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Elizabeth C. Waight
@marchlands.bsky.social
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Writer, photographer, underwater warrior 🐋 #protectwhatyoulove Museums, magic and mayhem✨(she/her). Views and malapropisms all mine. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 #amquerying
www.marchlands.co.uk https://youtube.com/@intothemarchlands?si=BBeZbuJMPBaq2xzq
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Going through footage of #hawaii #mantarays for my upcoming exhibition at Fitzrovia Chapel. I'll be making acrylic boxes of some of the phenomenal wildlife I was lucky enough to spend time with
#artmatters
#protectwhatyoulove Music: Palladio by Sir Karl Jenkins.
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The world feels so dangerous and frightening right now. Sunrise to sunset, savour every second of beauty you can x
A wooden bench facing out to sea.
September 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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No words left.
A mother in Gaza holds her starving child, who’s spine and ribs protrude through their tiny back. Most of the child’s hair has fallen out. The child’s lower half is dressed in a black bin bag.
July 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Ways to celebrate and connect with World Ocean Day 🌊 Thank you @goldmanprize.bsky.social
A figure staring out to sea. Text reads: Take Time to Reflect Spend some time reflecting on your own connection to the sea. What do our oceans mean to you? If you can, get out there with the water! goldmanprize What looks like bubbly water on a metallic surface. Text reads: Clean Water Starts at Home What we dispose of through the toilet can significantly harm aquatic environments and contribute to ocean pollution. Protect marine life by keeping wipes, plastics, and chemicals out of your drains. goldmanprize Food being kept in reusable containers. Text reads: Use Less Plastic Choose alternatives to single-use plastics like reusable water bottles, bags, and food containers (and encourage others to do the same). goldmanprize A platter of seafood. Text reads: Eat Sustainable Seafood Find local and in-season seafood options near you. Look for certifications from the Marine Stewardship Council and Seafood Watch that recognize well-managed fisheries. goldmanprize
June 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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I’ve yet to find a companion as companionable as solitude #Thoreau ♥️
A path leading straight through a forest of tall pine trees Ferns filling the forest floor and speckled with light. Fir trees all around. My feet on a bed a leaves with light shards falling on them. A close up on a tree trunk with leaves all around.
June 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Please see this film. Yes, at times it’s a hard watch, but it has to be. It’s also indescribably beautiful and compelling and filled with hope. Our oceans are our lungs, our life force, and they can recover much quicker than we think. The time to act is now! #Ocean #Conservation #DavidAttenborough
A poster advertising the film. The main image features a humpback whale inside streams of sunlight.
May 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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I passed my #freeding course, whoop whoop! Struggling to upload here, so here’s a few screenshots of my first under water video 🌊🦭🦭🦭 So excited for this new #ocean #conservation adventure!
Close in on a seal flipper. Sea grasses with light streams crossing them. A female common seal - grey with dark grey spots - and a purple jelly fish. A female common seal facing the camera!
May 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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I got to take some objects from #medhist to Guy’s Hospital today, for patients and staff to enjoy - if that’s the right word: they included a lithotomy probe!
Me sitting at a table covered with medical history museum objects including carbolic soap, a steam inhaler, plague doctor mask and blood letting tools.
April 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I had a lovely walk around Clerkenwell this weekend, in preparation for my upcoming well-being walks with Barts Hospital staff. The walks are part of a wider #well-being programme for staff, patients and visitors, organised by @bartsheritage.bsky.social Can’t wait to get started!
A patch of yellow Acorus plants. A plaque that reads: Deep Peace of the running wave to you Deep Peace of the flowing air to you Deep Peace of the quiet earth to you Deep Peace of the shining stars to you Deep Peace of the gentle night to you moon and stars pour their healing light on you Deep Peace of the Son of Peace to you A Gaelic Blessing A bronze figure (representing peace) and a stone water fountain with lion head motif. An old stone wall with bushes in front of it and the top an old building with slate chimneys behind it.
April 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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#Soil at #SomersetHouse is a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring and celebrating the wondrous world beneath our feet. Life is soil. Soil is life. To protect life we must protect and nourish our soil, not strip in bare. Book while you can. ‘Incredible’ doesn’t cover it.
April 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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For all of you missing mums today, sending love 💕 It’s so bloody hard!
My mum and me when I was three and she was twenty nine.
March 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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This is Hossam's team, and we are sharing his final message : "If you're reading this, it means I have been killed -most likely targeted-by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old-a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents - anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people's side. By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest-something I haven't known in the past 18 months. I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people. l ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories-until Palestine is free." — For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.
