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Marina Dossena
@marinadossena.bsky.social
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wants Scotland back in Europe asap, preferably as an independent republic; in love with history and its impact on language change. Music and cats always very welcome. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Happy 94th Birthday Abbey Road.
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Happy 94th Birthday Abbey Road.
Yes, it’s happy 94th anniversary to Abbey Road Studios, the scene of so many incredible recording sessions over the years.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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The chapter's out and I am so thrilled!
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Networks, Coalitions and Language Change (Chapter 25) - The New Cambridge History of the English Language
The New Cambridge History of the English Language - October 2025
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October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Tomorrow’s the big event! 🎉 Celebrate 1 trillion saved pages with The Web We’ve Built with #InternetArchive. Join in San Francisco or online 🌐

📅 Weds, Oct 22
🕖 7 PM PT
🖥️ Virtual ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...
🎟️ In Person ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...

#Wayback1T
Poster with a gradient blue background. Large text reads “the web we’ve built.” Smaller text says “Celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived.” Pixelated 3D icons of a floppy disk, magnifying glass, cursor arrow, computer window, and others radiate outward from a bright starburst in the center. On the right, text lists event details: “Wednesday, October 22, 5–10PM PT. Live stream: 7–8PM PT. 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco.” The Internet Archive logo appears in the bottom right corner.
October 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Convegno internazionale | Leisure and Entertainment in Late Modern Times
7 novembre 2025 09:30 - 8 novembre 2025 12:30
in-person and Google Meet
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October 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2025
Edinburgh Celebrates A Great Scottish Writer
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October 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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NEW DISCOVERIES ON A GEORGIAN MURDER CASE — The WS Society
When Katherine Nairn fell in love with the dashing Patrick Ogilvie in 1765, it would have been the perfect match – but for the fact that she was already married to Patrick’s older brother, Thomas. In ...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Is anyone surprised?
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Scots would vote for independence in new referendum, poll finds
SCOTS would vote to leave the Union if a new independence referendum were held tomorrow, a new poll has found ...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Gaza City Facing Complete Obliteration theorkneynews.scot/2025/09/13/g...
Gaza City Facing Complete Obliteration
There will be a Peace vigil today, Saturday 13 September on the Kirk Green, Broad Street, Kirkwall between 1 and 2pm. The vigils have been ongoing since the end of October 2023 calling for an immed…
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September 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Your Right to Decide
Your Right to Decide sets out the Scottish Government's view that it is for the people of Scotland to decide on their constitutional future. It calls on the UK Government to make a clear commitment to...
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September 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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We’re really pleased that our Robert Fergusson exhibition, initially held at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library last year, is now available online. If you weren’t able to visit last year, click along and remember Robert Fergusson with us 👇
rfergussonpoet.bsky.social Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Sep 2
We're very excited to announce that our wonderful exhibition 'Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)' with the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has been turned into an online exhibition!

Check it out at the link below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/online-exhib...
September 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are
part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr
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Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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July 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Annnd it's oot an it's OA tae!!
Sae thrilled, sae grateful, an sae happy!
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Project MUSE - Scottish Literary Review-Volume 17, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2025
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July 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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News from Edinburgh.
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Review of Race and History | The University of Edinburgh
The academically-led review explores historic racial and colonial injustices, including enslavement, linked to the University as well as reassessing current policies and procedures.
www.ed.ac.uk
July 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Support for independence is at its highest level ever.
July 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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LIVE: Activists gather at Edinburgh demo in support of Palestine Action
Protesters have gathered in support of Palestine Action with reports some are to defy the Labour Government’s proscription of the group Hundreds…
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July 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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You don't need to be a butterfly expert to get involved in the #BigButterflyCount 🦋🔎

Use our free identification guides for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to help you.

Download them and take part here 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count identification guide for England with photos of each species Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count identification guide in Welsh with photos of each species Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count identification guide for Scotland with photos of each species Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count identification guide in Irish with photos of each species
July 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Token: A Journal of English Linguistics vol. 17 is now online.
A big thank-you to our amazing team in Kielce and to our guest editors for this issue, Irene Ranzato and Luca Valleriani!
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Volume 17
TOKEN 17 Special issue: Adapted Literature and Theatre in Audiovisual Translation Guest editors: Irene Ranzato (Sapienza University of Rome) and Luca Valleriani (University of Tuscia and Sapienza Un...
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June 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I'm in vol. 3. You've no idea how thrilled, humbled and elated I am. I could cry every time I think about it, no kidding.
June 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Bereavement conference this Tuesday at George Heriot's
George Heriot’s School is hosting a Bereavement in Education Professional Learning for Teachers conference on 3 June from 10am-3.30pm. The conference promises to be a highly insightful day on bereavem...
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June 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Free online event
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Events and seminars - Renaissance and Early Modern Research Alliance (REMRA)
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May 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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The future of Scotland’s space sector
YouTube video by The Royal Society of Edinburgh
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April 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The recording of our ISLE Forum is now online.
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April 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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RIP Pope Francis.
April 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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selcie.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky! We're SELCIE, Scotland's Early Literature for Children Initiative 🦉, a children's literature research project housed in English & Scottish Literature @Edinburgh Uni. We work in partnership with Edinburgh's Museum of Childhood 🍂
December 9, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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As we prepare to remember Culloden.
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Military Cantonments of the British Army in Scotland, 1745-56
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April 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM