Dr Jen Farquharson
@jenfarquharson.bsky.social
Historian of mental health and WW1. Heritage professional. Author and editor. Content Officer at The Engine Shed. IM of the CIEP. PhD.
Lots of Modern Apprenticeships open for applications at Historic Environment Scotland:
✅ Bricklaying
✅Plastering
✅Joinery
✅and Stonemasonry
Fixed-term.
Full-time.
Locations: various
Deadline for applications: 05/07/2025
Apply here: www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/wor...
✅ Bricklaying
✅Plastering
✅Joinery
✅and Stonemasonry
Fixed-term.
Full-time.
Locations: various
Deadline for applications: 05/07/2025
Apply here: www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/wor...
Current vacancies
We advertise all of our vacancies on our website, including full and part-time jobs, apprenticeships and seasonal staff.
www.historicenvironment.scot
June 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Lots of Modern Apprenticeships open for applications at Historic Environment Scotland:
✅ Bricklaying
✅Plastering
✅Joinery
✅and Stonemasonry
Fixed-term.
Full-time.
Locations: various
Deadline for applications: 05/07/2025
Apply here: www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/wor...
✅ Bricklaying
✅Plastering
✅Joinery
✅and Stonemasonry
Fixed-term.
Full-time.
Locations: various
Deadline for applications: 05/07/2025
Apply here: www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/wor...
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Still 2 weeks to apply for the position of Senior Programme & Communications Manager (mat leave cover) as part of the DRI team based @ria.ie!
Great opportunity to contribute to the smooth functioning of a #DigitalCulturalHeritage organisation.
Apply by 21 May www.ria.ie/about/career...
Great opportunity to contribute to the smooth functioning of a #DigitalCulturalHeritage organisation.
Apply by 21 May www.ria.ie/about/career...
May 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Still 2 weeks to apply for the position of Senior Programme & Communications Manager (mat leave cover) as part of the DRI team based @ria.ie!
Great opportunity to contribute to the smooth functioning of a #DigitalCulturalHeritage organisation.
Apply by 21 May www.ria.ie/about/career...
Great opportunity to contribute to the smooth functioning of a #DigitalCulturalHeritage organisation.
Apply by 21 May www.ria.ie/about/career...
Historic Environment Scotland are running their Skills Survey. If you're an employer, sole trader, or organisation working in/with the heritage sector, tell us your skills/training needs and gaps to help monitor the skills health of the sector: haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/development-...
Skills Survey for Historic Environment Employers
- Historic Environment Scotland
- Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by Historic Environment Scotland
haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot
May 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Historic Environment Scotland are running their Skills Survey. If you're an employer, sole trader, or organisation working in/with the heritage sector, tell us your skills/training needs and gaps to help monitor the skills health of the sector: haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/development-...
Job opportunity with @nationalgalleries.bsky.social:
🌐Social Media Officer
📅Full time (35 hrs)
💲£29,888 - £32,602
🏠Hybrid/flexible working
⏱️Deadline: Monday, 12 May 2025
Learn more: ngs.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
🌐Social Media Officer
📅Full time (35 hrs)
💲£29,888 - £32,602
🏠Hybrid/flexible working
⏱️Deadline: Monday, 12 May 2025
Learn more: ngs.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
Vacancies
Discover your next role with us. Find out more details about each role by clicking on the job titles in the table below.
ngs.ciphr-irecruit.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Job opportunity with @nationalgalleries.bsky.social:
🌐Social Media Officer
📅Full time (35 hrs)
💲£29,888 - £32,602
🏠Hybrid/flexible working
⏱️Deadline: Monday, 12 May 2025
Learn more: ngs.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
🌐Social Media Officer
📅Full time (35 hrs)
💲£29,888 - £32,602
🏠Hybrid/flexible working
⏱️Deadline: Monday, 12 May 2025
Learn more: ngs.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
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Did anybody else catch this @theguardian.com article on censorship in libraries?
'in an Index on Censorship survey last year, 28 of 53 librarians polled reported that they had been asked to remove books from library shelves, many of which were LGBTQ+ titles'
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a....
'in an Index on Censorship survey last year, 28 of 53 librarians polled reported that they had been asked to remove books from library shelves, many of which were LGBTQ+ titles'
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a....
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
www.theguardian.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Did anybody else catch this @theguardian.com article on censorship in libraries?
'in an Index on Censorship survey last year, 28 of 53 librarians polled reported that they had been asked to remove books from library shelves, many of which were LGBTQ+ titles'
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a....
