Peter Ross
@peteralanross.bsky.social
New book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland, will be published by Headline on September 11, 2025. Available for pre-order here: https://linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHorse
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Delighted that Upon A White Horse has made it into the Financial Times’s Books of 2025. The full list is in this weekend’s paper. Many thanks to Tom Robbins for choosing my book.
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My 150th species from within Dundee this year - a surprise find in Eastern Cemetery this morning on my way out to Broughty Ferry and Balmossie - a Ring-necked Parakeet. It turns out there are 'some' of these birds present in grounds of Gardyne College (0.5miles from EC).
#BirdingScotland
#BirdingScotland
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My 150th species from within Dundee this year - a surprise find in Eastern Cemetery this morning on my way out to Broughty Ferry and Balmossie - a Ring-necked Parakeet. It turns out there are 'some' of these birds present in grounds of Gardyne College (0.5miles from EC).
#BirdingScotland
#BirdingScotland
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‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit’?
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit’?
Just read a sentence so good that my scalp tingled.
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Just read a sentence so good that my scalp tingled.
Delighted that Upon A White Horse has made it into the Financial Times’s Books of 2025. The full list is in this weekend’s paper. Many thanks to Tom Robbins for choosing my book.
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Delighted that Upon A White Horse has made it into the Financial Times’s Books of 2025. The full list is in this weekend’s paper. Many thanks to Tom Robbins for choosing my book.
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Posting the carpet because it’s the law;)
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Posting the carpet because it’s the law;)
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Thank you to the Campbells for donating Alasdair’s hard hat used while painting the Oran Mor mural! It will sit beautifully with our archive photos. Have any Alasdair Gray items to donate? Please get in touch!
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Thank you to the Campbells for donating Alasdair’s hard hat used while painting the Oran Mor mural! It will sit beautifully with our archive photos. Have any Alasdair Gray items to donate? Please get in touch!
An excellent piece, by Graeme Smith, on the pleasure and pain of seeing Scotland at the World Cup over the years. Includes a much-needed explanation of why St Etienne is the Motherwell of France.
I really enjoyed writing this piece for
@heraldscotland.bsky.social on the highs and lows of watching Scotland at the World Cup finals which, after the win over Denmark, is something a new generation is about to experience. www.heraldscotland.com/sport/footba...
@heraldscotland.bsky.social on the highs and lows of watching Scotland at the World Cup finals which, after the win over Denmark, is something a new generation is about to experience. www.heraldscotland.com/sport/footba...
'Win, lose or draw - here's why it's worth selling your soul to get to the World Cup'
Scotland fan Graeme Smith was at Italia 90 and France 98 - here's what the new generation of fans have to look forward to
www.heraldscotland.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
An excellent piece, by Graeme Smith, on the pleasure and pain of seeing Scotland at the World Cup over the years. Includes a much-needed explanation of why St Etienne is the Motherwell of France.
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Didn’t get chance to properly post yesterday, as a bit full on, but I have written a book. On the history of music in Sheffield. Out in May via the excellent @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. Pre-order available now and full PR spiel here. Thanks for the love so far
www.thebookseller.com/rights/white...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/white...
White Rabbit signs 'definitive, immersive' history of Sheffield's music scene in four-way auction
White Rabbit has acquired music and culture writer Daniel Dylan Wray’s Groovy, Laidback and Nasty, a history of Sheffield music told through the city’s independent artists, scenes and spirit.
www.thebookseller.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Didn’t get chance to properly post yesterday, as a bit full on, but I have written a book. On the history of music in Sheffield. Out in May via the excellent @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. Pre-order available now and full PR spiel here. Thanks for the love so far
www.thebookseller.com/rights/white...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/white...
Stone Roses, Glasgow Green, 1990. The noise from the crowd in this bootleg is as exciting as the band. So grateful to have been there, aged sixteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqhr...
The Stone Roses - Live Glasgow Green 1990 (Full Concert)Remasterd Audio
YouTube video by Saidoo Music Remastering
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November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Stone Roses, Glasgow Green, 1990. The noise from the crowd in this bootleg is as exciting as the band. So grateful to have been there, aged sixteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqhr...
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Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
A cryptocurrency backed by one of Nigel Farage’s biggest donors has been used to help Russia fight its war against Ukraine, British investigators say.
