Claire Boardman
@claireboardman.bsky.social
People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social (she/her)
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From Monday, we'll be on @ucu.org.uk strike at Sheffield Uni. Mismanagement has brought our #university to its knees - bad for city, country, & #highereducation. Time to get our Uni back. Join us on the #pickets & at the rally with UCU Hallam at 12.30 (Barkers Pool). @sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 7:49 AM
From Monday, we'll be on @ucu.org.uk strike at Sheffield Uni. Mismanagement has brought our #university to its knees - bad for city, country, & #highereducation. Time to get our Uni back. Join us on the #pickets & at the rally with UCU Hallam at 12.30 (Barkers Pool). @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Resolving this took me 2 hours, and my New York colleague at least one hour.
Scale that up to all museum records and that's why there isn't more available digitally.
Support museum folks. Cite the collections data.
Scale that up to all museum records and that's why there isn't more available digitally.
Support museum folks. Cite the collections data.
During audit week I found a record of a curious pigeon. It was from a collector (Mathews) and location (Queensland) that was entirely plausible, and the record was created before 2004. Sounds easy, right?
I couldn't find it.
I couldn't find it.
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Resolving this took me 2 hours, and my New York colleague at least one hour.
Scale that up to all museum records and that's why there isn't more available digitally.
Support museum folks. Cite the collections data.
Scale that up to all museum records and that's why there isn't more available digitally.
Support museum folks. Cite the collections data.
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Can you suggest a guest - working in Scotland - for our new podcast?
Thrivable Scotland, Thrivable Planet is a podcast for people building a better world, people hungry for genuine hope and meaningful action amid the climate, nature and political crises.
Thrivable Scotland, Thrivable Planet is a podcast for people building a better world, people hungry for genuine hope and meaningful action amid the climate, nature and political crises.
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Can you suggest a guest - working in Scotland - for our new podcast?
Thrivable Scotland, Thrivable Planet is a podcast for people building a better world, people hungry for genuine hope and meaningful action amid the climate, nature and political crises.
Thrivable Scotland, Thrivable Planet is a podcast for people building a better world, people hungry for genuine hope and meaningful action amid the climate, nature and political crises.
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This looks amazing - any publishers interested in something like this for early medieval Ireland in the 7th century?
… asking for a friend 🙂
… asking for a friend 🙂
Carved in Stone is officially out!
In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This looks amazing - any publishers interested in something like this for early medieval Ireland in the 7th century?
… asking for a friend 🙂
… asking for a friend 🙂
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The @designcouncil.bsky.social is looking for a new CEO. They are focused on using the design economy to help address the climate crisis and achieve net zero. £130k
www.designcouncil.org.uk/who-we-are/j...
www.designcouncil.org.uk/who-we-are/j...
Chief Executive
The role of the Chief Executive The main purpose of the role is to lead Design Council, to ensure the strategy is robust and the operations will deliver all ...
www.designcouncil.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The @designcouncil.bsky.social is looking for a new CEO. They are focused on using the design economy to help address the climate crisis and achieve net zero. £130k
www.designcouncil.org.uk/who-we-are/j...
www.designcouncil.org.uk/who-we-are/j...
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Cracking interview with Alan Cumming on all the excitement of his inaugural season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
‘I’m not just putting on nice plays’: I spoke to Hollywood star Alan Cumming about his plan to reignite theatre in the Scottish Highlands
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
‘I’m not just putting on nice plays’: Hollywood star Alan Cumming’s plan to reignite theatre in the Scottish Highlands
What is the effervescent new boss at Pitlochry theatre planning for his first season? Huge names, undersung stars – and a King Lear played by ‘the woman who changed my life’
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Cracking interview with Alan Cumming on all the excitement of his inaugural season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
👀 Funded CDT Environmental PhD with excellent supervisory team: “Co-creating Flood-Resilient Green Spaces: Understanding Health, Access and Equity in Leicestershire Communities”
"environmental geography, health & wellbeing, participatory methods & community-led solutions" tinyurl.com/24dzv3ub
"environmental geography, health & wellbeing, participatory methods & community-led solutions" tinyurl.com/24dzv3ub
Co-creating Flood-Resilient Green Spaces | Postgraduate study | Loughborough University
This interdisciplinary PhD project explores the critical but underexamined intersection of environmental geography, public health, and urban resilience. Focusing on structurally disadvantaged populati...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
👀 Funded CDT Environmental PhD with excellent supervisory team: “Co-creating Flood-Resilient Green Spaces: Understanding Health, Access and Equity in Leicestershire Communities”
"environmental geography, health & wellbeing, participatory methods & community-led solutions" tinyurl.com/24dzv3ub
"environmental geography, health & wellbeing, participatory methods & community-led solutions" tinyurl.com/24dzv3ub
What a remarkable early photograph. These girls look so familiar!
Five women, 1840s, photo by Scottish pioneers David Octavius Hill (1802-70) and Robert Adamson (1821-48). Miss Ellen Milne, Miss Mary Watson, Miss Watson, Miss Agnes Milne and Sarah Wilson (Scottish National Portrait Gallery).
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
What a remarkable early photograph. These girls look so familiar!
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We're delighted to announce that Emma, our NEW Mobile Library driver is all ready to go so #BookyMcBookface will be continuing on his travels from next week, beginning in Longhope on Tuesday 18th November.
You can find an updated list of Booky visits at: orkneylibrary.org.uk
You can find an updated list of Booky visits at: orkneylibrary.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We're delighted to announce that Emma, our NEW Mobile Library driver is all ready to go so #BookyMcBookface will be continuing on his travels from next week, beginning in Longhope on Tuesday 18th November.
