2 people with Adana printing press & other printing equipment
Marking #WorldHeritageDay at #Glasgow's Mitchell Library with a #letterpress #printing workshop run by Letter space/Glasgow Press
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Photo of the 1883 second Empire Mansion, Glanmore House taken by Jeffrey Kerplunking.
#WorldHeritageDay & #BookWormSat: Glanmore National Historic Site—ornate, historic, and quietly haunted. Whispers of Harriet Phillips, unseen footsteps, and shadowy figures keep this Belleville landmark steeped in folklore.
Link to my #GlanmoreHouse blog niftybuckles.wordpress.com/2022/10/13/g...
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Also it’s #WorldHeritageDay!
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Photo by John Sylvester
The image is a promotional photograph for Green Gables Heritage Place, a Parks Canada site in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, which inspired Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic novel Anne of Green Gables.
For #WorldHeritageDay & #BookWormSat: Green Gables Heritage Place, PEI—where Anne of Green Gables first bloomed and Avonlea still feels just around the bend. I’ve returned time and again; the charm never fades.
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It’s #WorldHeritageDay.
A celebration of the worlds’s cultural heritage.
Dean Village #Edinburgh -
Part of the city’s Old & New Towns #UNESCO site.
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Photo of 18th century, Fort Luisbourg located in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Canada. Photo credit Parks Canada.
#BookWormSat #WorldHeritageDay
Fortress of Louisbourg, Cape Breton NS
18th-century French fortress (reconstructed); site of sieges in Anglo-French wars; local ghost folklore (White Lady on ramparts, sorrowful French soldier). Visited every summer as a child; my dad, a #WW2 Navy Veteran, loved it!
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Some slock they must hiv hin on them,
haevan man-shorn rock fae quarry tae dig,
their own hand’s deueen hewn intae the face o it…
—Ingrid Leonard, “Maeshowe – I”
from SOUND OF AN ICEBERG: New Writing Scotland 37 (ASL, 2019)
#BookWormSat #WorldHeritageDay #poem #poetry
asls.org.uk/publications...
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UNESCO’s dirty secret: World Heritage for tourists – a nightmare for the Maasai. Act Now
Today UNESCO celebrates ‘World Heritage Day’ to raise awareness about the diversity of cultural heritage, monuments and landscapes. - Map of all World Heritage Sites worldwide. - But for the Maasai, there is nothing to celebrate.
Thousands of Maasai live in one of these ‘World Heritage Sites’: The Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Their land was turned into a conservation area back in 1959 and it got awarded with UNESCO’s World Heritage status in 1979. But Maasai families have lived there since time immemorial.
Now Tanzanian authorities are determined to evict the Maasai from their lands – in the name of conservation. Arbitrary arrests, violence, torture and suspended health services are their reality. But do you know who has protected these lands for generations? The Maasai.
Today is #WorldHeritageDay.
But for the Maasai, there is nothing to celebrate. Act now! svlint.org/MaasaiB
One of the world’s most famous UNESCO World Heritage Sites –the Ngorongoro Conservation Area– is being used to justify the eviction of the very people who've protected it for generations.
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“…the great globe itself...”
Shakespeare, THE TEMPEST, 4.1 @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social #ShakespearesGlobe
#BookWormSat
#WorldHeritageDay
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The last native St Kildan, Rachel Johnson, died in 2016. She had been born on the main island of Hirta in July 1922, & was eight years old when she & her family were evacuated.
#WorldHeritageDay
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...
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The last residents of St Kilda were evacuated by their own request in 1930, bringing to an end about 4000 years of human occupation. It is one of the few World Heritage Sites to hold mixed status for its cultural & natural qualities.
#WorldHeritageDay
www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-s...
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ST KILDA CROSSING by Lynn Valentine I pulled all my mother’s expectations with me, like a child’s kite, giddy with stir of spring. Because she was cancer-cracked I turned tourist by proxy, crouched into cleits looking for leavings of last century. I photographed fawn smallness of Soays felt the crash of wind-whipped stacs, my pockets salt-filled. I leant on those islands as my mother leant on me, filled my lungs with their breeze and leaping green language of sea. I tried to hold my breath for days, took it back to my mother, exhaled island air on her weakened frame – whispered broken stories of birds and rain.
I pulled all my mother’s expectations
with me, like a child’s kite, giddy with stir
of spring…
—Lynn Valentine, “St Kilda Crossing”
from DON’T. EVEN. ASK. TOO. HOT. New Writing Scotland 42 (ASL, 2024)
#BookWormSat #WorldHeritageDay #poem #poetry
asls.org.uk/publications...
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Composite image of trench sections and spoil heaps from excavation at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Arslantepe, south-eastern Türkiye.
This #WorldHeritageDay, learn new ways to help conserve world heritage sites in Antiquity.
Researchers have developed a cost-efficient method to measure surface erosion vulnerability, informing conservation strategies for individual sites.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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The Ring of Brodgar, three of the megaliths with snowy hills in the background
Structure 27 under excavation at the Ness of Brodgar... not officially within the confines of the World Heritage site as it wasn't discovered when the site was designated! But actually slap bang in the middle of the WHS site!
