eydmann
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Scholar, collector, maker & curator of things vernacular, mainly Scottish and Irish. GSA, OU, PhD, Hon. Fellow, University of Edinburgh ~
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Re-Tracing the Dance-Steps of the Hugboon: The Nordic Background of Orkney Folk Legends
5 Dec, online – free
In this seminar, Prof Terry Gunnell will explore the Nordic connections of Orkney legends & folklore
#folklore #Orkney
llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...
5 Dec, online – free
In this seminar, Prof Terry Gunnell will explore the Nordic connections of Orkney legends & folklore
#folklore #Orkney
llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...
Celtic and Scottish Studies Seminar Series: Terry Gunnell | Celtic & Scottish Studies | Literatures Languages and Culture
An online seminar by Professor Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland) titled 'Re-Tracing the Dance-Steps of the Hugboon: The Nordic Background of Orkney Folk Legends'.
llc.ed.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Re-Tracing the Dance-Steps of the Hugboon: The Nordic Background of Orkney Folk Legends
5 Dec, online – free
In this seminar, Prof Terry Gunnell will explore the Nordic connections of Orkney legends & folklore
#folklore #Orkney
llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...
5 Dec, online – free
In this seminar, Prof Terry Gunnell will explore the Nordic connections of Orkney legends & folklore
#folklore #Orkney
llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...
Birmingham historic building fears blamed on staff shortages - BBC News share.google/2FmiEmEQyPvF...
Birmingham historic building fears blamed on staff shortages
The Victorian Society writes to Birmingham council's boss over a lack of conservation staff.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Birmingham historic building fears blamed on staff shortages - BBC News share.google/2FmiEmEQyPvF...
Take care with hand coloured photographs and postcards - many in Scotland are greatly misleading.
November 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Take care with hand coloured photographs and postcards - many in Scotland are greatly misleading.
Any thoughts on the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza as a model for Linlithgow Palace as originally built (or vice versa) and as an example of what it could be?
October 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Any thoughts on the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza as a model for Linlithgow Palace as originally built (or vice versa) and as an example of what it could be?
Passing time in Paul Cezanne's Studio.
October 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Passing time in Paul Cezanne's Studio.
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A fantastic find this week at Skaill Farm on Rousay, Orkney a red sandstone head with some similarity to carvings at St. Magnus cathedral and built into the old parish church of St. Mary.
🏺via @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social
🏺via @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social
Dig diary - spectacular carved head found in week two at Skaill farm - Archaeology Orkney
An unexpected and spectacular find - a carved sandstone head.
archaeologyorkney.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A fantastic find this week at Skaill Farm on Rousay, Orkney a red sandstone head with some similarity to carvings at St. Magnus cathedral and built into the old parish church of St. Mary.
🏺via @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social
🏺via @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social
Are there words for chanterelles/giroles in Scots and Gaelic? Surely one of Scotland's most giving forage species.
July 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Are there words for chanterelles/giroles in Scots and Gaelic? Surely one of Scotland's most giving forage species.
That (or one in the series) is the one I saw in an Edinburgh charity book shop and mentioned to you previously, at the Wighton. I'll try to check out the shop on the off chance it is still there - don't there was much demand for it!
June 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
That (or one in the series) is the one I saw in an Edinburgh charity book shop and mentioned to you previously, at the Wighton. I'll try to check out the shop on the off chance it is still there - don't there was much demand for it!
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Fulbright scholar Ivana Prica Miladinovic, researching the impact of John Cage's work on Eastern European music and art, visited us at JCT. Here's Ivana about to read through a 1984 letter from musicologist Niksa Gligo from Zagreb about Cage's participation in the Music Bienalle Zagreb Festival.
June 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Fulbright scholar Ivana Prica Miladinovic, researching the impact of John Cage's work on Eastern European music and art, visited us at JCT. Here's Ivana about to read through a 1984 letter from musicologist Niksa Gligo from Zagreb about Cage's participation in the Music Bienalle Zagreb Festival.
"Councillor Sean Ferguson spoke up during the meeting about the rebuild of the Mackintosh building. He said: "What context are we to consider this in? In no other situation would we be considering the impact on a burnt-out ruin of a building."
...such as Linlithgow Palace, perhaps? SG call in?
...such as Linlithgow Palace, perhaps? SG call in?
June 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Councillor Sean Ferguson spoke up during the meeting about the rebuild of the Mackintosh building. He said: "What context are we to consider this in? In no other situation would we be considering the impact on a burnt-out ruin of a building."
...such as Linlithgow Palace, perhaps? SG call in?
...such as Linlithgow Palace, perhaps? SG call in?
Tim, these are fragments from an unfinished research project of mine provisionally titled "Song and Verse of the Scottish Stone Trades". Hopefully I'll be in a position to share the full thing in due course.
May 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Tim, these are fragments from an unfinished research project of mine provisionally titled "Song and Verse of the Scottish Stone Trades". Hopefully I'll be in a position to share the full thing in due course.
And, I can't look at that image without thinking of Tom Scott's lines from Brand the Builder, also on characters from St Andrews:
...ilka mason packs his mell and tools awa...
The labourer haps the lave o the lime
Wi soppan sacks, to keep it frae a frost, or faa o suddent snaw
Duran the nicht,
...
...ilka mason packs his mell and tools awa...
The labourer haps the lave o the lime
Wi soppan sacks, to keep it frae a frost, or faa o suddent snaw
Duran the nicht,
...
May 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
And, I can't look at that image without thinking of Tom Scott's lines from Brand the Builder, also on characters from St Andrews:
...ilka mason packs his mell and tools awa...
The labourer haps the lave o the lime
Wi soppan sacks, to keep it frae a frost, or faa o suddent snaw
Duran the nicht,
...
...ilka mason packs his mell and tools awa...
The labourer haps the lave o the lime
Wi soppan sacks, to keep it frae a frost, or faa o suddent snaw
Duran the nicht,
...
Tim
It is superb and great the subjects are named.
The full reference is at: collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/jamie-s...
My copy (used without permission) is from Raymond Lamont-Brown and Peter Adamson Victorian and Edwardian Fife from Old Photographs. Ramsay Head, Edinburgh 1980 p. 13.
Stuart
It is superb and great the subjects are named.
The full reference is at: collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/jamie-s...
My copy (used without permission) is from Raymond Lamont-Brown and Peter Adamson Victorian and Edwardian Fife from Old Photographs. Ramsay Head, Edinburgh 1980 p. 13.
Stuart
Jamie Spence and Bo'sun Tamson.
Portrait of two men in work clothes outside house, one seated on barrel, with hammer, trowel, hod, other leaning on ladder.
collections.st-andrews.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Tim
It is superb and great the subjects are named.
The full reference is at: collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/jamie-s...
My copy (used without permission) is from Raymond Lamont-Brown and Peter Adamson Victorian and Edwardian Fife from Old Photographs. Ramsay Head, Edinburgh 1980 p. 13.
Stuart
It is superb and great the subjects are named.
The full reference is at: collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/jamie-s...
My copy (used without permission) is from Raymond Lamont-Brown and Peter Adamson Victorian and Edwardian Fife from Old Photographs. Ramsay Head, Edinburgh 1980 p. 13.
Stuart
This is my fave pic of Scottish lime workers. St Andrews.
May 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is my fave pic of Scottish lime workers. St Andrews.
This is very good news!
May 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
This is very good news!
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Just out from Patsy Reid & Alice Allen (Strathspey Queens) beautifully playing their selection of my violin & cello solos & duets:
Patsy Reid writes "It’s not being pressed into a 💿 but . . . you can head over to Bandcamp to buy your own digital copy!"
patsyreid.bandcamp.com
Patsy Reid writes "It’s not being pressed into a 💿 but . . . you can head over to Bandcamp to buy your own digital copy!"
patsyreid.bandcamp.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Is this, by any chance, linked to the 1946/7 reports of the Advisory Council on Education in Scotland that recommended the preparation of a new Scottish song collection under the auspices of the Saltire Society? See my paper in Ethnomusicology Ireland:
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May 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Is this, by any chance, linked to the 1946/7 reports of the Advisory Council on Education in Scotland that recommended the preparation of a new Scottish song collection under the auspices of the Saltire Society? See my paper in Ethnomusicology Ireland:
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Interesting twist in a high profile listed building at risk case:
A Scottish Tory council leader has stepped down 'temporarily' amid a police probe into a secret recording that saw him offer jobs for “pals” and brand local authority staff 'f****** useless'
Scottish Tory council boss steps down 'temporarily' as police probe secret recording
A SCOTTISH Tory council leader has stepped down “temporarily” amid a police probe into a secret recording that saw him offer jobs for “pals”…
www.thenational.scot
April 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Interesting twist in a high profile listed building at risk case: