Flitcraft
@flitcraft.bsky.social
Scottish history generalist with early modern tendencies. She/her. AuDHD
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John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
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I also know a lot of young women historians who have been burned/marginalized by the academy and (very successfully) turned to public scholarship, which would also be a very cool thing to cover
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I also know a lot of young women historians who have been burned/marginalized by the academy and (very successfully) turned to public scholarship, which would also be a very cool thing to cover
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"In another 50 years, we will be mourning what has been lost, instead of celebrating what has been saved"
Fiona Reynolds asks in a new Country Life article if the UK Govt of today will step-in to save churches like the govt of the 1970s saved country houses 👇
www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opin...
Fiona Reynolds asks in a new Country Life article if the UK Govt of today will step-in to save churches like the govt of the 1970s saved country houses 👇
www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opin...
The Labour government of the 1970s saved our country houses. Will a Labour government of the 2020s save our country churches?
Why not invest to save the most valuable community resources we have, perfectly placed at the heart of communities?
www.countrylife.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"In another 50 years, we will be mourning what has been lost, instead of celebrating what has been saved"
Fiona Reynolds asks in a new Country Life article if the UK Govt of today will step-in to save churches like the govt of the 1970s saved country houses 👇
www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opin...
Fiona Reynolds asks in a new Country Life article if the UK Govt of today will step-in to save churches like the govt of the 1970s saved country houses 👇
www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opin...
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Should add really that if you're a smol newsletter bean who would dearly love to NOT be on Substack, then I will happily roll (and manage) a Ghost install for you for cost + a small maintenance fee.
I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.
I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.
Okay, Ghost V6 integrated with Tinybird for analytics is pretty damn filthy.
Been running @theupfront.media on Ghost for a while as part of our "No Nazi platforms" stack. Very happy with it (and with our Germany-based email hosting instead of Google Business)
The technology you use is a choice.
Been running @theupfront.media on Ghost for a while as part of our "No Nazi platforms" stack. Very happy with it (and with our Germany-based email hosting instead of Google Business)
The technology you use is a choice.
October 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Should add really that if you're a smol newsletter bean who would dearly love to NOT be on Substack, then I will happily roll (and manage) a Ghost install for you for cost + a small maintenance fee.
I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.
I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.
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"The Picts emerge from the shadows and step forward in technicolour" 🤩
'Carved in Stone', an illustrated guide to 7th-century Scotland packed with information on languages, settlements, cuisine, fashion, medicine, skills and more, is now available for purchase: www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
'Carved in Stone', an illustrated guide to 7th-century Scotland packed with information on languages, settlements, cuisine, fashion, medicine, skills and more, is now available for purchase: www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"The Picts emerge from the shadows and step forward in technicolour" 🤩
'Carved in Stone', an illustrated guide to 7th-century Scotland packed with information on languages, settlements, cuisine, fashion, medicine, skills and more, is now available for purchase: www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
'Carved in Stone', an illustrated guide to 7th-century Scotland packed with information on languages, settlements, cuisine, fashion, medicine, skills and more, is now available for purchase: www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
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Despite a fairly simple exterior, #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, Southend Parish Church on Kintyre has some spectacular stained glass #WindowsOnWednesday by Ballantine & Son and Gordon Webster. They were installed by Ina Campbell, Dowager Duchess of Argyll, to commemorate Queen Victoria.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Despite a fairly simple exterior, #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, Southend Parish Church on Kintyre has some spectacular stained glass #WindowsOnWednesday by Ballantine & Son and Gordon Webster. They were installed by Ina Campbell, Dowager Duchess of Argyll, to commemorate Queen Victoria.
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2025-1951 - comparison shots of Wheeler’s 1951 excavation on Site A, Stanwick, with how it looks today. 1 of 2
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
2025-1951 - comparison shots of Wheeler’s 1951 excavation on Site A, Stanwick, with how it looks today. 1 of 2
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
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Very much looking forward to Prof Driscoll’s Dalrymple lectures on 20th and 21st November on the theme of the contribution of archaeology to the story of #Glasgow850
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
https://gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Very much looking forward to Prof Driscoll’s Dalrymple lectures on 20th and 21st November on the theme of the contribution of archaeology to the story of #Glasgow850
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
Free for anyone to attend.
More information here:
gla.ac.uk/schools/humani…
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Why not become a member of SSNS?
As well as providing access to events and publications (including our journal), you will support the Society to promote and fund research into the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish worlds - both within Scotland and further afield
www.ssns.org.uk/membership/
As well as providing access to events and publications (including our journal), you will support the Society to promote and fund research into the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish worlds - both within Scotland and further afield
www.ssns.org.uk/membership/
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Why not become a member of SSNS?
As well as providing access to events and publications (including our journal), you will support the Society to promote and fund research into the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish worlds - both within Scotland and further afield
www.ssns.org.uk/membership/
As well as providing access to events and publications (including our journal), you will support the Society to promote and fund research into the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish worlds - both within Scotland and further afield
www.ssns.org.uk/membership/
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A thoughtful and nuanced review (and I particularly appreciated the last columns’s brief take on morality and the C of E’s reparation scheme).
