Any Glasgow folk at a loose end this evening and fancy a walk round the Gorbals in the sun, come and join me on this tour! Fine to just turn up, meet outside old St Andrews Printworks on Pollokshaws Rd, 6pm www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-hi...

Radical histories of the Gorbals

Walking through the radical histories and present-day struggles of the city of Glasgow

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This weekend! I'll be at Glasgow Zine Fair with some pals and our zines about a heady mix of soup, belonging, bogs, worms, and protest

Chatting to @paulmalgrati.bsky.social is a pleasure always, this time a special treat to do so for his podcast for Scottish words & ideas, @thecarryingstream.bsky.social. The episode features a new Gaelic poem of mine, 'Na Crainn', which took shape between Daoulaz in Brittany, Aberdeen, and Prague.

The Carrying Stream@thecarryingstream.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This episode’s guest is Dr Petra Johana Poncarová, a native speaker of Czech who has become a distinguished scholar of Gaelic literature and an award-winning poet in Gaelic. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇿 Petra’s perspective is totally unique, and I’m very glad to share this conversation with you. pod.link/1865430519

I've got a journal article out! '"The Order of the Elephant": Symbols and Power in the Policing of Land Agitation in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland' - exploring medals awarded to police who arrested land agitators in the 1880s, one of which is on display @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social

Our email subscribers are enjoying an article by @laurzzs.bsky.social on her work on Agnes Owens. Thank you for supporting us Laura and we can’t wait to visit @aowensarchive.bsky.social Subscribe today via us4.list-manage.com/contact-form... #thebletherpgr #theblether #agnesowens

When we're drawing on these histories in discussions of land reform today, they need to be accurate and inclusive. Thanks to Kirsty Watt at the WHFP for this lovely article (and to Alastair for the photos!)

Alastair McIntosh@alastairmci.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Women ♀ have held centre stage in historical land struggles and they very much continue to do so into modern Scottish land reform. Here, Grace Wright from the Isle of Skye feeds inspiration from archives into the land struggles of today: archive.org/details/plot... @graceq22.bsky.social

I'll be shouting about my research in Portree next week!

Zines as research, archive & resistance 📚 In our latest blog, @graceq22.bsky.social reflects on a SGSAH-supported residency at Cove Park and how zine-making can surface marginalised histories of land agitation in the Isle of Skye. 👉 Read it here: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/20/p...

Plotting the Protest: Zine-Making as Research and Resistance at Cove Park

In the next post of the ecologies strand, guest blogger Grace Wright reflects on their SGSAH-supported residency at Cove Park in Scotland, and the place of zines in archives, academic research, and…

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Excellent resource to share a name with

The Past and other Places@pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Grace's Guide. Historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and made them. 📚🗃️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This is the #Edinburgh page: www.gracesguide.co.uk/Category:Tow...

A reminder that this year's Canna Lecture will take place on tomorrow evening (Friday) in Edinburgh! Bidh an Dr Màrtainn MacGriogair a-mach air bàrdachd agus eachdraidh nan Gàidheal anns an 19mh linn. llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...

Canna Lecture | Celtic & Scottish Studies | Literatures Languages and Culture

Join The Gaelic Texts Society and Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh for their annual Canna Lecture by Dr Martin Macgregor (University of Glasgow), entitled ‘“Ach thèid an cran...

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'Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival' is now available for pre-order from @edinburghup.bsky.social in paperback and with a 30% discount with the code PAPER30. Coming in December! 🎁

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

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Call for Papers.... UHI Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland Conference 9-10 February 2026 at UHI Perth @thinkuhi.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social See institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/10/21/c...

It's me! I'll be taking folk on a (virtual) tour of Portree of the 1880s, talking about land agitation and the social networks which made it possible

I can't see a cas-chrom without thinking of police reports from the 1880s saying they were being used to deforce the police (and imagining how buff you'd need to be for that)

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Ploughing with a cas-chrom (foot plough), Wester Ross [photo: Highland Life Collection; Edinburgh Central Library]

Tha Oilthigh Ghlaschu a' sireadh Manaidsear Leasachaidh Gàidhlig

Manaidsear Leasachaidh na Gàidhlig/Gaelic Development Manager – Obraichean Gàidhlig

University of Glasgow

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One day to go! Online tickets here 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/interrogat...

Tickets now available for Interrogating the Napier Commission, with papers spanning everything from modern legacies to specific localities. To join us in person 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1434560461...

Interrogating the Napier Commission (In Person)

A two-day conference exploring the 1883 Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Condition of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands.

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Beautiful week on residency at Cove Park working on a zine re-mapping Portree with histories of land agitation - ending with a morning too rainy even for the ducks to be out but perfect for a last bit of writing

New tour! Take a multimedia trip round the streets of Govanhill exploring histories of migration, food cultures and the build environment. Listen to refugee historians from Milk Community Glasgow talk through some of the stops and sights: radicalglasgowtours.com/self-led-aud...

Audio tour: Tastes of Govanhill

by Sithara Koramparambil from the WordPress Photo Directory. Take yourself on a sound walk around Govanhill, exploring refugee histories,food cultures and the built environment. At each stop, …

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Crofters and cottars and lairds, oh my! Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2