered sunbathers and Conservative clubs, village fetes and coffee mornings, often in vivid colour and with more than a dash of humour. His iconic 1986 photobook The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton captured working-class holidaymakers in the Wirral, Liverpool and helped mark a sea change in British documentary photography, from the gritty, black and white style of the past towards a cheekier and more colourful style. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
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Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this!
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this!
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
I’m reading @graemethomson.bsky.social’s excellent biography of Kate Bush, Under The Ivy, and am moved by this bit where she’s *still at school* and her dad plays the unreleased Man With The Child In His Eyes for a caller at the farm.
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I’m reading @graemethomson.bsky.social’s excellent biography of Kate Bush, Under The Ivy, and am moved by this bit where she’s *still at school* and her dad plays the unreleased Man With The Child In His Eyes for a caller at the farm.
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Today on our podcast we are joined by Manni Coe, author of Little Ruins.
We discuss landscape, stones and memory. We delve into painful memories as wll as talking about finding love and a place to live, walk and to write. We chat about pilgrimage and transformation.
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
We discuss landscape, stones and memory. We delve into painful memories as wll as talking about finding love and a place to live, walk and to write. We chat about pilgrimage and transformation.
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
December 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Today on our podcast we are joined by Manni Coe, author of Little Ruins.
We discuss landscape, stones and memory. We delve into painful memories as wll as talking about finding love and a place to live, walk and to write. We chat about pilgrimage and transformation.
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
We discuss landscape, stones and memory. We delve into painful memories as wll as talking about finding love and a place to live, walk and to write. We chat about pilgrimage and transformation.
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
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Country diary: Lapwings are birds of my childhood – finally they have returned | Kate Blincoe's
Country diary: Lapwings are birds of my childhood – finally they have returned | Kate Blincoe's
Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: I have memories of seeing them at night, on our pyjama-clad safaris round the farm, but they haven’t been here for a decade
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Country diary: Lapwings are birds of my childhood – finally they have returned | Kate Blincoe's
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A wee bit I wrote about the hammerblow of watching people from the country that gave us the Glasgow girls and Kenmure Street turn to the right. And about the opportunism of Farage as he heads north. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nigel Farage was once run out of Edinburgh. Now Scottish voters are embracing his rabble-rousing | Dani Garavelli
The Reform leader is exploiting growing resentment towards migrants and hosting a sold-out event - something unimaginable just a few years ago, says freelance columnist Dani Garavelli
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
A wee bit I wrote about the hammerblow of watching people from the country that gave us the Glasgow girls and Kenmure Street turn to the right. And about the opportunism of Farage as he heads north. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Really enjoyed Aproxima’s concert for the rededication of the well in Glasgow Cathedral tonight. Very evocative. Highlight was a beautiful song The Well Within written by Karine Polwart and sung by Siobhan Miller.
December 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Really enjoyed Aproxima’s concert for the rededication of the well in Glasgow Cathedral tonight. Very evocative. Highlight was a beautiful song The Well Within written by Karine Polwart and sung by Siobhan Miller.
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Bizarre mix-up at draw as winner of World Cup accidentally revealed seven months in advance
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Bizarre mix-up at draw as winner of World Cup accidentally revealed seven months in advance
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Northern Earth 182, Winter 2025, is out now! In this issue: Fairport Convention and liminal topo of the Winchester Downs, New Troy and the Sandridge Geoglyph, Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social (Upon a White Horse) interview, Bleasdale–Round Loaf alignment, lots more. Sub:
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December 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Northern Earth 182, Winter 2025, is out now! In this issue: Fairport Convention and liminal topo of the Winchester Downs, New Troy and the Sandridge Geoglyph, Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social (Upon a White Horse) interview, Bleasdale–Round Loaf alignment, lots more. Sub: