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Dr Laura Harrison
@lauraharrison.bsky.social
Historian | Knitter | Senior Heritage Engagement Officer at Historic Environment Scotland | Canadian in Scotland | Often outside | She/her | Views my own
Given everything happening on the other apps, thinking I might try to merge my heritage/history and knitting selves over here?

Anyways, here are some of my favourite things I knit last year!
January 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Exciting mail 🎉 Big thanks to our editors @scottmanning.com & Kevin Harty, & my co-author Andrew Elliott! I’ve been wanting to write this for a long time & getting to with one of my favourite writers/people to talk medievalism with still feels like a fever dream. Congrats to all involved!
November 29, 2024 at 9:29 AM
But by far my favourite part were these two. The first was made by a Japanese woman imprisoned in an internment camp in Canada, from cigarette packs and fabric scraps from kimonos. The second made by Canadian women for civilian relief and sent to the Netherlands.

Very War Through Other Stuff 💛
November 25, 2024 at 9:25 AM
A few weeks ago I was in Canada visiting family and I got to go to the Quilts: Made in Canada exhibition @romtoronto.bsky.social with my Grandma Eileen, a quilter herself.

Here is my grandma refusing to be sat in her wheelchair because she wanted to be closer to the quilts, and some of my favs.
November 25, 2024 at 9:25 AM
First time on Bluesky in several months and it was a lovely surprise to find so many of you over here!

Here is Preston Market Cross, visited during a team development day last week to see the exciting work happening at Preston Tower. This brought my number of Historic Scotland sites visited to 50%!
November 18, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Snowy Properties in Care are the best kind
December 2, 2023 at 10:45 AM
My WFH view this week. No notes.
November 20, 2023 at 9:59 AM
As ever, I haven’t been able to engage with @museumsassociation.bsky.social conference this week as much as I’d hoped. But very pleased to be here for ‘Whose past is it anyway? Nostalgia, belonging and inclusion’

And obviously taking time for some meeting-knitting too
November 8, 2023 at 3:42 PM
And Edinburgh put on a real show in the sunshine from the Esplanade
November 6, 2023 at 3:20 PM
Great to finally visit Nzira Yeparuware - A Path Upon A Rock today! This immersive sound walk was developed by artist Tanatsei Gambura and explores Scotland’s involvement in Zimbabwe’s history using recordings from Harare’s Scottish-named sites. On until the end of the month at Edinburgh Castle.
November 6, 2023 at 3:19 PM