Last chance to apply to join our Anti-racism and Decolonisation Steering Group ⏰
We're recruiting for two new members to join this steering group, which meets to consider and advocate for how to take anti-racism and decolonisation forward in the UK museum sector.
Apply by 11.59pm tomorrow 👇
Here's the link to the #1926Census of #Ireland which just went live, in case anyone is looking for it. Happy searching! nationalarchives.ie/collections/...
#IrishFamilyHistory #IrishGenealogy
Adventures in Shetland! So lucky to be part of this group
Midden of bronze age shell rubbish
The midden of rubbish just outside the front door at Jarlshof
Group of students at Jarlshof in Shetland
Everyone crowded into the bronze age smiddy
Enroute to Shetland for @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social's field trip.
Can I just say how much I love this booklet! Having a read of it now. So informative 💡
Lots to consider when working with archaeological human remains from across Scotland. I feel really privileged to be supporting this work (and will be learning lots along the way).
Image on a work ID for Hannah Wickes for the National Museums of Scotland
First day volunteering with @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social! I'm helping Curator of Osteoarchaeology, Dr Jess Thompson with her work to help make collections more accessible to research.
Important if unnerving article finding that 10s of 1000s of archaeological human remains excavated in Britain over the last c.150 years are unaccounted for. Shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat current curators - this is an inherited problem caused by a complexity of historic systematic issues.
Margaret Medcalf ensured that some of Western Australia's most important documents were preserved. #archives #GLAMS
Just started the next batch of episodes... will she convert Mr Ryder to book reading and marry him instead?
"We are living through a period in which the scaffolding underpinning entire bodies of knowledge is no longer secure..."
Brilliant article on how environmental science needs to pivot it's research tactics and learn from humanities - where money has been scare for a long time.
It is giving strongly competitive Easter hat parade energy.
Photo of the interior of the LARCH Leith Wark church and three authors on a panel.
"These were just women like me and you..." - @annacaig.bsky.social
Talking witchcraft trials and the women persecuted in Scotland. Ironically Topping's event is in a kirk.
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Pebbled beach in Fife
And this was the beach I found it on... decided to see what was there after being inspired by the prehistoric footprint rescue mission led by @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social. It's no mud trapped footprint, but lovely all the same.
Worked flint being held up, in the background a beach and the forth
Flint being held in the palm of a woman's hand
First submission to Scotland's Treasure Trove. A beautiful little flint I found washed up on a beach in Charlestown, Fife.
Photo of three phones showing different apps for location.
How to find exactly where your prehistoric rock art is located.
Booklet saying prehistoric rock art of Scotland
Hello Saturday!
Screenshot of Salisbury Journal news story with quote 'The biggest danger is cars, as she has no road awareness'. Headline is Escaped Marwell Zoo capybara Samba sightings as far as Stonehenge
Things are afoot #StonehengeEverything
Reason #47 to live in a Scottish village...
The excellent Niel Gow Festival is on again celebrating the music of a man born in 1727 in Dunkeld. We might currently have more fiddlers per head of population then anywhere in Scotland rn 🎻
Panel discussion (free and online) hosted by the Royal Historical Society 12:30 pm Thursday 26 March on 'Historical Context: Modern Iran', featuring Professor Maziyar Ghiabi, Dr Louise Kettle and Dr Jonathan Franzen. #Skystorians
Hang on... it was worn like a chastity belt! More here from the researchers www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Replica of the medical girdle scroll
Replica of the medical girdle scroll
Replica of the medical girdle scroll showing imagery of weapons at Christ's death
Picture of original medieval birthing scroll
... a medieval birthing scroll or girdle that women could tie around their middle containing prayers. It's been tested for different types of proteins by @drsarahliddyment and contains signs of medicinal foods and birthing fluids. FASCINATING.
This is the replica I'm casually handling.
Medieval painting of a woman giving birth surrounded by other women
Ethiopian birthing scroll with pictures of the evil eye
Ethiopian birthing scroll
Modern artwork of a hospital gown embroidered with imagery from the ivf process
A small but excellent exhibition looking at the history of birth @wellcomecollection.bsky.social. The best bit was...
On this day in 1815, computer programmer Ada Lovelace was born in England. She believed computers might compose pieces of music but also that the "Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform."
You know what ys the coolest thinge? Libraryes.
Ceramic face on a shard of 14th century pottery.
Just an afternoon at the local archive. This character is from Inverness and is over 600 years old.
I was there on the weekend! Such a friendly face 😏