'in an Index on Censorship survey last year, 28 of 53 librarians polled reported that they had been asked to remove books from library shelves, many of which were LGBTQ+ titles'
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a....
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There are now only eight weeks until Canmore is switched off. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, while you still can.
Do you use Historic Environment Scotland's data? If so you need to know that Canmore is being retired this June.
Trove (www.trove.scot) is replacing it and is now online in beta.
Please try it out and feedback your comments here: haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/heritage/470...
Trove (www.trove.scot) is replacing it and is now online in beta.
Please try it out and feedback your comments here: haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/heritage/470...
April 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
There are now only eight weeks until Canmore is switched off. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, while you still can.
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The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
Archived Resources | The Society for Military History
www.smh-hq.org
April 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
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The janitor's house of Charles Rennie MacKintosh's Scotland Street School on the Southside of Glasgow. Built between 1903 and 1907, I love the way the rooflines of the gables sweep down and integrate into the boundary wall.
#glasgow #architecture #charlesrenniemackintosh #architecturephotography
#glasgow #architecture #charlesrenniemackintosh #architecturephotography
April 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The janitor's house of Charles Rennie MacKintosh's Scotland Street School on the Southside of Glasgow. Built between 1903 and 1907, I love the way the rooflines of the gables sweep down and integrate into the boundary wall.
#glasgow #architecture #charlesrenniemackintosh #architecturephotography
#glasgow #architecture #charlesrenniemackintosh #architecturephotography
Job opportunity with The Unicorn Preservation Society based in Dundee. FT and PT roles. Fixed-term contracts. Deadline for applications: 22nd April 2025.
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-un...
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-un...
#hiring | The Unicorn Preservation Society
📣 We're #hiring!
We are looking for a Project Officer and a Project Administrator to join our Project Safe Haven team – our ambitious conservation initiative to relocate HMS Unicorn to Dundee’s E...
www.linkedin.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Job opportunity with The Unicorn Preservation Society based in Dundee. FT and PT roles. Fixed-term contracts. Deadline for applications: 22nd April 2025.
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-un...
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-un...
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In this Beyond The Knife podcast episode, @surgeonshall.bsky.social Collections Coordinator Danielle Dray discusses a brief history of medical illustration, its changing purpose, and the women who led the way in professionalising medical art.
Listen here: https://bit.ly/3XNeEhP
Listen here: https://bit.ly/3XNeEhP
April 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In this Beyond The Knife podcast episode, @surgeonshall.bsky.social Collections Coordinator Danielle Dray discusses a brief history of medical illustration, its changing purpose, and the women who led the way in professionalising medical art.
Listen here: https://bit.ly/3XNeEhP
Listen here: https://bit.ly/3XNeEhP
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Hugely exciting doctoral studentship opportunity supervised by the IHR's @justincolson.bsky.social, @adamchapman.bsky.social, and @charlesxhistory.bsky.social, Alexandra Stevenson of Historic Royal Palaces. Applications close 26th May 2025.
PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: ‘Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period’ at University of London
At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: ‘Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period’. Explore our d...
www.jobs.ac.uk
April 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Hugely exciting doctoral studentship opportunity supervised by the IHR's @justincolson.bsky.social, @adamchapman.bsky.social, and @charlesxhistory.bsky.social, Alexandra Stevenson of Historic Royal Palaces. Applications close 26th May 2025.
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Calderhead Church & School #Shotts from a picture postcard posted in 1909
In the foreground is one of the reservoirs for the nearby Shotts Iron Works, showing how the community lived in a landscape shaped by industry www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...
In the foreground is one of the reservoirs for the nearby Shotts Iron Works, showing how the community lived in a landscape shaped by industry www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...
February 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Calderhead Church & School #Shotts from a picture postcard posted in 1909
In the foreground is one of the reservoirs for the nearby Shotts Iron Works, showing how the community lived in a landscape shaped by industry www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...
In the foreground is one of the reservoirs for the nearby Shotts Iron Works, showing how the community lived in a landscape shaped by industry www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...
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🚨 We’re Hiring! 🚨
Love Glasgow’s historic buildings? 🏛️ Join GCHT as a Built Heritage Officer!
💼 £33-34K | 📍 Glasgow | 📅 Apply by 14 April
Work on grant management, conservation advice & outreach—plus great benefits & career development!
🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/0KWJs0s
Love Glasgow’s historic buildings? 🏛️ Join GCHT as a Built Heritage Officer!
💼 £33-34K | 📍 Glasgow | 📅 Apply by 14 April
Work on grant management, conservation advice & outreach—plus great benefits & career development!
🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/0KWJs0s
March 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🚨 We’re Hiring! 🚨
Love Glasgow’s historic buildings? 🏛️ Join GCHT as a Built Heritage Officer!
💼 £33-34K | 📍 Glasgow | 📅 Apply by 14 April
Work on grant management, conservation advice & outreach—plus great benefits & career development!
🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/0KWJs0s
Love Glasgow’s historic buildings? 🏛️ Join GCHT as a Built Heritage Officer!
💼 £33-34K | 📍 Glasgow | 📅 Apply by 14 April
Work on grant management, conservation advice & outreach—plus great benefits & career development!
🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/0KWJs0s
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
Join GCHT as our Office Administrator and help keep the team running smoothly! 🗂️🏛️
💼 £24K pro rata | 25 hrs/week
📍 Glasgow
📅 Apply by 21 April
Perfect part-time role for an organised, friendly multitasker!
🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/t1gctsz
Join GCHT as our Office Administrator and help keep the team running smoothly! 🗂️🏛️
💼 £24K pro rata | 25 hrs/week
📍 Glasgow
📅 Apply by 21 April
Perfect part-time role for an organised, friendly multitasker!
🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/t1gctsz
March 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
Join GCHT as our Office Administrator and help keep the team running smoothly! 🗂️🏛️
💼 £24K pro rata | 25 hrs/week
📍 Glasgow
📅 Apply by 21 April
Perfect part-time role for an organised, friendly multitasker!
🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/t1gctsz
Join GCHT as our Office Administrator and help keep the team running smoothly! 🗂️🏛️
💼 £24K pro rata | 25 hrs/week
📍 Glasgow
📅 Apply by 21 April
Perfect part-time role for an organised, friendly multitasker!
🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/t1gctsz
Lots of job opportunities at Glasgow Life, advertised over at their LinkedIn page. Includes:
🖌️Senior Conservator
📅Event Manager (Industry and Activation)
📈Box Office Sales Admin
🏛️Gallery Assistant
www.linkedin.com/posts/glasgo...
🖌️Senior Conservator
📅Event Manager (Industry and Activation)
📈Box Office Sales Admin
🏛️Gallery Assistant
www.linkedin.com/posts/glasgo...
Glasgow Life LinkedIn current vacancies | Glasgow Life
🚨 Current vacancies at Glasgow Life 🚨
Senior Conservator ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eVKp4WxV
Event Manager - Industry and Activation ➡️…
www.linkedin.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Lots of job opportunities at Glasgow Life, advertised over at their LinkedIn page. Includes:
🖌️Senior Conservator
📅Event Manager (Industry and Activation)
📈Box Office Sales Admin
🏛️Gallery Assistant
www.linkedin.com/posts/glasgo...
🖌️Senior Conservator
📅Event Manager (Industry and Activation)
📈Box Office Sales Admin
🏛️Gallery Assistant
www.linkedin.com/posts/glasgo...
Permanent part time role with @westminsterabbey.bsky.social as Conservation Housekeeper. Part time (16 hours), permanent contract. Deadline: 11 April 2025:
careers.westminster-abbey.org/vacancies/97...
careers.westminster-abbey.org/vacancies/97...
Conservation Housekeeper in Westminster, London | Westminster Abbey
View details and apply for this Conservation Housekeeper vacancy in Westminster, London.
We are looking to recruit a part-time Conservation Housekeeper. This is an exciting opportunity to join ...
careers.westminster-abbey.org
March 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Permanent part time role with @westminsterabbey.bsky.social as Conservation Housekeeper. Part time (16 hours), permanent contract. Deadline: 11 April 2025:
careers.westminster-abbey.org/vacancies/97...
careers.westminster-abbey.org/vacancies/97...
Deadline tomorrow (1st April). Job opportunity with @nationalgalleries.bsky.social as a Digital Content Producer. Part time (21 hours, 3 days pw). Fixed term (to Oct 2026).
ngs.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
ngs.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
Digital Content Producer
Are you passionate about storytelling and digital innovation? Do you thrive in creative environments where your ideas bring cultural collections to life?
ngs.ciphr-irecruit.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Deadline tomorrow (1st April). Job opportunity with @nationalgalleries.bsky.social as a Digital Content Producer. Part time (21 hours, 3 days pw). Fixed term (to Oct 2026).
ngs.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
ngs.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
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Life is pretty grim right now. Here's my #starterpack of writers, historians and institutes sharing quirky medical and science content that might serve as a welcome distraction. Make your corner of the world weird and wonderful. Never stop learning.
go.bsky.app/3DuVT6Z
go.bsky.app/3DuVT6Z
January 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Life is pretty grim right now. Here's my #starterpack of writers, historians and institutes sharing quirky medical and science content that might serve as a welcome distraction. Make your corner of the world weird and wonderful. Never stop learning.
go.bsky.app/3DuVT6Z
go.bsky.app/3DuVT6Z
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@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social Given the popularity of your STEM writers' starter pack, maybe you can repost this from your pals @sshmedicine.bsky.social ?
@sshmedicine.bsky.social freezing its X account for some very sensible reasons.
January 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social Given the popularity of your STEM writers' starter pack, maybe you can repost this from your pals @sshmedicine.bsky.social ?
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@womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social Free pdf can be downloaded below. This is not explicitly a book about women's history but a quick flip through shows that the author has highlighted women wherever possible.
bsky.app/profile/aman...
bsky.app/profile/aman...
They do indeed! In the book, chapter six (on Muslim narratives about stonemasonry in the context of the Indian colonial industrial economy) is probably the most directly relevant, but chapters 4 (carpentry) and 5 (boilermaking) might also be of interest!
www.luminosoa.org/site/books/m...
www.luminosoa.org/site/books/m...
University of California Press
Luminos is University of California Press’ Open Access publishing program for monographs. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production and marketing as our traditional program,...
www.luminosoa.org
January 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social Free pdf can be downloaded below. This is not explicitly a book about women's history but a quick flip through shows that the author has highlighted women wherever possible.
bsky.app/profile/aman...
bsky.app/profile/aman...
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This is really shocking: and true. I discovered I'd just been upgraded without consent to an AI-enshittified package that was about £30 a year more expensive. Strongly recommend anyone who has an Office 365 follow the below advice to get rid of it
Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit.
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
Redirecting
answers.microsoft.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
This is really shocking: and true. I discovered I'd just been upgraded without consent to an AI-enshittified package that was about £30 a year more expensive. Strongly recommend anyone who has an Office 365 follow the below advice to get rid of it
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Did someone say Amazon is going to stop selling books published by Bloomsbury? Well, Osprey is part of Bloomsbury...
Buy my Great War books cheaper from the author.
simonjoneshistorian.com/2024/05/24/w...
simonjoneshistorian.com/2024/05/24/w...
Buy Signed Copies of The War Underground 1914-18 and World War I Gas Warfare
I am able to offer signed copies of my book The War Underground 1914-18 (Osprey Elite Series) for £14 UK (RRP £14.99) or £18 Europe or £20 Rest of the World. All prices include UK 2nd Class or Inte…
simonjoneshistorian.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Did someone say Amazon is going to stop selling books published by Bloomsbury? Well, Osprey is part of Bloomsbury...
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Fantastic to see the UK’s first drug consumption room finally open its doors in Glasgow. Congratulations to all those who made this happen. As the experience from more than 200 drug consumption rooms around the world shows, The Thistle will save many lives: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘All eyes are on Glasgow’: UK’s first legal drug consumption room ready to open
The Thistle will be available 365 days a year and provide a supervised space where drugs can be injected safely
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Fantastic to see the UK’s first drug consumption room finally open its doors in Glasgow. Congratulations to all those who made this happen. As the experience from more than 200 drug consumption rooms around the world shows, The Thistle will save many lives: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I note that the '3 energetic sisters' all gave evidence to this important report.
electrifyingwomen.org/the-three-en...
@graemegooday.bsky.social
electrifyingwomen.org/the-three-en...
@graemegooday.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I note that the '3 energetic sisters' all gave evidence to this important report.
electrifyingwomen.org/the-three-en...
@graemegooday.bsky.social
electrifyingwomen.org/the-three-en...
@graemegooday.bsky.social
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Still not applied for one of our @ihrlibrary.bsky.social graduate trainee posts? One of our current trainees has written the blog post about her first term with us. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/01/firs...
January 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Still not applied for one of our @ihrlibrary.bsky.social graduate trainee posts? One of our current trainees has written the blog post about her first term with us. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/01/firs...