How do Lenny Henry’s arguments for reparations for trans-Atlantic slavery stand up to Lord Biggar’s arguments against them? Head-to-head review here:
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A thoughtful and nuanced review (and I particularly appreciated the last columns’s brief take on morality and the C of E’s reparation scheme).
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do you guys know about the jawbone of St Anthony
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
do you guys know about the jawbone of St Anthony
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Being in a perpetual state of autistic burnout is crazy because if you handle it too well, everyone perceives you as being totally fine and it gets much harder to advocate for accommodations or explain why it's not feasible to regularly repeat an activity you managed to just barely tolerate once.
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Being in a perpetual state of autistic burnout is crazy because if you handle it too well, everyone perceives you as being totally fine and it gets much harder to advocate for accommodations or explain why it's not feasible to regularly repeat an activity you managed to just barely tolerate once.
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I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
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For the feast day of St Martin of Tours, the cover of the amazing Berthold Sacramentary from Weingarten, Germany (now Morgan Library MS M.710). Created 1215-17, its decoration reflects the rededication of the abbey church to St Oswald, St Martin and the Blessed Virgin Mary. #MedievalSky
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
For the feast day of St Martin of Tours, the cover of the amazing Berthold Sacramentary from Weingarten, Germany (now Morgan Library MS M.710). Created 1215-17, its decoration reflects the rededication of the abbey church to St Oswald, St Martin and the Blessed Virgin Mary. #MedievalSky
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Beneath the chapel, in the medieval undercroft, there is a corrugated iron Anderson-type bomb shelter from the 1940s. But why is there a bomb shelter underneath an intensely rural chapel?
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November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Beneath the chapel, in the medieval undercroft, there is a corrugated iron Anderson-type bomb shelter from the 1940s. But why is there a bomb shelter underneath an intensely rural chapel?
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Starting with supposedly Pride-invested, LGBTQ+ supporting HSBC… www.hsbc.com/news-and-vie...
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Starting with supposedly Pride-invested, LGBTQ+ supporting HSBC… www.hsbc.com/news-and-vie...
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Well, in light of Matlis & Sopel’s self-confessed bigotry, perhaps it’s time to see if News Agents can similarly get closed. Boycot Global, boycott anyone that sponsors or advertises on it, and let them know exactly why you are. If they think anti-LGBTQ sentiment is such a lark, make it expensive.
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Well, in light of Matlis & Sopel’s self-confessed bigotry, perhaps it’s time to see if News Agents can similarly get closed. Boycot Global, boycott anyone that sponsors or advertises on it, and let them know exactly why you are. If they think anti-LGBTQ sentiment is such a lark, make it expensive.
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'lime twigs are laid to catch both their hasty messengers', a memorable line from George Carey, September 1582. Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
George Douglas of Helenhill - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
'lime twigs are laid to catch both their hasty messengers', a memorable line from George Carey, September 1582. Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
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Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display for first time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display in Kirkcudbright
It resembles a perfume bottle and a Latin inscription on it suggests it had a religious function.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display for first time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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For giants and dwarves in Norse Orkney, see some brief comments by me in ‘Kirkwall, Orkney’, in Europe: A Literary History 1348-1418, ed. David Wallace, Oxford: OUP 2016, I, 375-383.
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
For giants and dwarves in Norse Orkney, see some brief comments by me in ‘Kirkwall, Orkney’, in Europe: A Literary History 1348-1418, ed. David Wallace, Oxford: OUP 2016, I, 375-383.
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This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty.
It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty.
It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
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9 November 1582: John Somer, one of Walsingham's espionage apparatchiks, writes to Walsingham about a conversation with Elizabeth I. He has evidently been talking to Archibald Douglas, an exiled Scot and inveterate (Protestant) conspirator, who seems to be back in the business. 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
9 November 1582: John Somer, one of Walsingham's espionage apparatchiks, writes to Walsingham about a conversation with Elizabeth I. He has evidently been talking to Archibald Douglas, an exiled Scot and inveterate (Protestant) conspirator, who seems to be back in the business. 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Eleven of the parties in the provincial parliament of Limburg have now requested the Limburg government to look into the possibility of creating a (temporary) memorial for our Black American liberators in cooperation with Eijsden-Margraten (where the cemetery is located).
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Limburgse Statenleden willen tijdelijke herdenkingsplek voor zwarte bevrijders
Statenleden willen een gedenkteken voor zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders nu hun informatiepanelen in Margraten zijn verwijderd
www.nrc.nl
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Eleven of the parties in the provincial parliament of Limburg have now requested the Limburg government to look into the possibility of creating a (temporary) memorial for our Black American liberators in cooperation with Eijsden-Margraten (where the cemetery is located).
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...