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⭐️ Request for Information ⭐️ We have a large collection of sketches by costume designer Richard Croft, who worked on television shows including Dr Who, Blackadder and By the Sword Divided. However, we know very little about him. 1/2

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🚨 New on Substack, my post on the planning and development of the Mackworth Estate in Derby ... open.substack.com/pub/municipa...

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Congrats to final year BA (Hons) Painting student Jocelyn Arnold, one of the recipients of The Supporting Act Foundation creative bursaries. He told us how the €10,000 award transformed his life and practice during the final year of his degree - read all about it: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/news/so-moti...

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For this week's #ThrowbackThursday here is the plan of Dundee from the 1925 Directory. Have a wee look and see what Dundee City Centre was like in 1925. Not every building is marked but some of the places of note are named. What can you see. #Dundee #Archives

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2/2 … and if you wish to visit the village lost to opencast coaling in person the Landscape Journey is fully accessible and importantly it is our first to have been table top mapped. Thanks Sam. To access the route see 👇

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Gorbals pub, photographed in 1968 by Jürgen Schadeberg. #Glasgow

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News about Aberdeen’s amazing Northern Co-operative Society store of 1966-70. It became John Lewis in 1989 and closed during the pandemic (one of 16 that never reopened). A bit of John Lewis history here: buildingourpast.com/2025/01/30/s...

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26th February 2025 07.04

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Table top mapping enables anyone who struggles with poor mobility to be involved and create walking routes for the #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum’s collection. Margaret also had a dead simple but brilliant idea that’s helped develop our method - have the proposed route videoed!

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Thon tree, earthfast at the foot of your Alpine meadow, dark, with mossy branches, – apple perhaps – can you give it a message? Can you please say spring will be there soon? —Kathleen Jamie, “Old Women” published in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2015

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7 Bristo Square, Edinburgh University, was built as a student centre 1966-73 by Morris & Steedman. Concrete modernism with stilts and ribbed towers. Adapted and retrofitted a number of times since. #brutalism #architecture #Edinburgh #modernism 📷 Album: flic.kr/s/aHsjPARU9o

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There is no student experience without staff (academic & professional services)

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Hello Bluesky - it's good to be here! Do follow us if you're interested in vernacular architecture and buildings archaeology.

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This is grotesque and no, Today Programme, it isn’t funny - as the excellent Lyse Doucet made very clear

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🎓 Higher Education 🎓 “British universities have been warned to ‘stress-test’ all assessments after new research revealed ‘almost all’ undergraduates are using generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in their studies.” #AcademicSky

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“... it is a flagship mission for Europe and it will be made possible by expertise in Edinburgh and Glasgow. This is a great example of how our leading role in ESA is delivering jobs and discovery for UK science.” Paul Bate of UK Space Agency #Edinburgh #science www.adsadvance.co.uk/space-facili...

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"This has to be a recurring and sustainable reduction in our costs. For us, this is of the order of £140m. To put this into context, it costs around £120m a month to run the University of Edinburgh." UoE VC PM. #Edinburgh #HE #education ttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c204kn5n4z6o

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Help please #palaeography #bookhistorians - what is the word beginning with c and ending with in after book? It's from 1519 from the Edinburgh Hammermen books, and clearly refers to purchase of the book they're using: 'Item for this buk c[??]in paper and bynding xjs ijd'

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One for @emgeekay.bsky.social ?

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#FamilyHistory #genealogy #Scotland

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Statue throws hammer at worker on scaffold, Chamber’s Street Edinburgh, today #photography #StreetPhotography

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A week show of Aurora last night in #Northumberland #photography

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Marmalade update. Worth the effort. 🍊🍊🫙🫙

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All together now: "The problem with gen AI is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

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My digital reconstruction depicts Markinch Parish Church under construction. The MacDuff Earls of Fife built it in the early twelfth century to replace an earlier church dedicated to St Drostan. Commissioned Work. © Bob Marshall / Fife Coast and Countryside Trust 2015.

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"The new Land Use Framework is an opportunity to make the best possible use of our finite land and balance competing demands ... If that’s going to work, a long overdue rethink of Agricultural Land Classification is needed." CPRE #FoodSecurity #planning #England #ALC www.cpre.org.uk/news/uk-farm...

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25th February 2025 07.15

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The last king of France was forced to abdicate today in 1848. His regime swept aside by a popular revolution triggered by the government's refusal to allow a large public banquet. Gotta love the French.

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This #MapMonday, have a look at this 1592 coastal chart of the east coast of Scotland and northern England ⛵ This map was made by Dutch cartographer, Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer. Waghenaer was a skipper for 29 years. His seafaring career influenced his later work 🗺️ What familiar ports can you see? 👀

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"Research by Jisc ... found UK institutions had educated 50 world leaders who were in post in 2022, with the US in second place with 41, followed by the Russian Federation (14) and France (six)." #HigherEd #AcademicSky #HE www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Yet: "... the net zero economy is widely distributed around the UK, with ... net zero jobs increasing by 20% in Scotland since 2022." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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