Titus the Dog
@tituswrites.bsky.social
Essex poet in exile. Wild South West Scotland
Me, tea and biscuits! This Sunday, 2pm, Robert Burns Centre
March 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Me, tea and biscuits! This Sunday, 2pm, Robert Burns Centre
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November 28, 1872, Scottish science writer and polymath Mary Somerville died #OTD. Her “Physical Geography” (1848) was the first textbook on the topic in English and her most popular work 🌐
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November 29, 2024 at 6:03 PM
November 28, 1872, Scottish science writer and polymath Mary Somerville died #OTD. Her “Physical Geography” (1848) was the first textbook on the topic in English and her most popular work 🌐
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paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/m...
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Last Day of #Museum30 - Why Museums?
When people stop you in the street to tell you how much their children have been talking about their recent visit, or the waiter in a cafe tells you how much they enjoyed last night's talk, or Ukrainian families tell you've made them feel part of the community...
When people stop you in the street to tell you how much their children have been talking about their recent visit, or the waiter in a cafe tells you how much they enjoyed last night's talk, or Ukrainian families tell you've made them feel part of the community...
November 30, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Last Day of #Museum30 - Why Museums?
When people stop you in the street to tell you how much their children have been talking about their recent visit, or the waiter in a cafe tells you how much they enjoyed last night's talk, or Ukrainian families tell you've made them feel part of the community...
When people stop you in the street to tell you how much their children have been talking about their recent visit, or the waiter in a cafe tells you how much they enjoyed last night's talk, or Ukrainian families tell you've made them feel part of the community...
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doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century
November 22, 2024 at 10:32 PM
doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century
Due to foreseen circumstances, in this case the weather, we have had to postpone Sunday's Book Week Scotland event with JoAnne McKay
We hope to reschedule in the not too distant future and apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.
We hope to reschedule in the not too distant future and apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.
November 22, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Due to foreseen circumstances, in this case the weather, we have had to postpone Sunday's Book Week Scotland event with JoAnne McKay
We hope to reschedule in the not too distant future and apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.
We hope to reschedule in the not too distant future and apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Wicked Problems and Reasons for Hope. Robert Burns Centre, Dumfries on Sunday, 24 November, 2pm. I will be there in person. Jane Goodall will not
November 16, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Wicked Problems and Reasons for Hope. Robert Burns Centre, Dumfries on Sunday, 24 November, 2pm. I will be there in person. Jane Goodall will not
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Off-road vehicles racing through Chile's Atacama Desert have destroyed ancient geoglyphs over decades of competitions. Authorities have been unable to stop them. The images of the damage are striking.
My investigation for @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/s...
My investigation for @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/s...
Desert Racers Demolish Art Carved by Ancient People in Chile
Preservationists say governments at all levels have failed to prevent authorized and illegal off-road racers from driving through giant figures of animals, humans and objects.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Off-road vehicles racing through Chile's Atacama Desert have destroyed ancient geoglyphs over decades of competitions. Authorities have been unable to stop them. The images of the damage are striking.
My investigation for @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/s...
My investigation for @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/s...
@dgplacenames.bsky.social Are you in on this? Via Twitter
Ragna’s Islands is a research project built around a new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga Saga) by @JudithJesch for publication in 2025. In the build up to publication we are researching the place-names of Orkney.
Ragna’s Islands is a research project built around a new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga Saga) by @JudithJesch for publication in 2025. In the build up to publication we are researching the place-names of Orkney.
February 26, 2024 at 9:57 PM
@dgplacenames.bsky.social Are you in on this? Via Twitter
Ragna’s Islands is a research project built around a new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga Saga) by @JudithJesch for publication in 2025. In the build up to publication we are researching the place-names of Orkney.
Ragna’s Islands is a research project built around a new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga Saga) by @JudithJesch for publication in 2025. In the build up to publication we are researching the place-names of Orkney.