The National Crime Agency has spent four years trying to crack a multibillion-dollar scheme that exchanges cash from drug and gun sales in the UK for crypto, digital tokens that are designed to hide their users’ identities. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
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@peteralanross.bsky.social 'Upon a White Horse' is a lovely book, Peter. Julian Cope, Mrs Edith Pretty, and George Mackay Brown. What more could a reader ask... Did you know 'Steeple Chasing' is in this quarter's Slightly Foxed magazine? That's four foxes now.
November 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
@peteralanross.bsky.social 'Upon a White Horse' is a lovely book, Peter. Julian Cope, Mrs Edith Pretty, and George Mackay Brown. What more could a reader ask... Did you know 'Steeple Chasing' is in this quarter's Slightly Foxed magazine? That's four foxes now.
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Magical evocations through images and words by @fotofacade.bsky.social of a very special place.
'Travelling along the lane to St Melangell’s is an act of filtration, a redaction of modernity. The pressing matters of the day are pared down with each passing turn.'
'Travelling along the lane to St Melangell’s is an act of filtration, a redaction of modernity. The pressing matters of the day are pared down with each passing turn.'
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Magical evocations through images and words by @fotofacade.bsky.social of a very special place.
'Travelling along the lane to St Melangell’s is an act of filtration, a redaction of modernity. The pressing matters of the day are pared down with each passing turn.'
'Travelling along the lane to St Melangell’s is an act of filtration, a redaction of modernity. The pressing matters of the day are pared down with each passing turn.'
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Haven't touched a drop for a month. Won't it be fine when I do.
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Haven't touched a drop for a month. Won't it be fine when I do.
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It cannot be a coincidence that the most delightful game of football in international history has immediately been followed by two beautiful, crisp autumn mornings.
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
It cannot be a coincidence that the most delightful game of football in international history has immediately been followed by two beautiful, crisp autumn mornings.
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Please read, listen, and share widely. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Please read, listen, and share widely. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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‘Some victims are thought to lie under the concrete pilings of the dams and motorways that changed the Spanish landscape from the late 1950s onwards.’
Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Phelan · Diary: Spain’s Disappeared
Emilio Silva set up the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica to improve and formalise the process...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
‘Some victims are thought to lie under the concrete pilings of the dams and motorways that changed the Spanish landscape from the late 1950s onwards.’
Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Me and @caitlinsmith.bsky.social have teamed up to make another BBC Radio 4 documentary. If At First You Don't Secede asks if there is any way through the current impasse on independence. It's on this coming Sunday (November 23) at 1.30pm if you fancy a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Currently, If at First You Don’t Secede
If at first you don’t secede, should you really try, try, try again?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Me and @caitlinsmith.bsky.social have teamed up to make another BBC Radio 4 documentary. If At First You Don't Secede asks if there is any way through the current impasse on independence. It's on this coming Sunday (November 23) at 1.30pm if you fancy a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The Last Dinner Party were fab at Barrowlands last night, especially the kind of proggy five song run halfway through the set: I Hold Your Anger, Woman Is A Tree, Gjuha, Rifle, Big Dog. The thought also occurred that they'd do a great cover of This Corrosion. Wish I'd been reviewing this one.
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The Last Dinner Party were fab at Barrowlands last night, especially the kind of proggy five song run halfway through the set: I Hold Your Anger, Woman Is A Tree, Gjuha, Rifle, Big Dog. The thought also occurred that they'd do a great cover of This Corrosion. Wish I'd been reviewing this one.
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Chanctonbury Ring: See how the LiDAR whizzes through all the trees so we can see what's underneath. #HillfortsWednesday Photos of Chanctonbury Ring including some from Miles Russell's excavation of 1990 are our page. More 1/
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Chanctonbury Ring: See how the LiDAR whizzes through all the trees so we can see what's underneath. #HillfortsWednesday Photos of Chanctonbury Ring including some from Miles Russell's excavation of 1990 are our page. More 1/
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Absolute dibs on us writing the scotland world cup song. Doesnt need lyrics just needs samples of folk shouting MON THEN over depressing music
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Absolute dibs on us writing the scotland world cup song. Doesnt need lyrics just needs samples of folk shouting MON THEN over depressing music
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The front page of The Herald on Wednesday. @heraldscotland.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The front page of The Herald on Wednesday. @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
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Lionel Messi wears Scott McTominay pyjamas.
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Lionel Messi wears Scott McTominay pyjamas.