Skara Brae, the Neolithic village setting grass covered sand dunes next to the sea.
Barnhouse Neolithic village, situated between Maeshowe, the Ness of Brogar and the Stones of Stenness on the back of Harray Loch
#WorldHeritageDay
I have had the joy and privilege of working and excavating at the Heart of #Neolithic #Orkney #WHS since 2016.
That's it... just me bragging, really 😉
📸 mine
#Archaeology #Heritage
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Today marks International Day for Monuments and Sites! #WorldHeritageDay, we celebrate the enduring value of cultural heritage. Working to promote awareness of cultural heritage and to highlight the efforts required to protect and conserve vulnerable sites and monuments.
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Today is Apr 18:
#RecordStoreDay
#WorldHeritageDay
#TransgenderHIVTestingDay
#AmateurRadioDay
#VelociraptorAwarenessDay
#WorldCircusDay
#ExerciseDay
#JugglersDay
#WorldArtisanDay
#LinemanAppreciationDay
#ColumnistsDay
#FinancialAdvisorDay
#FreeEntranceDay
#FoodTravelDay
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National Lineman Appreciation Day 🇺🇸, National Paul Revere Day 🇺🇸, Record Store Day 🇬🇧 #worldcircusday #worldheritageday #internationaldayformonumentsandsites #internationaljugglersday #worldamateurradioday #nationaljuniorrangerday #nationalrecordstoreday #nationalanimalcrackersday
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On #WorldHeritageDay, the spotlight turns to the European Heritage Label.
Since 2011, 80 locations across Europe have been recognised under the Label.
On 22 April, 13 newly selected sites will be celebrated at the EHL award ceremony.
Discover them 👉 link.europa.eu/B3YRDm
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“The medieval Old Town retains its distinctive pattern of narrow passageways known as closes and wynds. The New Town, designed in 1767, is the largest and best-preserved example of Georgian town planning in the UK”
#WorldHeritageDay #Edinburgh
www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-s...
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Midnight Hugh MacDiarmid Glasgow is null, Its suburbs shadows And the Clyde a cloud. Dundee is dust And Aberdeen a shell. But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream, Fitful and dark, Unseizable in Leith And wildered by the Forth, But irresistibly at last Cleaving to sombre heights Of passionate imagining Till stonily, From soaring battlements, Earth eyes Eternity.
But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,
Fitful and dark,
Unseizable in Leith
And wildered by the Forth…
—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
published in The Complete Poems (1978)
#BookWormSat #WorldHeritageDay #poem #poetry #Edinburgh
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A painting of Barbara Fairweather by Phoebe Barrow. An elderly Barbara sits on a chair looking towards the window in a bright, cosy room with a ginger cat on her lap.
On #WorldHeritageDay we’re celebrating women who help preserve Scotland’s heritage.
Barbara Fairweather understood heritage is all around us and in our communities. With friends, she founded the Glencoe Folk Museum to collect and share their stories
womenshistoryscotland.org/2024/06/13/r...
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SAUDI ARABIA – Hegra Archaeological Site https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1293
ALGERIA – Timgad https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/194
TURKEY -Nemrut Dağ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/448
IRAN – Persepolis https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/114
On #WorldHeritageDay, we celebrate the enduring value of cultural heritage. 🌍🏛️ I have been fortunate to visit 182 UNESCO World Heritage Sites across 38 countries.
👉 followinghadrian.com/my-archaeolo...
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For #WorldHeritageDay why not explore this wonderful site in person or with this great virtual 🧵 from @thexclaim6.bsky.social 🙂
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You know sometimes he walks four hours together
Here in the lobby.
Polonius, Shakespeare, HAMLET, 2.2
#BookWormSat
#Helsingør #Elsinore #WorldHeritageDay
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Happy #WorldHeritageDay! Name of ancient parish of Kinneil meant 'Head of the Wall' - Eastern gateway to #AntonineWall
#WHS : discover more on a tour with #HistoricScotland inside Kinneil House today or most Saturdays till September [📷 @visit-scotland.bsky.social / Kenny Lam] #WHUK #UNESCO
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✉️ ¿Apoyarás a los masáis? Actúa → svlint.org/MasaisUNESCO-X
#MaasaiShallNotDie #WorldHeritageDay
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For #WorldHeritageDay a moody and misty view of the Anglo-Norman castle at Dunhill, Co. Waterford...
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Today is #WorldHeritageDay which means that everyone's posts will be full of castles, historic houses, paintings, ceramics and so on.
SO we'd just like to remind you that this is heritage as well!
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I have a deep affection for anything that has survived weather, politics, and human nonsense with its manners still intact.
#UNESCO #WorldHeritageDay #Monuments #SandalSage #Patch #Ash #FortJesus #Mombasa #HistoricalSite
open.substack.com/pub/fauxfiru...
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