Correct decision!🙌 We wish North Queensferry Community Trust all luck with their next steps.
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Correct decision!🙌 We wish North Queensferry Community Trust all luck with their next steps.
#WorldBookDay2026 Two Virtuous Women reading. By #StephenAdam. Window in Gate International, formerly St Mark’s, Dundee. #stainedglass
Archives by Edwin Morgan generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon generation upon g neration up n g nerat on up n g nerat n up n g nerat n p n g erat n p n g era n p n g era n n g er n n g r n n g n n g n g
Today, 28 February, is Scottish Archives Day. Here’s Edwin Morgan’s poem “Archives”, published in Centenary Selected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
@edmorgantrust.bsky.social
#archives #poetry #archives #ScottishArchivesDay
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
📌March Speaker Event
#Fife #Heritage #stonemasonry
A minute of pure hogbackness 🐖
📼 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social
Music: Jotunkvinne
Musician: Kveld (from Audiio)
This is as good as it gets:
this cold fog over the water, this pale
companion to the dreams I can’t forget
and never quite recall…
—John Burnside, “Haar”
in the @lrb.co.uk, 8 Jan 2008
The locations in the #poem are in Cellardyke & Anstruther, just east of St Monans
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
Top: Dunmore Pineapple, Stirlingshire; Bottom left: A panel of speakers at the 2024 CVARF Symposium at Govan Old Church; Bottom right: Baluachraig Rock Art, Kilmartin © ScARF
Our February newsletter is packed with exciting updates - including three new job opportunities and upcoming events across Scotland!
Follow the link to stay up-to-date with the ScARF project: bit.ly/4tIx1CQ
Join us tonight from 7:30pm!👑
Happy Pancake Day! Have a flipping good day...
Cellardyke. The image shows a harbour with part of a pier in the foreground and on the right. Beyond the harbour and to the left is a village made up of white and stone houses, most with red tiles on their roofs. The scene is in sunlight.
The attractive but little-known harbour at Cellardyke, now effectively an eastern extension of Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #Cellardyke #Fife #Harbour #EastNeukOfFife #EastNeuk #Anstruther
On Wednesday (18th) this week, we will host Dr Amy Blakeway who will present her talk on the early reign of Mary Queen of Scots. Join us from 7:30pm in Saline Church Hall for a warm welcome & refreshments! ☕🍰
#Fife #heritage
Caledonian Railway Company opened #OnThisDay in 1848. Dunblane's railway station opened 22 May 1848, later became part of Caledonian rail network. In 2017 Dunblane's original Caledonian Railway footbridge (as seen in lower image) was relocated to heritage railway at Bridge of Dun
Someone is looking away from us towards a Gallery wall. The wall is dark blue and has paintings hanging in bright, golden frames. The largest painting depicts an adult with dark skin and a red shawl, smoking a pipe.
📝Our latest blog post shares the progress we’ve made so far in our anti-oppression journey: highlighting changes made across MGS and how continuous learning and staff training are helping us build long term, sustainable change.
🔗Find out more: lnkd.in/eSxviMMi
📸 Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum
#OnThisDay Mary, Queen of Scots was executed for her involvement in a plot against Elizabeth I.
Read about Mary’s extraordinary life and times in a new story on Our Town Stories - zurl.co/jltdS
📍February's Speaker Event
*note the later time due to a prior community event in the Hall
#Fife #Heritage
The crumbling and precarious clifftop ruins of Newark Castle. The foreground of the image has a bay with the sea to the right at quite low tide. There are cliffs in the middle ground beyond the bay with stone ruins on top of them. The sky is blue and the scene is in sunshine.
The crumbling and precarious clifftop ruins of Newark Castle, near St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife, also sometimes known as the Castle of St Monans. A castle was probably first built here in the mid-1200s. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #StMonans #Fife #NewarkCastle
A short, shallow ditch in grass surrounded by trees, with a line of houses behind.
A 1976 photo of excavations at Bantaskin which revealed the stone base of the Antonine Wall
Hiding in plain sight - a tiny stretch of the Antonine Wall ditch at Bantaskin in Falkirk. The stone base of the Roman wall was excavated here in 1976, but then destroyed to make way for a new road. #RomanSiteSaturday
Our website servers are primed! Address To A Haggis will get over 100,000 hits this weekend. Plus there are all the other #BurnsNight resources we have online for anyone wanting info about the bard, ideas for suppers, etc. Have a braw wee browse.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/burns-night/
Calling all archaeology students 🎓
The Scottish Student Archaeology Society Conference takes place from the 21st - 22nd of February. Organised by University of Aberdeen Archaeology Society, the conference is a fantastic opportunity to hear new research & connect with peers 👉 tinyurl.com/8bd4eu7w
Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years.
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LEVEL VIBES: BURNS NIGHT 2026 will feature on The Arts Mix today between 3.30-4pm. Jamaica's former Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison chats about her relationship with Robert Burns and her time at Burns Ellisand Farm. Dr Stephen Mullen discusses his essay on Burns & Slavery.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Come along this Wednesday at 7pm to Saline Church Hall for January's speaker event! A warm welcome plus! homebaking awaits🍰☕
A reminder, (if you're local!) about the Community Consultation tomorrow & Saturday...
The groundbreaking public poetry project Poems on the Underground this month celebrate 40 years of sharing poetry with London commuters and travellers. Today at 4pm BBC Radio 4’s Artworks mark the anniversary with a special edition.
Follow @poemsonthetube.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This very special building is believed to be the only medieval Carmelite church that is still in use anywhere in the British Isles and is our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek. This remarkable 15th century Gothic church, in South Queensferry, was once part of a Carmelite friary, founded around 1330.
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How many of your ancestors' death records have you found? From death certificates to newspaper articles, here's how to prove when and where your ancestor died:
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
📜 January's Speaker Event
#Fife #heritage
📣 For the notice of residents in the Saline & District Area...
Our first RHS lecture of 2026 is '"Alike in Appearance but not in Scope": Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe', with Prof Charles West (Edinburgh) bit.ly/49GlmMR
6pm, Friday 6 February. In-person booking is now full but registration to attend this event online remains open #Skystorians
A brilliant thread on just a handful of Scottish #WomenWriters
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