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🌲1️⃣1️⃣🎁 CAUL ‘a dam or weir to divert water in a river’
The most well-known caul in D&G is at the Sands in Dumfries, but you find can caul(d)s marked on the map across Dumfriesshire. For example, the second picture (from an 1821 estate map) shows a cauld on the Mein Water, just below Birrens Roman >>>
The most well-known caul in D&G is at the Sands in Dumfries, but you find can caul(d)s marked on the map across Dumfriesshire. For example, the second picture (from an 1821 estate map) shows a cauld on the Mein Water, just below Birrens Roman >>>
December 11, 2023 at 3:29 PM
🌲1️⃣1️⃣🎁 CAUL ‘a dam or weir to divert water in a river’
The most well-known caul in D&G is at the Sands in Dumfries, but you find can caul(d)s marked on the map across Dumfriesshire. For example, the second picture (from an 1821 estate map) shows a cauld on the Mein Water, just below Birrens Roman >>>
The most well-known caul in D&G is at the Sands in Dumfries, but you find can caul(d)s marked on the map across Dumfriesshire. For example, the second picture (from an 1821 estate map) shows a cauld on the Mein Water, just below Birrens Roman >>>
Day 30 of #Museum30
Why museums?
Because they are the holders of skeleton keys that unlock our pasts.
Bronze Age cist burial from Mainsriddle: a cloak fastening ring made from a human backbone was found beside this man, and sherds from a beaker at his feet
Why museums?
Because they are the holders of skeleton keys that unlock our pasts.
Bronze Age cist burial from Mainsriddle: a cloak fastening ring made from a human backbone was found beside this man, and sherds from a beaker at his feet
December 1, 2023 at 12:55 AM
Day 30 of #Museum30
Why museums?
Because they are the holders of skeleton keys that unlock our pasts.
Bronze Age cist burial from Mainsriddle: a cloak fastening ring made from a human backbone was found beside this man, and sherds from a beaker at his feet
Why museums?
Because they are the holders of skeleton keys that unlock our pasts.
Bronze Age cist burial from Mainsriddle: a cloak fastening ring made from a human backbone was found beside this man, and sherds from a beaker at his feet
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Just a truly spectacular pair of leopard-print breeches for your Friday night.
Even the dog is bemused (c1770) #18c
Even the dog is bemused (c1770) #18c
November 24, 2023 at 8:34 PM
Just a truly spectacular pair of leopard-print breeches for your Friday night.
Even the dog is bemused (c1770) #18c
Even the dog is bemused (c1770) #18c
Day 22 of #Museum30 Time
A fleeting moment frozen for 225 million years - the Permian footprints of Chelichnus duncani. In the late 1820s the Rev Henry Duncan (of Savings Bank fame) became interested in the fossil footprints that were being found on slabs of sandstone from local quarries.
A fleeting moment frozen for 225 million years - the Permian footprints of Chelichnus duncani. In the late 1820s the Rev Henry Duncan (of Savings Bank fame) became interested in the fossil footprints that were being found on slabs of sandstone from local quarries.
November 22, 2023 at 8:57 PM
Day 22 of #Museum30 Time
A fleeting moment frozen for 225 million years - the Permian footprints of Chelichnus duncani. In the late 1820s the Rev Henry Duncan (of Savings Bank fame) became interested in the fossil footprints that were being found on slabs of sandstone from local quarries.
A fleeting moment frozen for 225 million years - the Permian footprints of Chelichnus duncani. In the late 1820s the Rev Henry Duncan (of Savings Bank fame) became interested in the fossil footprints that were being found on slabs of sandstone from local quarries.
Day 20 of #Museum30
Pride
Framed memorial plaques commemorating brothers Robert and James Hume Duncan of the 7th Cameron Highlanders, who were both killed in action during the First World War; button from the uniform of the Caledonian Railway Company; a candlesnuffer.
Pride
Framed memorial plaques commemorating brothers Robert and James Hume Duncan of the 7th Cameron Highlanders, who were both killed in action during the First World War; button from the uniform of the Caledonian Railway Company; a candlesnuffer.
