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Simon @malkydungeon.bsky.social · 15d

The Govan Stones is one of the most important historical sites in Scotland.
It's one of the few surviving places that has material evidence for this lost kingdom and culture of that most elusive early medieval people, the North Britons and I'd love to see it preserved for the future

The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 15d

🎉 We've hit 10,000 Facebook followers!

💲 Please help us raise £10,000 of crucial funding - Just £1 per follower would get us to our goal.

Thank you all so much for following, and for any donation you can make!

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Graveyard Guardians: showcasing Govan's Archaeology and Natural Heritage

Govan Heritage Trust is hoping you can help us raise £10,000 for a project that will transform the future of the Govan Stones and Govan Old. We're raising money for a 2-year initiative that will showc

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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 15d

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...

Graveyard Guardians: showcasing Govan's Archaeology and Natural Heritage

Govan Heritage Trust is hoping you can help us raise £10,000 for a project that will transform the future of the Govan Stones and Govan Old. We're raising money for a 2-year initiative that will showc

tghts.enthuse.com

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Nicole Maceira Cumming @nicolemaceira.bsky.social · 20d

Great to see the latest issue of Scottish Archives in print! I've written a wee something about James VI's Scottish menagerie 🐆 🐪 👑

Looking forward to reading all the other fantastic contributions when my copy arrives!

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 20d

#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

Submit free via Submittable 👇
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New Writing Scotland Submission Manager

New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...

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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · 21d

It’s been a BUSY few weeks getting @churchheritage.bsky.social up and running but right now I’m up in the Cairngorms with the National Lottery Heritage Fund and I got to see a WILDCAT KITTEN at @highlandwpark.bsky.social. It’s so fierce and silly. I’m not a cat person but I do love this little one.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 26d

What a fantastic launch event yesterday for @churchheritage.bsky.social, our collaborative project with @socantscot.bsky.social supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund and Pilgrim Trust.

Chaired by @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social, we heard from 20 wonderful speakers followed by a panel discussion.

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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · 29d

Sounds like something from the book My Name is Red!

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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · Sep 6

🎟⛏️ The hottest ticket in Scotland this weekend is at the @govanstones.bsky.social!

The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · Sep 6

⛏️ Digging our 1,500-year-old churchyard!

THIS WEEKEND, University of Glasgow Archaeology and Clyde Archaeology excavate one of the most exciting early medieval sites in Europe, as part of this University of Glasgow field school!

📷 Thanks to Clyde Archaeology for the photographs

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Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · Aug 29

Retired Physicists Explain the Humanities to Me

by Rebecca Solnit

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · Aug 29

In the wild!! (i.e. on my mum's sofa)

A copy of Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance on a cream, white and blue fabric background/sofa.

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Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social · Aug 19

One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s

loststonesofasda.wordpress.com

Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire

A stone that looks like a prehistoric standing stone but inscribed with "Asda Price Promise Permanently [text obscured] prices [text obscured].

The stone is by a Drystone wall and vegetation grows around it

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Scowlin Munkeh @scowlingmonkey.bsky.social · Aug 18

Remember that dude with the Plasticine Action tshirt, with the pic of Morph on it, who got arrested for wearing it in London?

He has set up a site selling the tshirts with all proceeds going to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).

You know what to do! ⬇️

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A man with white hair and beard is wearing a ‘Plasticine Action’ tshirt which includes a picture of popular plasticine character, Morph. The text on the picture notes that the Met Police arrested him and then de-arrested him when he asked why plasticine was illegal.

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Foxdie @foxdie.bsky.social · Aug 18

I think it's really worth shouting out that the first 2 people to withdraw were black debut authors (Mae Diansangu followed by Jason Okundaye). They both had some of the most to lose by doing so before others did, and yet they did anyway. I'm grateful to all who withdrew, but to them especially.

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · Aug 18

Look at that solidarity gets the goods

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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · Aug 15

Guess it’s time to delete your account!

Screenshot of misogynist reply guy/bot’s first post ‘saying ‘Guess it’s time to start posting on Bluesky!’

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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · Aug 4

O HI!

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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · Aug 4

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My big smiley face in front of Rosslyn Chapel

My big face doing a weird ooof lip curl in front of Rosslyn Chapel.

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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · Jul 28

In the death registers of early modern Venice, marginalia often marks the cause of death: drawings of daggers for murders, for instance.

In 1696, Giovanni Battista Rinaldi was killed by a dog. This is the drawing by his entry.

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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · Jul 31

So kind!

Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · Jul 31

Oooh thanks Hope! We need to get a coffee or a glass of wine together soon! x

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 31

now google each of those six universities and “redundancies”

QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Jul 28

Exeter, Galway, Queen’s, Birmingham, Warwick, Kent, and UKRI’s KTN…

If anyone wondered where the same obsession with ‘modernising’ the crest, speaking in abstract nouns, and questionable colour schemes for these originated:

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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · Jul 31

Ah, thanks pal!

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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · Jul 31

Sooooo many!

A macro photo of an embroidery depicting the White Horse of Uffington. It’s a close up of the head of the horse and you can see hundreds of French knots making up the grass.

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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · Jul 31

Ahh, thanks so much!

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · Jul 30

I'll use this occasion of frustration to re-up my thread from a couple of months ago about how to hack your way to reasonaly hi-res images you can download from the BL's IIIF viewer: bsky.app/profile/cari...

The way you get to MSS from the landing page has changed, but the rest seems still to work.

Peter Kidd @mssprovenance.bsky.social · Jul 29

If you want to download an image from the British Library website for use in a publication with a print-run of 30,000, they want to charge you £100,000 (+£2,000 VAT).
That's £4 per copy. For a single image.
I can't tell if that's for real, or if their new brand website is already broken.

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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · Jul 30

Ah, I’d love to make more but this one took me months! Not sure people would pay £££ for one. It’s only little!

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