Lots of Modern Apprenticeships open for applications at Historic Environment Scotland:
✅ Bricklaying
✅Plastering
✅Joinery
✅and Stonemasonry
Fixed-term.
Full-time.
Locations: various
Deadline for applications: 05/07/2025
Apply here: www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/wor...
Still 2 weeks to apply for the position of Senior Programme & Communications Manager (mat leave cover) as part of the DRI team based @ria.ie!
Great opportunity to contribute to the smooth functioning of a #DigitalCulturalHeritage organisation.
Apply by 21 May www.ria.ie/about/career...
Historic Environment Scotland are running their Skills Survey. If you're an employer, sole trader, or organisation working in/with the heritage sector, tell us your skills/training needs and gaps to help monitor the skills health of the sector: haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/development-...
Job opportunity with @nationalgalleries.bsky.social:
🌐Social Media Officer
📅Full time (35 hrs)
💲£29,888 - £32,602
🏠Hybrid/flexible working
⏱️Deadline: Monday, 12 May 2025
Learn more: ngs.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
Did anybody else catch this @theguardian.com article on censorship in libraries?
'in an Index on Censorship survey last year, 28 of 53 librarians polled reported that they had been asked to remove books from library shelves, many of which were LGBTQ+ titles'
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a....
There are now only eight weeks until Canmore is switched off. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, while you still can.
The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
The janitor's house of Charles Rennie MacKintosh's Scotland Street School on the Southside of Glasgow. Built between 1903 and 1907, I love the way the rooflines of the gables sweep down and integrate into the boundary wall.
#glasgow #architecture #charlesrenniemackintosh #architecturephotography
Job opportunity with The Unicorn Preservation Society based in Dundee. FT and PT roles. Fixed-term contracts. Deadline for applications: 22nd April 2025.
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-un...
In this Beyond The Knife podcast episode, @surgeonshall.bsky.social Collections Coordinator Danielle Dray discusses a brief history of medical illustration, its changing purpose, and the women who led the way in professionalising medical art.
Listen here: https://bit.ly/3XNeEhP
Hugely exciting doctoral studentship opportunity supervised by the IHR's @justincolson.bsky.social, @adamchapman.bsky.social, and @charlesxhistory.bsky.social, Alexandra Stevenson of Historic Royal Palaces. Applications close 26th May 2025.
Colour potcard with the title in red at the top left: 'Calderhead Church and School, Shotts'. Shows the stone-built Calderhead School and Church on high ground with a narrow reservoir in excavated ground in the foreground.
A detail from the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map from the 1890s showing the same area as the postcard. Calderhead is clearly marked on the left and two reservoirs are coloured in blue. Map courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.
Calderhead Church & School #Shotts from a picture postcard posted in 1909
In the foreground is one of the reservoirs for the nearby Shotts Iron Works, showing how the community lived in a landscape shaped by industry www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...
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Love Glasgow’s historic buildings? 🏛️ Join GCHT as a Built Heritage Officer!
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Join GCHT as our Office Administrator and help keep the team running smoothly! 🗂️🏛️
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Lots of job opportunities at Glasgow Life, advertised over at their LinkedIn page. Includes:
🖌️Senior Conservator
📅Event Manager (Industry and Activation)
📈Box Office Sales Admin
🏛️Gallery Assistant
www.linkedin.com/posts/glasgo...
Permanent part time role with @westminsterabbey.bsky.social as Conservation Housekeeper. Part time (16 hours), permanent contract. Deadline: 11 April 2025:
careers.westminster-abbey.org/vacancies/97...
Deadline tomorrow (1st April). Job opportunity with @nationalgalleries.bsky.social as a Digital Content Producer. Part time (21 hours, 3 days pw). Fixed term (to Oct 2026).
ngs.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
Life is pretty grim right now. Here's my #starterpack of writers, historians and institutes sharing quirky medical and science content that might serve as a welcome distraction. Make your corner of the world weird and wonderful. Never stop learning.
go.bsky.app/3DuVT6Z
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social Given the popularity of your STEM writers' starter pack, maybe you can repost this from your pals @sshmedicine.bsky.social ?
@womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social Free pdf can be downloaded below. This is not explicitly a book about women's history but a quick flip through shows that the author has highlighted women wherever possible.
bsky.app/profile/aman...
This is really shocking: and true. I discovered I'd just been upgraded without consent to an AI-enshittified package that was about £30 a year more expensive. Strongly recommend anyone who has an Office 365 follow the below advice to get rid of it
Did someone say Amazon is going to stop selling books published by Bloomsbury? Well, Osprey is part of Bloomsbury...
Fantastic to see the UK’s first drug consumption room finally open its doors in Glasgow. Congratulations to all those who made this happen. As the experience from more than 200 drug consumption rooms around the world shows, The Thistle will save many lives: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I note that the '3 energetic sisters' all gave evidence to this important report.
electrifyingwomen.org/the-three-en...
@graemegooday.bsky.social
Still not applied for one of our @ihrlibrary.bsky.social graduate trainee posts? One of our current trainees has written the blog post about her first term with us. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/01/firs...
Love this series. Two personal faves: Claire Hilton 'Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the FWW'; and Steven Taylor and Alice Brumby (eds) 'Healthy Minds in the 20th Century'
We know, summer is a long way away. But we can't think of anything other than our upcoming BSHS conference. So, we wanted to share our excitement and remind you to submit your abstract for the 2025 BSHS conference in Cambridge, July 8-10 until Jan 10! https://buff.ly/3YWqCp6
News | The @heritagefunduk.bsky.social's Heritage Innovation Fund has supported 13 projects to explore and test ideas in response to subjects like ‘eco-anxiety’ and workforce wellbeing
museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...
Looking for a PhD which focusses on improving #GlobalHealth?
These training studentships funded by MRC combines expertise from LSHTM & St George's, University of London to offer specialist research projects, skills & training. #PublicHealth
Learn more and apply👉 mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/projects/?ut...