November 20, 2023 at 10:01 PM
Day 20 of #Museum30
Pride
Framed memorial plaques commemorating brothers Robert and James Hume Duncan of the 7th Cameron Highlanders, who were both killed in action during the First World War; button from the uniform of the Caledonian Railway Company; a candlesnuffer.
Pride
Framed memorial plaques commemorating brothers Robert and James Hume Duncan of the 7th Cameron Highlanders, who were both killed in action during the First World War; button from the uniform of the Caledonian Railway Company; a candlesnuffer.
November 18, 2023 at 11:27 PM
Day 17 of #Museum30
Hands
Painted ones. A money box in the form of a mantlepiece clock. On the front there is a printed clock face featuring Roman numerals. W & A Smith of Mauchline, Ayrshire developed the manufacture of transfer printed treen, or wooden ware. Very popular as gifts and souvenirs!
Hands
Painted ones. A money box in the form of a mantlepiece clock. On the front there is a printed clock face featuring Roman numerals. W & A Smith of Mauchline, Ayrshire developed the manufacture of transfer printed treen, or wooden ware. Very popular as gifts and souvenirs!
November 18, 2023 at 8:14 PM
Day 17 of #Museum30
Hands
Painted ones. A money box in the form of a mantlepiece clock. On the front there is a printed clock face featuring Roman numerals. W & A Smith of Mauchline, Ayrshire developed the manufacture of transfer printed treen, or wooden ware. Very popular as gifts and souvenirs!
Hands
Painted ones. A money box in the form of a mantlepiece clock. On the front there is a printed clock face featuring Roman numerals. W & A Smith of Mauchline, Ayrshire developed the manufacture of transfer printed treen, or wooden ware. Very popular as gifts and souvenirs!
Day 16 of #Museum30
Technology
The loom is one of the oldest technologies still in use. Here's my favourite ever woven thing - the Crawick Mill Carpet Company's "Imperial" grade carpeting; famed for its durability and exported worldwide from a hamlet near Sanquhar. Woven in 27" strips. 19th c.
Technology
The loom is one of the oldest technologies still in use. Here's my favourite ever woven thing - the Crawick Mill Carpet Company's "Imperial" grade carpeting; famed for its durability and exported worldwide from a hamlet near Sanquhar. Woven in 27" strips. 19th c.
November 16, 2023 at 10:44 PM
Day 16 of #Museum30
Technology
The loom is one of the oldest technologies still in use. Here's my favourite ever woven thing - the Crawick Mill Carpet Company's "Imperial" grade carpeting; famed for its durability and exported worldwide from a hamlet near Sanquhar. Woven in 27" strips. 19th c.
Technology
The loom is one of the oldest technologies still in use. Here's my favourite ever woven thing - the Crawick Mill Carpet Company's "Imperial" grade carpeting; famed for its durability and exported worldwide from a hamlet near Sanquhar. Woven in 27" strips. 19th c.
Work in progress…
November 16, 2023 at 9:29 AM
Work in progress…
Day 15 of Museum30
Frame
Handframed stocking from J A Robertson & Sons, founded in 1773. In 1851 the firm exhibited a sample of hand framed hosiery at the Great Exhibition in London. A similar example was shown at the Festival of Britain exhibition a century later, in 1951. As worn by Queen Mary
Frame
Handframed stocking from J A Robertson & Sons, founded in 1773. In 1851 the firm exhibited a sample of hand framed hosiery at the Great Exhibition in London. A similar example was shown at the Festival of Britain exhibition a century later, in 1951. As worn by Queen Mary
November 15, 2023 at 11:16 PM
Day 15 of Museum30
Frame
Handframed stocking from J A Robertson & Sons, founded in 1773. In 1851 the firm exhibited a sample of hand framed hosiery at the Great Exhibition in London. A similar example was shown at the Festival of Britain exhibition a century later, in 1951. As worn by Queen Mary
Frame
Handframed stocking from J A Robertson & Sons, founded in 1773. In 1851 the firm exhibited a sample of hand framed hosiery at the Great Exhibition in London. A similar example was shown at the Festival of Britain exhibition a century later, in 1951. As worn by Queen Mary