Black History at the Vassall Estate Special History Study (U.S. National Park Service)

Interested in the history of enslaved people, Black history, and George Washington?

Download this report, which is still on the NPS site (for now).

My research team spent 3 years collaborating with descendants of people enslaved at the Washington's Headquarters site and the wonderful NPS staff:

It would be remiss of me not to promote Changing Landscapes again after such a lovely post about it 😊.

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I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you!

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Electric lamp standard, early 20th century, on a cast iron octagonal column with horizontal bracket, and ornate spandrel with thistles etc, in front of a tree. Edinburgh Old Town.

Leith lamps are much more sinuous and elegant than Edinburgh's (here, Infirmary Street), which were supplied by McKenzie Brothers/ McKenzie and Moncur. Important indicators that differentiate location.

North British Railway Company Memorial type: Board / Plaque / Tablet

The #WarMemorial at Waverley Station is dedicated to 775 employees of the North British Railway Co who were killed in 1914-1919, having joined up in 1914 (one in 16). It does not memorialise all those who passed through the station on the way to war. www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/it...

What a dreadful year it has been.

The Open Access is now available for "Historical Authenticity"
Many thanks to the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de for the support!👏👇
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This is Pammukele in Turkey, where you can swim in the limestone terracing.

Especially in Pammukele in Turkey. Limestone stalactites and pools for swimmers. Near Aphrodisias, neither of which places had any adverse effect on us.

The bridge at Eglinton in Ayrshire, scene of the tournament, has similar ribs, despite some alterations in concrete, making me think the two bridges are close in date and from the same foundry.

First Scottish Stolperstein installed in Edinburgh YouTube video by TheEdinburghReporter

A short service of dedication was held in Stockbridge today where the first Scottish Stolperstein was installed at Saint Stephens church in memory of Jane Haining who died at Auschwitz youtu.be/o1JSO9Z55xk?...

I am trying not to laugh...

Thank you. I wonder whether the ashes were assumed to have first been in an ashpit, and therefore that urine was an ingredient just as it is for waulking/ fulling wool.

Wrought iron had John Ruskin's approval due to the handwork (and mechanical help) involved. Cast iron did not but is here in the columns, not capitals, at Oxford Museum. #FerrousFriday

Treated with what?

We haven't done an #IronWorkThursday post for a while, so here's one of the wrought iron gates leading into the kirkyard around our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, Corstorphine Old Parish Church, Edinburgh.

The arms are those of the Forrester family, founders of this ancient church, who also lie within.

We were all promoting 20-minute neighbourhoods as good UK mixed-use planning until the protests started. So let's combine them together, ratcheted up into 150-minute gridlocked cities.

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Meet You at the Hippos Mark Bonnar returns to the Scottish new towns in which he grew up to explore the street sculpture made by artists such as his dad.

Delightful doc with Mark Bonnar exploring Scottish new town public art, including the hippos of Glenrothes made by his artist dad Stan. New towns, public art, Mark Bonnar? It’s ✅✅✅ from me

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‘Greek’ Thomson’s Walmer Crescent, Curving in Straight Lines A talk by Dominic d'Angelo on Thomson's Walmer Crescent

📆 Talk this Thur 23rd Oct 6.30pm at @glasgowheritage.bsky.social on 'Greek' Thomson's Walmer Crescent, a dramatically curved tenement block off Paisley Rd West at Cessnock in #Glasgow southside ~ Dominic d’Angelo of The Alexander Thomson Society shares its story www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/greek-thom...

Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine, Ayrshire, of interest to IDF? Digital models of boatyard for conservation and research. “The Museum has no control over how the data is subsequently accessed, downloaded, or used."

I can confirm that Watson's wick works.

Clark Street Bridge, 1929 double bascule bridge, pony trusses apparently. The predecessors had some mishaps, the river was reversed and regularly turns green to celebrate Irish migrants. www.chicagoloopbridges.com/bridges12/MS...

#doorsopenday this weekend in Edinburgh, East Lothian, Dundee, Orkney and Kinneil House. Along with Open House, Heritage Open Days, all thanks to #JEP #EHD European Heritage Days which tend to be forgotten about (but Northern Ireland always gives credit) www.doorsopendays.org.uk/about/europe...

If you're exploring #DoorsOpenDay this weekend, pop by The Paper Factory in Edinburgh - we've got a huge visual art showcase in an abandoned industrial site! 🏭🚪

We're open 11am - 4pm today and tomorrow
1 Turnhouse Road EH12 8NP
FREE entry

Details: hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-s...

Edinburgh Doors Open Day listings are out! September 28 & 29.
#doorsOpenDay #edinburgh #history #buildings
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Buses will be the big attraction on Doors Open Day Lothian’s Doors Open Day takes place on Saturday 27 September 2025, and for the second year in a row it will be held at the company’s Marine depot at 18 Seafield Road East, EH15 1EB. Running from 11.0...

Buses will be the big attraction on Doors Open Day theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2025/09/buse... via @EdinReporter

The next toast was "The Plough, the Loom, and the Sail, and may the Railway contribute to their prosperity," with three times three; after which the chairman gave "George Stephenson, Esq., the Company's surveyor," drank also with three times three and loud plaudits.-- (Mr. Stephenson, who had been present most of the evening, had quitted the room before his health was drank.)

From a newspaper account of the extremely bibulous dinner that followed the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 27 September 1825.

I like the image of George Stephenson quietly slipping out before too much fuss was made.

Starting to get busy for day two of the S&DR anniversary weekend. The Skerne Bridge in Darlington along with Locomotion No1 are the stars today. #Railway200