You can find an updated list of Booky visits at: orkneylibrary.org.uk
You can find an updated list of Booky visits at: orkneylibrary.org.uk
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Barnsley Libraries joined the Creative Climate Accelerator last year, working with young people to turn climate anxiety into action through the film Change is Coming. They’ve since expanded youth-led climate work and greener planning.
>>> juliesbicycle.com/resource/bar...
>>> juliesbicycle.com/resource/bar...
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Barnsley Libraries joined the Creative Climate Accelerator last year, working with young people to turn climate anxiety into action through the film Change is Coming. They’ve since expanded youth-led climate work and greener planning.
>>> juliesbicycle.com/resource/bar...
>>> juliesbicycle.com/resource/bar...
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Come for the cover, stay for the vicious blurb.
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Come for the cover, stay for the vicious blurb.
Such an interesting thread - especially for those researching or studying early modern textiles and/or trade - and social media at it's best* - knowledge and experience happily shared to answer a question or solve a mystery.
* with the exception of @weratedogs.com and @hookland.bsky.social.
* with the exception of @weratedogs.com and @hookland.bsky.social.
Assistance requested: came across reference to 'English East Indian ship' brought 'a peice [sic] of Lywaet, which is very good' to Cormontine, 23 October 1658 (n.s.). 'Lywaet' (translator's spelling) is unknown to me. Many thanks in advance for any and all advice #earlymodern #maritimehistory
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Such an interesting thread - especially for those researching or studying early modern textiles and/or trade - and social media at it's best* - knowledge and experience happily shared to answer a question or solve a mystery.
* with the exception of @weratedogs.com and @hookland.bsky.social.
* with the exception of @weratedogs.com and @hookland.bsky.social.
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Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.
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Can confirm the talk was wonderful! Can also recommend the book, which would make a fab Christmas present for anyone you know who loves history!
#Lancaster! Join Alison Bashford tonight, Nov 12 at 5pm, @globalaffairslu.bsky.social (with @victorianhand.bsky.social) as she discusses her new book, Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic. #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #BookTour #Palmistry buff.ly/jsJZ7Kp
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Can confirm the talk was wonderful! Can also recommend the book, which would make a fab Christmas present for anyone you know who loves history!
"Nostalgia is a warping gravity."
Just for any academics, let me be clear, Hookland is anti-nostalgic. It's an exploration and exorcism of my childhood, not a celebration of falsely remembered sunshine. Nostalgia is a warping gravity.
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"Nostalgia is a warping gravity."
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Heritage Recording Officer
Historic Environment Scotland
Salary: £32,255 - £38, 500
Closing Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/herit...
Historic Environment Scotland
Salary: £32,255 - £38, 500
Closing Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/herit...
Heritage Recording Officer - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: £32,255 - £38, 500Closing Date: 30/11/25Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Heritage Recording Officer
Historic Environment Scotland
Salary: £32,255 - £38, 500
Closing Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/herit...
Historic Environment Scotland
Salary: £32,255 - £38, 500
Closing Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/herit...
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Big news! 📢 MAHSA team members have just published their research on South Asian social media and heritage in the collection, Reporting Heritage Destruction.
doi.org/10.32028/978...
doi.org/10.32028/978...
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Big news! 📢 MAHSA team members have just published their research on South Asian social media and heritage in the collection, Reporting Heritage Destruction.
doi.org/10.32028/978...
doi.org/10.32028/978...
Today's work soundtrack ... Intangible Cultural Heritage Scotland Conference.
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Today's work soundtrack ... Intangible Cultural Heritage Scotland Conference.
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My personal views only, but I'd suggest the following:
(1) a blanket ban on detecting on land that's in any form of environmental stewardship or landscape recovery scheme - because heritage is part of the environment those measures are meant to be protecting
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(1) a blanket ban on detecting on land that's in any form of environmental stewardship or landscape recovery scheme - because heritage is part of the environment those measures are meant to be protecting
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How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Where in the UK is the greatest amount of hidden treasure?
Objects uncovered have included precious Viking coins and a Roman earwax scoop
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
My personal views only, but I'd suggest the following:
(1) a blanket ban on detecting on land that's in any form of environmental stewardship or landscape recovery scheme - because heritage is part of the environment those measures are meant to be protecting
🧵
(1) a blanket ban on detecting on land that's in any form of environmental stewardship or landscape recovery scheme - because heritage is part of the environment those measures are meant to be protecting
🧵
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It looks like an ancient dance floor, aching for lights and .music, the swish of silk and perfume and flirting again
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It looks like an ancient dance floor, aching for lights and .music, the swish of silk and perfume and flirting again
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Almost Arctic light this morning
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Almost Arctic light this morning
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Had such a fascinating chat last night with Neil Carlin, Jessica Smyth and @suegreaney.bsky.social on society in Neolithic Ireland, touching on ancient DNA, kinship, mortuary practice, and how we understand and interpret the past, and so much more!
Coming soon for Amplify Archaeology Podcast!
Coming soon for Amplify Archaeology Podcast!
November 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Had such a fascinating chat last night with Neil Carlin, Jessica Smyth and @suegreaney.bsky.social on society in Neolithic Ireland, touching on ancient DNA, kinship, mortuary practice, and how we understand and interpret the past, and so much more!
Coming soon for Amplify Archaeology Podcast!
Coming soon for Amplify Archaeology Podcast!
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A few photos of how history pops through the slickness of the now. This is a corner in the Museumincel area. The Red Army advanced through here towards the civic district of Berlin in 1945. There’s quite a few bullet impacts still in evidence including some quite large calibre.
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A few photos of how history pops through the slickness of the now. This is a corner in the Museumincel area. The Red Army advanced through here towards the civic district of Berlin in 1945. There’s quite a few bullet impacts still in evidence including some quite large calibre.