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Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland

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Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/ PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music. she/her, disabled 🏳️‍🌈

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Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social · Feb 7

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Hi everyone, I'm Meg! I draw women who lived all around the world 1000 years ago for my Women of 1000 project. womenof1000ad.weebly.com

Meanwhile, my PhD research is about music in the lives of Scottish & Irish herring gutters. blogs.ed.ac.uk/s1848641/

Happy to be here! 🏳️‍🌈

Coloured pencil illustration. A Native American mother and daughter sit watching a ballgame. The mother is cheering with one arm in the air and the other around her daughter. Her daughter is eating popcorn out of a ceramic jar. The mother wears a white turban, turquoise earrings, and a shell necklace with pendants. She has red body paint on her stomach. Her daughter wears a red poncho. On the right is a standing man and on the left an old man sitting wrapped in a blanket. In the distance are mounds, pit houses, cacti and mountains.

Coloured pencil illustration. A Turkish woman dressed in a bright red and golden robe sits playing chess at a table. Her pieces are green and her opponent’s are brown. Behind her is a richly carved wall with panels of painted marble. The view out the window shows mountains in the distance. The woman has a black and gold hat studded with gold, pearls and turquoise, as well as gold and turquoise jewellery. She has a confident grin on her face.

Photo. A copy of Scottish Studies volume 39 is on a wooden table. There is a seashell next to it. The cover shows a photo of herring gutters working from the Scottish Fisheries Museum. This volumes contains my first published academic article from 2022.

Photo. A white woman with wavy blonde hair and big sunglasses smiles. She is standing in a cloister of Utrecht Cathedral - garden plants and Gothic architecture are visible behind her. She is standing with a cane and wearing a blue jacket.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 1d

I repost a lot of art to spread the joy but some of my very favorite artists on here don't include alt text and while I'm sure they have their reasons, it does hurt me every time not to be able to repost their stuff, but I keep the people who follow me and rely on alt text in my mind always 💜

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 1d

👻 Poyvfekcv (Boh-yuh-fick-chuh) is Mvskoke for spirit or ghost

💚 Lanē (Lah-nee) means green

💜 4 inches or 10 1/2 cm

Poyvfekcv Lanē (Green Ghost) Brick Stitch Fringe Beaded Earrings - cvkvlv.com/products/poy...

#Halloween #Beadwork #Mvskoke #Indigenous

A pair of purple/green beaded fringe earrings with ghosts on them

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Jay 🌲 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 1d

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#telekitneticart #formline #indigenousart #LGBTQ

An 8x8 inch art print of a symmetrical formline raven, coloured black with cascading rainbow highlights on their wings, head crest, and beak. The raven forms a heart shape.

A formline design of a butterfly cocoon and a butterfly, coloured in blue, pink, and white. On one half of the chrysalis is a human face, and the butterfly’s wings are formed of human hands.

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chetom ✨🐸 @chetom.bsky.social · 2d

ginkgo leaves for #peachtober25leaf day! 🐸🍁🍂 #frogart

cute tiny frogs hanging from a ginkgo branch with yellow leaves in the autumn cozy autumn vibes cottagecore cute frogs artwork by chetom

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 2d

A new Early Medieval Europe virtual issue on Travel and Mobility in the Early Middle Ages, featuring five brilliant articles published over the past 20 years by Andy Merrills, Paul Dutton, Frank Riess, Ben Allport and Rebecca Thomas: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Beyond migrations: travel and mobility in the early Middle Ages: Early Medieval Europe

Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2d

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame!

Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago!

It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet.

Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum

#Archaeology

British Museum photo showing a two-player board game with gaming counters known as the Royal Game of Ur. Dated c. 2,500 BC.

The game board is composed of a hollow box made of wood adorned with shell plaques. There is a drawer at one end for storing game pieces and dice. The top of the board is covered with twenty square-shaped off-white shell plaques, each bordered with dark-blue lapis lazuli. The shell squares are intricately decorated with blue inlaid patterns including dots inside circles and eye-shapes. Five squares are inlaid with flower-shaped rosettes with red limestone and blue lapis lazuli petals.

The game board is roughly rectangular in shape. Viewed from above in the photo, on the left side of the board is a block of 12 squares made up of 4 across by 3 down. On the right side of the board is a block of 6 squares made up of 2 across by 3 down. The two blocks are joined by two squares extending between the second square down on the end row of the left block and the second square down on the first row of the second block.

Dimensions H: 2.40 cm, L: 30.10 cm, W: 11 cm, (W 5.70 cm at narrowest part)

Beneath the board are 14 disc-shaped gaming counters. On the left are 7 white pieces, inlaid with 5 spots of blue lapis lazuli. On the right are 7 black pieces inlaid with five white spots.

Between the game pieces are three tetrahedron-shaped dice. L to R: Dark blue, brown, cream.

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Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social · 2d

The back and forth between endometriosis flares and chronic migraine attacks is kicking my butt lately. However, here's a sneak preview of the picture I'm working on set in Iran near the Caspian Sea.

#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Photo of a closeup on a sketchbook. There is a pencil and ink drawing of a woman reclining on a cushioned bench. She is looking down at the Saluki dog sitting on the floor below her.

Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social · 2d

My dad, William Hyland, just self-published his first poetry collection! The Otters' Song explores the lives and legends of early medieval Irish saints through poetry. ☘️🕊️🦦

Pick up your copy at the link! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

www.lulu.com/shop/william...

The Otters' Song

This is a collection of poetic meditations on the saints and religious culture of early Christian Ireland. The poems, which each include a small introduction, feature St Patrick and include many other...

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Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, that was a really cool read!

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 3d

Here's my English translation of the twenty-fifth Nahuatl poem in the codex SONGS OF THE LORDS OF ANAHUAC (known by its Spanish title "Romances de los señores de la Nueva España").

No One Will Remain

The twenty-fifth cuicatl in Songs of the Lords of Anahuac, my English translation of the codex Romances de los señores de la Nueva España.

davidbowles.medium.com

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 3d

Belle Shore Apartments.

A colorful terra cotta entrance to a vintage apartment building in the art deco style.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 3d

For #HillfortsWednesday, here's Segsbury Camp (also known as Letcombe Castle) #Oxfordshire

A gloriously tactile painting of the hillfort by the supremely talented @annadillon.bsky.social from 2010

annadillon.com/segsbury.html

For more of her amazing work see: annadillon.com 😊👍

A painting of the grass and tree covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with brooding clouds in the distance

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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 3d

Publication alert! An all-too-rare collab with Prof Stephen Driscoll, updating his chapter for the venerable old Archaeology of Britain textbook in its shiny new 3rd edition. A snapshot of current work on early medieval Scotland and Wales. Put it on your reading lists!
doi.org/10.4324/9780...

Early medieval Celtic Britain | 12 | v3 | The early historic period |

The vacuum created by the collapse of the Roman province of Britannia created a vortex of movement which would shape the centuries to come. Some Roman citizens

doi.org

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 2d

#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Cover image of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body. On the complex imagery reproduced on the cover, read the book!

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norree @norree.bsky.social · 2d

A poster I illustrated to celebrate the wonderful animals of Fife, Scotland! 🌿 🦌 🦊 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #scotland #illustration #animalart

If you'd like to buy prints, cards, stickers, or a tote bag with this design, I have an online shop now! 💚
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1727...

An illustrated poster of a variety of animals from Fife, Scotland. There is a puffin, Scottish wild cat, arctic tern, meadow brown, wood mouse, red fox, bottlenose dolphin, rose deer, herring gull, and grey seal!

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Littleevil0ne *COMMS OPEN* @littleevil0ne.bsky.social · 3d

🔥 Moths to the Flame 🔥
#myart #Halloween #halloweenart #art

A portrait of a woman with flame hair and orange eyes. She is surrounded by moths lured to the flame of her hair and eyes

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 3d

We've finally made it to #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖

Here's a reconstruction of Buckspool coastal promontory fort in south Pembrokeshire, a craggy limestone headland defended by a set of intermittent banks & packed with house platforms 😮

Excavations in 2025 revealed a wealth of Roman finds 🏺

📷 My own

Drawing of a coastal fort seen from the air with many roundhouses inside & smoke rising

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 3d

I might be biased but I think my lesbian enamel pin designs are some of my best.

Happy #InternationalLesbianDay! canopyrobin.etsy.com

three enamel pins in lesbian colours: a frog, a circle that says "It's Dr, actually", and a rectangular lesbian flag with a trans inclusive chevron on the left.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...

Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House

Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 4d

'Two Rabbits in the Moonlight' - Imao Keinen, ca. 1930s.
#FullMoon #shinhanga #JapaneseArt

Two white rabbits beside water, tall grass and flowers in the foreground and a full moon in the sky above.

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Bex Glendining @lgions.bsky.social · 15d

haze

a digital illustration of a women, her back turned away from the viewer. in the sky is different sea creatures, including whales and rays. there's clouds in the sunset sky, and green plants at the bottom surrounding the character

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Jay 🌲 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 25d

🏞️🪶 Raven Immemorial 🪶🏞️ #formline #telekitneticart
#paleoart

A print illustration with a limited green, cream, and dark blue palette. The poster is divided into six rectangular sections. The top left shows a formline design of a raven in flight. The top right shows an illustration of Hornby Island Azhdarchids. The middle left shows a cliff overlooking the ocean, with bird-like silhouettes flying above. The middle right shows a shoreline of the ocean, with bird-like tracks in the sand. The bottom left shows an illustration of a raven. The bottom right shows a formline illustration of a Hornby Island Azhdarchid in flight.

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Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social · 4d

It's not horror, more just magical realism/paranormal, but When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky by Margaret Verble.

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Davesphotos 🇨🇦 🍁🍁🍁 @davesadventures.bsky.social · 4d

Another week. Another #BlueSkyMonday!! A great way to start the week! #Photography #EastCoastKin

a section of a rainbow with a seagull flying through it

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 4d

Golden Embers - watercolour and digital, 2015 (I think?)

It's been a long time since I posted this vengeful queen. Back when my style was a little more abstract and weird.

A queen with a RBF stands with her hands on a sword's hilt. Her skirt is an abstract view into a kingdom on fire.

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