March 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Cheers ♥️
A mug with ‘mine’ written on it, being held out against the river backdrop.
March 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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On this #internationalwomensday I’m taking some time for me. Hope you can all do the same x
March 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
A photograph with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the caption: He could fill up a plane with money and escape Ukraine, but he didn't. He could hide in a bunker, but he didn't. He could hand the country over to the Russians, but he didn't. THIS IS WHAT BRAVERY AND HONOR LOOK LIKE.
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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#FairDo’s

‘Medieval Women: In Their Own Words’ @britishlibrary.bsky.social Exhibition open until 2nd March.
D-I-V-O-R-C-E Welsh Laws of Women Wales, 1250-90s According to the Welsh lawcode known as Llyfr lowerth (The Book of lowerth), a woman could leave her husband within seven years of their marriage, while retaining her rights and possessions, on one of three grounds: if he had leprosy; if his breath stank; or if he was unable to have sex. To prove the latter, they were to have sex upon a newly washed white sheet; if the man could not ejaculate on the sheet, his wife was entitled to a separation. The British Library, Cotton MS Titus D II
February 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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So much fun with this talented group of story tellers. I was blown away by their creativity and enthusiasm. Can’t wait to read their stories! And what better place for inspiration than the @oldoptheatre.bsky.social #middlegrade #writers #hooray!
February 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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2/2 Their work reveals a story of stolen children, racial science, and misappropriated artefacts. Seeing Truth in Museums reflects on the intergenerational trauma that remains an enduring legacy of British colonial era collecting practices, while advocating for truth, reconnection and repatriation.
The same doll featured alongside text written in an Aboriginal language, with English translation: Gradually my families, like two living mountains, have become moulded together. My story and identity becomes stronger with each day that I continue to live, breathe and express myself, and the messages of my ancestors through art, literacy and the power of storytelling.
February 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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1/2 On opposite sides of the world and unbeknown to one another, the Tasmanian Aboriginal artist and the British artist and historian Dr Jane Wildgoose began focusing their research on two tiny objects that originated in Tasmania in the nineteenth century, which are now in a collection in the UK.
A bead bracelet, a tiny doll and a variety of shell jewellery. Accompanying hand written text reads: No one told Mathinna that her family was going to be rounded up and removed from their homelands, but "the writing was on the wall.” As I transcribe my story here. Take me back to school. The memory; “I am a good litte girl.” *Bluesky glitching and not allowing me to transcribe the rest of the text.
February 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Been photographing some of the weird and wonderful items for sale in the @oldoptheatre.bsky.social shop. Museum open Thursday to Sunday, with a range of awesome evening and school hols events. A true hidden #Southwark gem www.oldoperatingtheatre.com Just visiting the shop is free. It’s online too!
A collection of stone worrywarts sitting on the steps of an ancient wooden staircase. A plague doctor rubber duck sitting in the centre of an 18th century wooden operating table. A bookmark featuring a skull sitting on a pile of books with a candle stick next to it, laying atop an old leather bound book, which in turn lays on an 18th century wooden operating table. A game called ‘Pick Your Poison’ in a black box with white writing, sitting next to an old green ridged poison bottle and a gold table lamp.
January 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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There’s something at the end of the trail we’re all looking for. Love this ♥️ Rest in beauty #DavidLynch See you in my surreal dreams, mostly inspired by you xx
A TFL Service information board that reads: "WE'RE ALL LIKE DETECTIVES IN LIFE. THERE'S SOMETHING AT THE END OF THE TRAIL THAT WERE ALL LOOKING FOR." -David Lynch @allontheboard
January 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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A greetings card depicting four illustrations from Bernard Albinus‘ anatomical atlas of 1747.
January 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. So, let these spells ring far and wide; speak their words and seek their art, let the wild world into your eyes, your voice, your heart.
A glorious and inspirational book by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & #JackieMorris #TheLostSpells
A close up of a beautifully painted fox’s face, close in on its sparkling green eyes.
January 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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“Back away from the bling!” A slightly protective ring bearer today, who I definitely wasn’t messing with 😉 #blueskycats
Duke the flurry cat, lying in a cat stroller and sternly protecting a wedding ring.
December 30, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Wishing festive fun to all celebrating today, and for anyone who may be struggling, here’s to 2025! Xx
A glass of champagne with an ice cube floating in it. The ice cube has cranberries, an orange piece and a sprig of rosemary in it.
December 25, 2024 at 3:47 PM