Mark Rustbucket
@markrustbucket.bsky.social
My career is in ruins. Industrial heritage, Scotland and beyond. #TICCIH #IHBC
Interested in the history of enslaved people, Black history, and George Washington? Download this report, which is still on the NPS site (for now). My research team spent 3 years collaborating with descendants of people enslaved at the Washington's Headquarters site and the wonderful NPS staff:
Black History at the Vassall Estate Special History Study (U.S. National Park Service)
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It would be remiss of me not to promote Changing Landscapes again after such a lovely post about it 😊. www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
Sam Johnson@analoguelass.bsky.social · 7mo agoFirst zine of 2026 - a wonderfully curated experience - full of richness and depth - highly recommend @mariegardiner.bsky.social #photography
I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you! adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...
The Open Access is now available for "Historical Authenticity" Many thanks to the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de for the support!👏👇 doi.org/10.5040/9781350474857
Bloomsbury Collections
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Leibniz-Forschungsverbund "Wert der Vergangenheit"@valuepast.bsky.social · 8mo ago📖Out now: "Historical Authenticity. A transdisciplinary compendium", ed. by Martin Sabrow & Achim Saupe (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social), published by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social. The book was published in German first in 2022 by @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social and now has been revised and translated 🎉
Especially in Pammukele in Turkey. Limestone stalactites and pools for swimmers. Near Aphrodisias, neither of which places had any adverse effect on us.
Postcard From The Past@pastpostcard.bsky.social · 9mo agoLife here is full of tomorrows.
A short service of dedication was held in Stockbridge today where the first Scottish Stolperstein was installed at Saint Stephens church in memory of Jane Haining who died at Auschwitz youtu.be/o1JSO9Z55xk?...
First Scottish Stolperstein installed in Edinburgh
YouTube video by TheEdinburghReporter
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Wrought iron had John Ruskin's approval due to the handwork (and mechanical help) involved. Cast iron did not but is here in the columns, not capitals, at Oxford Museum. #FerrousFriday
Linda Hull@lahull.bsky.social · 10mo ago#IronworkThursday @morethanadodo.bsky.social
We haven't done an #IronWorkThursday post for a while, so here's one of the wrought iron gates leading into the kirkyard around our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, Corstorphine Old Parish Church, Edinburgh. The arms are those of the Forrester family, founders of this ancient church, who also lie within.
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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Delightful doc with Mark Bonnar exploring Scottish new town public art, including the hippos of Glenrothes made by his artist dad Stan. New towns, public art, Mark Bonnar? It’s ✅✅✅ from me
Meet You at the Hippos
Mark Bonnar returns to the Scottish new towns in which he grew up to explore the street sculpture made by artists such as his dad.
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📆 Talk this Thur 23rd Oct 6.30pm at @glasgowheritage.bsky.social on 'Greek' Thomson's Walmer Crescent, a dramatically curved tenement block off Paisley Rd West at Cessnock in #Glasgow southside ~ Dominic d’Angelo of The Alexander Thomson Society shares its story www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/greek-thom...
‘Greek’ Thomson’s Walmer Crescent, Curving in Straight Lines
A talk by Dominic d'Angelo on Thomson's Walmer Crescent
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Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine, Ayrshire, of interest to IDF? Digital models of boatyard for conservation and research. “The Museum has no control over how the data is subsequently accessed, downloaded, or used."
Jack Sapoch@jacksapoch.bsky.social · 11mo agoAs someone who works with satellite and 3D imagery, this project reinforced how crucial it is to question what’s rendered as truth. Keep an eye out for some follow ups in different mediums looking ahead Full story w/ @972mag.com via Oren Ziv: www.972mag.com/israeli-army...
I can confirm that Watson's wick works.
Ennis@edinburghennis.bsky.social · 11mo agoHow amazing are these Halloween candles?! From Watson’s Wick Works (@Watson’s wick works on insta) who are at Edinburgh Portobello’s Brighton Park market first Saturday of the month - & at the Pitt market on October 12th
Clark Street Bridge, 1929 double bascule bridge, pony trusses apparently. The predecessors had some mishaps, the river was reversed and regularly turns green to celebrate Irish migrants. www.chicagoloopbridges.com/bridges12/MS...
N. Clark St bridge history
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe absurdity in Chicago right now. #cdnpoli
#doorsopenday this weekend in Edinburgh, East Lothian, Dundee, Orkney and Kinneil House. Along with Open House, Heritage Open Days, all thanks to #JEP #EHD European Heritage Days which tend to be forgotten about (but Northern Ireland always gives credit) www.doorsopendays.org.uk/about/europe...
Doors Open Days
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If you're exploring #DoorsOpenDay this weekend, pop by The Paper Factory in Edinburgh - we've got a huge visual art showcase in an abandoned industrial site! 🏭🚪 We're open 11am - 4pm today and tomorrow 1 Turnhouse Road EH12 8NP FREE entry Details: hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-s...
Edinburgh Doors Open Day listings are out! September 28 & 29. #doorsOpenDay #edinburgh #history #buildings www.doorsopendays.org.uk/find-a-build...
Doors Open Days | Find a building
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Buses will be the big attraction on Doors Open Day theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2025/09/buse... via @EdinReporter
Buses will be the big attraction on Doors Open Day
Lothian’s Doors Open Day takes place on Saturday 27 September 2025, and for the second year in a row it will be held at the company’s Marine depot at 18 Seafield Road East, EH15 1EB. Running from 11.0...
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From a newspaper account of the extremely bibulous dinner that followed the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 27 September 1825. I like the image of George Stephenson quietly slipping out before too much fuss was made.
Starting to get busy for day two of the S&DR anniversary weekend. The Skerne Bridge in Darlington along with Locomotion No1 are the stars today. #Railway200
Lonely Tower Film & Media@lonelytower.bsky.social · 11mo agoIt's been quite a day! The S&DR 200 Journey begins 😃 Huge congratulations to everyone involved in a brilliant start to the weekend's events.
The final talk in the second of Royal Marriages Summit series bit.ly/4lifqMO will be delivered by Dr Michael Pearce who will be discussing the marriage of James V of Scotland to Marie of Guise – an important part of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France.
"Preservation as climate action - is our moral imperative. ... The good news is that it’s happening." Last week, CHN attended the National Trust for Historic Preservation annual conference, #PastForward.
This Wednesday we are visiting historians at the University of Aberdeen. The visit includes a public lecture, 5.30pm on 17 Sept, given by our guest speaker, Matthew J Smith (Director of the Centre for the Legacies of British Slavery, UCL) bit.ly/3IjbMVj. All in the region are v. welcome to attend.
Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories
Royal Historical Society public lecture at the University of Aberdeen
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Yet another historic church for sale. Offers over £870k. North Leith, Edinburgh.
Kiruna Church bell tower in cross-town traffic last Tuesday. Then 6,000 more residents discovered they too had to move. #TICCIH #Sweden #Kiruna
Mark Rustbucket@markrustbucket.bsky.social · 12mo agoKiruna Church bell tower on the move last week, at about 3MPH. #KirunaKyrka #ticcih a result of ironstone mining www.linkedin.com/posts/markru...
As the report on this research says, Number 6 "appears to offer a clear and accessible pathway for referral to diagnosis and robust post-diagnostic support. Respondents commended its responsiveness, structure, and the quality of care delivered" It's a model that could be emulated across Scotland.
