Wonderful news for Wilderlands, which has been longlisted for this year's @wainwrightprize.bsky.social for Conservation Writing. Congratulations to @eloi.se! 🌿 #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
Eloise Kane
@eloi.se
Archaeology, writing, research, cheese. PhD in hares. 📖 Wilderlands: The Human History of Wild Britain (April 2026) Ferrier of children. Normally lost.
If you're thinking about coming to @chalkefestival.bsky.social, book now, tix £ increase tomorrow! Masses of fantastic talks inc me chatting to @emmasouthon.bsky.social; @prehistorian.bsky.social & Mel Giles; @eloi.se, plus experimental #archaeology, living history & music! www.chalkefestival.com
So here is a thing, I'm going on a tour to witter about my book to real people! The first few are nice and local, before I get to go hang out with @catjarman.bsky.social at Althorp Lit Fest. Come and say hi!
'Beautiful, deep and grounded... With this wonderful evocation of the changing landscape through time, archaeologist Eloise Kane reveals how humans need not be set against nature, and suggests how we may re-weave ourselves into it.' Alice Roberts on Wilderlands by @eloi.se, out 23 April 🦌
This is coming out quite soon! I loved writing it. I still mean to do some posts talking about it and how it came about. I will!
Faber Books@faberbooks.bsky.social · 6mo ago'It will radically change what you thought about 'wilderness'.' Cat Jarman When was Britain last truly wild? And what, if anything, remains? In Wilderlands, @eloi.se charts the unexpectedly human history of wild Britain across 12,000 years. Available to pre-order now 🦌 linktr.ee/wilderlandsb...
So I'm off out for the eve, to an event with booksellers and publishers and authors, and as far as I can work out it's a free bar, free pizza, and loads of people who just want to stand around talking about books. And this is my job now? Winning! 📚 #booksky
I recorded the audio version of my book recently. It was fun! Great way to just engage with the book before publication. Except for the peppering of errors we found that are too late to correct, including one where I'd creatively renamed Fatsia japonica to something entirely random. Oops 😬 #booksky
Off to London today to see if I'm allowed to read the audio version of my book 📖 Will I speak waaaay too fast? Do I *actually* know how to pronounce all the words I've written? The answer to one of those is yes, the other is no. #booksky
I saw an actual copy of my book in book form yesterday. I wasn't allowed to keep it though, it went to a lovely bookshop owner as a preview! Deep in the very last tiny edits now, hoping I've caught everything 🫣
These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.
Some news! 🥳 This book has been in the works for a long time, and to see its birthday now approaching is so exciting. So grateful to the team at Faber for making this dream a reality 🌳🦌🐇 When I've got more time I have so much to say, but for now it can be preordered here! linktr.ee/wilderlandsb...
Faber Books@faberbooks.bsky.social · 10mo agoWhen was Britain last truly wild? And what, if anything, remains? We're thrilled to publishing Wilderlands by @eloi.se next April, an unexpectedly human history of wild Britain. Available to pre-order now 🦌 linktr.ee/wilderlandsb...
Surely this is my birthday and Christmas present in one @mk.gg
Dr Fern Riddell@drfernriddell.bsky.social · 10mo agoOne of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Going through proofreader's queries and I can almost feel their relief when they have managed to read a whole page without finding anything wrong.
For anyone looking to live out their best witchy life in a little cottage with lots of garden for fantastical herbs and strange looking poultry: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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Slovenia might actually be the most beautiful place I've ever visited.
Nailing the book proposal is much harder than writing the actual book 🫠 By the time the whole thing has a proper shape it sort of writes itself (but this time next year I'll definitely whinge about having to finish another whole book, if anyone wants to publish this one 👀)
The independent researcher joy continues. How can I get access to bits of AM Digital without doing another PhD?
Must have been a good year for crop marks, right? Or was the dry too late?
Once again, may I suggest to my future self and anyone else who would benefit from this sage advice: Don't leave adding in your references to the very end 🫠
My home for the weekend is a late medieval manor with detached kitchen, set around a courtyard with a little-altered pentice 🥰 Happy birthday/Christmas to meeeeeee! I've told my 10yo it's not haunted but it definitely is 😬👻
Why am I seeing so many people have finished their Christmas shopping? What is going on there?
My sister has hundreds and still watches them all. My parents have to be creative in sourcing new ones for her at Christmas nowadays 📼
Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com · 2y agoIt's Video VVednesday! Share a piece of obsolete physical media! VHS, Laserdisc, VCD, UMD, whatever you've got Today it's a beta release of The Samurai, a 1986 or 1987 live action TV(?) movie based on the gag manga of the same name. Does not appear to be very easy to find.
Foundation of an oforu (Japanese bathhouse) from early 20th c Japanese settlement in Canada. Very cool site. No historical documents mention it. Very little arch visibility on surface. Excavations revealed evidence of about a 14 small houses, a garden, and a shrine. Sudden abandonment.
