Went to lend a hand at #CamphillDig26 today. While the team have yet to determine if the site's residents were Iron Age, Roman or Mediaeval, we now at least know that they were regular users of Glasgow's tram network. Congrats to fellow #SGHET volunteer Dougie for finding it in our pit.

Two (very likely) Neolithic axe fragments from the #CamphillDig26 site found in the past 24 hours. Nothing like this has been found in Glasgow for well over a century!

I spent an interesting hour or so today at the open day at the Camphill Earthworks dig in Queen's Park on the southside of Glasgow. The open day is still on until 3pm if you want to check it out for yourself. #glasgow #archaeology #glasgowtocday #queenspark #glasgowwhistory

Out digging at the Camphill earthwork with @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social and Kieran Manchip @archscot.bsky.social and students and volunteers. This site has everything from prehistory and post-medieval farming to rich contemporary archaeology (campfires, arboglyphs, graffiti, and witchy rituals)!

Those who know Glasgow’s Queen’s Park & Camphill well may recognise this excavation target, an improvised fire pit in a circle of boulders. Amazingly in this area we’ve found a possible posthole, a cobbled surface and - something potentially Neolithic! #CamphillDig26

Exposing the clay rampart at Camphill enclosure. #CamphillDig26 #Glasgow #UrbanPrehistory?

📆 Camphill Archaeology Open Day Sat 29th Aug 11am-3pm ~ explore the excavations, learn about the area's history, family-friendly activities 🙌 📆 Other days: Excavations run 24th Aug-4th Sept drop by 10am-3pm any day (except Sun 30th) to discover what's going on at the site 👀 See you there💚 #Glasgow

Nothing prehistoric yet at #CamphillDig26 but here’s a Bakelite Glasgow tram token from at least 70 years ago. It was found in a test pit near where excavations last happened on the site 75 years ago. Was it dropped by a digger? 😉

Day 1 of #CamphillDig26. Our team of student trainees & volunteers made a cracking start deturfing the bank that surrounds Camphill enclosure in #Glasgow. The clay core of the bank is close to the surface thankfully. Tomorrow we’ll try to find the ditch edges. @archscot.bsky.social

📆 Camphill Archaeology Open Day Sat 29th Aug 11am-3pm ~ explore the excavations, learn about the area's history, family-friendly activities 🙌 📆 Other days: Excavations run 24th Aug-4th Sept drop by 10am-3pm any day (except Sun 30th) to discover what's going on at the site 👀 See you there💚 #Glasgow

Today is the launch of PAMphlet, a new arts magazine in Scotland. I wrote a piece documenting the arts and leisure closures in Glasgow in the first 6 months of 2026. pamphlet.scot/reflecting-o...

Reflecting on Cultural Vulnerability in Glasgow—Emma Balkind—Summer 2026 — PAMphlet

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📆 Our next 6 events ~ including 3 for #Glasgow #DoorsOpenDays Festival ~ are fully-booked ... but we've activated waiting lists on all of them. 🔔 For instant alerts on future events follow us on Eventbrite 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/south-glas...

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Council commits to taking further action to protect future of historic landmark

Councillors have agreed to keep a much-loved Victorian park attraction open to the public and to take further action to protect its future.

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Good News Friday: The historic Electric Cinema (1909) on Station Street in Birmingham has been officially added to the city’s Local Heritage List. The UK’s oldest working cinema before abruptly closing in Feb 2024, campaigners have opposed plans to demolish it for a 50 storey residential tower.

The #Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival also offers a vast range of other drop-in activities that don't require booking, from peeks into historic buildings to community exhibitions and more... check out their full Festival Programme here 👉 www.glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk 💚 bsky.app/profile/gbpt...

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⚡️ The Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival programme is now LIVE – and bookings are open! ⚡️ Discover Glasgow for free this September. Scotland's largest free heritage and community festival returns from 17–20 September 2026, inviting you to step – or wheel – behind the scenes of the city.

Directors Room, Glasgow School of Art. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1899. Photo: A. Varady. c.2005.

📆 Our next 6 events ~ including 3 for #Glasgow #DoorsOpenDays Festival ~ are fully-booked ... but we've activated waiting lists on all of them. 🔔 For instant alerts on future events follow us on Eventbrite 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/south-glas...

📆 Southside History Run ~ returns Sat 15th Aug 🏃 Pair running with local heritage exploration! Join our qualified jog leader for a gentle 5.5km around 4 areas surrounding Queen's Park #Glasgow with stories of people, past events & more shared at stops en route 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southside-...

📆 Unseen Historical Buildings of Tradeston ~ Sat 22nd Aug... discover the stories of the area's remarkable landmarks & consider their possible futures on the cusp of massive surrounding redevelopment in this once mighty industrial area of #Glasgow Tickets & info👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unseen-his...

Cessnock Underground, #Glasgow 1977. 🚇 (Duncan McPherson)

The Queen's Park Glasshouse is at a crossroads, and residents are fighting to keep it open. Your support can make a difference in this campaign. Every donation helps cover essential costs like posters and flyers. gofund.me/eaec17f61

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Another #Strathbungo #househistory. This time we're at the former 25 Princes Square, better known now as 55 Marywood Square. The first resident was Robert Murdoch, a mason who built Cragie St police & fire station, and the next Robert More, a maker & retailer of fine silk gowns on Buchanan Street.

Strathbungo Heritage Walking Tour rewind ~ before the closing rain we'd a balmy 2 hours exploring... with history, architecture & former residents stories in the mix. More #Glasgow Southside walks coming in August... for instant notice follow us on Eventbrite 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/south-glas...

#Glasgow Cathcart walk now fully-booked but we've activated a waiting list... Follow us on Eventbrite for instant notification of future walks later this summer & beyond 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/south-glas...

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📆 Cathcart Heritage Trail ~ Sun 5th July... join us to explore the past & present heritage of the former village that became a stylish #Glasgow suburb. Discover mills & workers cottages, artists & architects, royalty & rebellion, a lost castle and more #Glasgow 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cathcart-h...

Not Van Gogh but the wildflower meadow part of the Old Castle Road, Old Cathcart Gardens (0745 hrs 13/6/26 😁)

📆 Cathcart Heritage Trail ~ Sun 5th July... join us to explore the past & present heritage of the former village that became a stylish #Glasgow suburb. Discover mills & workers cottages, artists & architects, royalty & rebellion, a lost castle and more #Glasgow 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cathcart-h...

There's an incredible new tiled mural at Glasgow Central today, produced by Make It Glasgow. It recreates an advertising poster by Margaret & Frances Macdonald for Joseph Wright's Drooko Umbrella Co. #Glasgow

Thanks to everyone who joined me on the @sghetorg.bsky.social Magnificent 11 walk yesterday - great time and company and thankfully the rain stayed off !

📆 New event: Pollokshields History Run Sat 20 June ~ Join our qualified jog leader for a gentle 5.5km around Glasgow's garden suburb with history, architectural designs & past Pollokshields residents stories shared at stops en route [18+ only] #Glasgow Tickets ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pollokshie...

Came here to mention this upcoming walk, but it's sold out already!. Ah well, you just need to follow SGHET for the next one, at Doors Open Day in September. SGHET has other events too, including a running history tour of Pollokshields.

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📆 Strathbungo Heritage Tour ~ Sat 27th June... join us to explore the story of the old village of Strathbungo, now largely vanished with only traces remaining, before walking through the Victorian suburb to discover its bygone designers, builders & residents 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathbung...